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[Accide[n]tia]. London: Richard Pynson, [c.1523].
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STANBRIDGE, John (1463-1510)
[Accide[n]tia]. London: Richard Pynson, [c.1523].
Rare Pynson edition of a Latin grammar in English: one of only two copies known, the other being at the Crediton Parish Library, Exeter. John Stanbridge was one of the ‘Magdalen grammarians’ associated with the Magdalen School at Oxford from the 1480s. His Accidence, first published by Pynson between 1499 and 1505, is part of a group of early printed Latin grammars in English that were ‘widely used for teaching elementary Latin grammar in the vernacular in the grammar schools of early Tudor England’ (Gwosdek, Early Printed Editions of the Long Accidence and Short Accidence Grammars). STC 23148.4.
Quarto (170 x 114mm). 11 leaves (of 16, lacking all before a6). (Trimmed into text at fore-edge, faint dampstaining, some small wormholes.) 19th-century green morocco (extremities rubbed). Provenance: contemporary annotations on b3v – 19th-century autograph letter loosely inserted regarding Dibdin’s description of a similar work in the Heber collection – C. J. Spence, North Shields (1848-1905; his sale, Sotheby’s 6 November 1906, lot 485; pencil inscription recording purchase by Quaritch for £1-18-0) – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon (inscription dated 1950, red leather bookplate).
[Accide[n]tia]. London: Richard Pynson, [c.1523].
Rare Pynson edition of a Latin grammar in English: one of only two copies known, the other being at the Crediton Parish Library, Exeter. John Stanbridge was one of the ‘Magdalen grammarians’ associated with the Magdalen School at Oxford from the 1480s. His Accidence, first published by Pynson between 1499 and 1505, is part of a group of early printed Latin grammars in English that were ‘widely used for teaching elementary Latin grammar in the vernacular in the grammar schools of early Tudor England’ (Gwosdek, Early Printed Editions of the Long Accidence and Short Accidence Grammars). STC 23148.4.
Quarto (170 x 114mm). 11 leaves (of 16, lacking all before a6). (Trimmed into text at fore-edge, faint dampstaining, some small wormholes.) 19th-century green morocco (extremities rubbed). Provenance: contemporary annotations on b3v – 19th-century autograph letter loosely inserted regarding Dibdin’s description of a similar work in the Heber collection – C. J. Spence, North Shields (1848-1905; his sale, Sotheby’s 6 November 1906, lot 485; pencil inscription recording purchase by Quaritch for £1-18-0) – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon (inscription dated 1950, red leather bookplate).
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