De antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academiæ libri duo : 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.
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Londini :
In ædibus Iohannis Daij,
An. Dom. 1574. Cum gratia and priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis.
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| Item Description: | 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 pages 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 pages 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), pages 253-68. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268, [20]; [2], 27, [5] pages, plate : illustrations. |