Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the Fasti or Annals, of the said university, for the same time. The first volume, extending to the 16th year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640
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Type of record: Book
Title: Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the Fasti or Annals, of the said university, for the same time. The first volume, extending to the 16th year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640
Classmark: Large Universities E-57 WOO
Creator(s): Wood, Anthony à (1632-1695)
Additional creator(s): Bennet, Thomas (1706) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1691
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1 (8 unnumbered pages, 904 columns, 13 unnumbered pages, 906 columns, 10 unnumbered pages)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/383589
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017127839705181
Description
Attributed by Wing to Anthony à Wood.
Title pages in red and black.
Numerous columns misnumbered.
With four final leaves of index.
Two vols bound in one; separate title pages and pagination.
Title page to vol.2 bears date 1692.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) W3382.
Additional description
Wanting title-page for vol.2. Armorial bookplate of The Grove. Name Irvine Masson 1926
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