De antiquitate Cantabrigiensis Academiae libri duo. In quorum secundo de Oxoniensis quoq[ue] Gymnasii antiquitate disseritur, & Cantabrigiense longè eo antiquius esse definitur. Londinensi authore. Adiunximus assertionem antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiae, ab Oxoniensi quodam annis iam elapsis duobus ad Reginam conscriptam, in qua docere conatur, Oxoniense Gymnasium Cantabrigiensi antiquius esse. Vt ex collatione facilè intelligas, vtra sit antiquior.
John Caius (1510 - 1573)
Category
Books
Date
1568
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006769
Summary
Bibliographic description
352, 340b-e, 353-360, [24]; [40] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5861. Leaves 340b-e bound between p. 340-341 (Y2-Y3). Leaf B2 (p. 19-20) torn. Provenance: manuscript inscription on inside front board: "C. & P. /" [i.e. the "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]. Manuscript inscription on inside front board (facing title page): "Antiquitate" [i.e. catalogue entry for anonymous works written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions at head of title page: "A" and "Degorius: Nicolls:" [i.e. Degory Nicholls (ca. 1545-ca. 1591). Matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1560. Master of Magdalene, 1577-82. Chaplain to Lord Burghley. Rector of Lanivet (1570), St Erran (1578), Prebendary of Exeter (1579), Rector of Cheriton Fitzpaine (1581), Lanreath (1583-1591)]. Binding: sixteenth-century English blind-tooled calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; blind oval foliate and strapwork centrepiece stamp; single blind fillet along board edges; blind-tooled spine (head partially missing). Manuscript fore-edge title: "Caius".
Makers and roles
John Caius (1510 - 1573), author Thomas Caius (d.1572), author