James Lamb (orientalist)

James Lamb (1599–1664), was an English orientalist.

Lamb was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; M.A., 1620; D.D. and prebendary of Westminster, 1660; bequeathed many of his books to the library of Westminster Abbey; manuscripts by him on oriental subjects in the Bodleian.

References

    Dictionary of National Biography


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