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de Uiris Illustribus / On Famous Men - Leland, John, and Carley, James P (Editor)
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Equipped with some sort of commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 and carried on until 1536 or shortly after, when the first dissolutions occurred. His booklists were compiled in preparation for his comprehensive dictionary of British writers entitled De uiris illustribus . This remarkable document, a proto Dictionary of National Biography , lay incomplete at Leland's death. The sole extant witness is the autograph manuscript, now Oxford, Bodleian Library ...

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de Uiris Illustribus / On Famous Men 2010, PIMS, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780888441720

Hardcover