A lost Chinese inscribed stone, some Old Hungarian script, two notable copies of Angelo Rocca’s Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (1591), and an addition to John Donne’s library

This article discusses a lost Chinese inscribed stone known to have been in Oxfordshire in the late seventeenth century. It then proceeds to identify a hitherto unnoticed book in Oxford belonging to the poet John Donne, featuring extensive manuscript and printed inserts. Another copy of the same tex...