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268, [20]; [2], 27, [5] p., plate : ill. |
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Edited by Matthew Parker. |
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Includes index. |
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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. |
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Running title reads: De antiq. Cantab. Academiæ. .. |
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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. |
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"Assertio antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiæ" by Thomas Caius has separately dated title page, pagination and register. |
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With a final blank leaf, and a non-conjugate errata leaf often not present and whose location may vary. |
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The plate shows arms and plans of the schools; it is a remainder from Matthew Parker's "De antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ". |
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Intended to be issued with Caius' "Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita" and "De pronunciatione Grecae et Latinae linguae". |
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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. |
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Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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