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Record Nr.

UNISA996390294403316

Autore

Caius John <1510-1573.>

Titolo

De antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academiæ libri duo [[electronic resource] ] : Aucti ab ipso authore plurimùm. In quorum secundo de Oxoniensis quoq[ue] Gymnasii antiquitate disseritur, & Cantabrigiense longè eo antiquius esse definitur. Iohanne Caio Anglo authore. Adiunximus assertionem antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiæ, ab Oxoniensi quodam annis iam elapsis aliquot ad Reginam Elizabeth. conscriptam, in qua docere conatur, Oxoniense Gymnasium Cantabrigiensi antiquius esse. Vt ex collatione facilè intelligas, vtra sit antiquior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini, : In ædibus Iohannis Daij, An. Dom. 1574. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis

Descrizione fisica

268, [20]; [2], 27, [5] p., plate : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

CaiusThomas <d.1572>

ParkerMatthew <1504-1575.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Edited by Matthew Parker.

Includes index.

Title page exists in the following states, listed chronologically. 1: title page is conjugate, worded as above but with "annis iam elapsis duobus" and "Iohanne Caio Britanno authore". 2a: title page is a cancel, worded as above with "annis .. aliquot" and "Iohanne Caio Anglo"; verso blank. 2b: as 2a, but verso contains text. 3: title page is a cancel, with woodcut border surrounding title, quoted in full, "De antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academiæ libri duo. Iohanne Caio Anglo authore.". The latter was printed for presentation to King James in 1615, but more than one copy exists.

Running title reads: De antiq. Cantab. Academiæ. ..

Leaves I2 and T2 are cancels, with catch words on p. 67 "gio" and a 2-line side note on p. 148. Cancellanda I2 and T2 have catchword on p. 67 "re-" and a 4-line side note on p. 148.

"Assertio antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiæ" by Thomas Caius has separately dated title page, pagination and register.

With a final blank leaf, and a non-conjugate errata leaf often not



present and whose location may vary.

The plate shows arms and plans of the schools; it is a remainder from Matthew Parker's "De antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ".

Intended to be issued with Caius' "Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita" and "De pronunciatione Grecae et Latinae linguae".

See Henry R. Plomer, "The 1574 edition of Dr. John Caius's De antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academiæ libri duo". Library 7 (Dec. 1926), p. 253-68.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113