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Creator:
Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560
Title(s):
Syntaxis : Roberti W.L. in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati Opusculum de Syntaxi, siue co[n]structione recensitu[m]. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] n[ost]rae salutis anno. Idi. Februa. ...
Published/Created:
Londini : In aedibus Winandi Wordensis, Christi ab incarnatione, anno. xxi. supra sesquimillesimu[m] Men. Noue[m] [1521]
Physical Description:
[68] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA2075 .S736
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Imprint from colophon.
Formerly also STC 25459.
Signatures: A-G⁴·⁶.
Title page within woodcut border.
With printer's device on pages [67] and [68].
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 25548
English short title catalogue, S105838
Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525 (1968), 33
Selected exhibitions: "Fifty-five Books Printed before 1525: Representing the Works of England's First Printers, an Exhibition from the Collection of Paul Mellon" (Grolier Club, 17 January-3 March 1968).
BAC PA2075 .S736: The seventh of eight early-16th century tracts on grammar, bound together. The volume is annotated on the front flyleaf (in three separate hands): "Iste liber pertinet ad petru marti"; "Lionel Tollemache, 1621"; "This book is in [the] original binding. I found it amongst my old books at Helmingham, 1727." The last note is probably by Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart. Bound in contemporary vellum. The two vellum flyleaves at end are from a 14th-century grammatical manuscript in verse.
Subject Terms:
Latin language -- Grammar.
Tollemache, Lionel, 1591–1640 -- Autograph.
Tollemache, Lionel, 1708–1770 -- Ownership.
Contributors:
Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer.
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