Charles Henry

male, 150 years old
Charles Henry (1859- ?) was a French librarian and editor. He was born at Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, and was educated in Paris, where in 1881 he became...
Thomas James

Thomas James

male, deceased (1629)
Thomas James (c. 1573 - August, 1629) was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He was born at Newport, Isle of...
Nennius

Nennius

1209 years old
Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is...
Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole

male, deceased (1692)
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617-18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary, was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and...
Thomas Phillipps

Thomas Phillipps

male, deceased (1872)
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th...

Ende

female
Ende (?-?) This female manuscript illuminator worked on a 10th century group of manuscripts, of which there are 24 known copies with illustrations....
Petronius

Petronius

male, deceased (66)
Petronius was a Roman writer of the Neronian age; he was a noted satirist. He is identified with Gaius Petronius Arbiter, but the manuscript text...
Harold Innis

Harold Innis

male, deceased (1952)
Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many...
Lucian

Lucian

male, 1889 years old
Lucian of Samosata was an Assyrian-Roman rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language, noted for his witty and scoffing nature. He was...
Michael Korda

Michael Korda

male, 76 years old
Michael Korda (b. 1933 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a novelist who was Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City. He is the...