[Ads-l] Antedating of "Librarian"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Great find, Stephen!  Most of the early usages of the word "librarian" denote a copyist, but your 1682 citation clearly denotes the keeper of a library.


Fred Shapiro



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"He went next to the Publick Library where the Librarian Dr. Hyde welcomed him with a Speech in Arabick, and then shew'd him the great Magazine of Books, and other Rarities of the Place...."


The London Gazette. April, 1682, verso or unnumbered page 2, col. b.

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Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), at the time Librarian of the Bodleian, Oxford; some predecessors may have been similarly titled.


Stephen Goranson

At Duke Library, which has Origin of Kibosh



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librarian (OED, 2. The keeper or custodian of a library, 1713)


1702 James Kirkwood _A Copy of a Letter Anent a Project, for Erecting a Library, in Every Presbytry, or at Least County, in the Highlands_ 11 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  If any do neglect to return any Book by the time limited, the Librarian shall take care to send him notice, the charge of which message he shall pay, besides the forfeiture.


Fred Shapiro

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