Grace Book B, Vol. 1: Containing the Proctors' Accounts and Other Records of the University of Cambridge for the Years 1488-1511 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Grace Book B, Vol. 1: Containing the Proctors' Accounts and Other Records of the University of Cambridge for the Years 1488-1511

The cautions after 1500 were less often made in the form of books, and where books are mentioned in the later registers they are too often without a title. The list of books deposited as cautions becomes therefore of less value than before, but it is not without interest, inasmuch as it shows the exceedingly slow movement' of the classical revival. An astronomical instrument was once deposited as caution (p. But the usual caution was a piece of silver plate. The list of these beautiful pledges, all lost, is dismal reading, for any one of them would be priceless now.

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