Collectanea sententiarum et rerum notabilium ex prestatibus autoribus

Item author: William Horman
Item date: early 16th century
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 19,500
Item date acquired: 1987
Item institution: Eton College Library
Town/City: Eton
County: Berkshire

Commonplace book by William Horman, Headmaster of Eton 1501 - 35. Contains jottings on history, chronology and geography with extensive quotations from the Latin poets. The volume may have been written out by a boy, possibly Richard Cox, later Bishop of Ely who was at Eton in 1519 and copied indexes into some of Hormans books