Selecta Colloquiorum Maturini Corderii centuria, : ǂb Notis anglicis adspersa, et à plurimis, quae vulgares editiones infestas habent, mendis repurgata. A Gulielmo Willymott, A.M. Coll. Regal. Cantab. Socio. Usui scholarum..
Cordier, Mathurin,1479-1564.
Knibloe, Ebenezer,1729-1785,former owner.StEdNL
Slosson, Bo,former owner.StEdNL
Slosson, J. W.,former owner.StEdNL
Ruddiman, Thomas,1674-1757,printer.
Edinburgi, : In aidibus Tho. Ruddimanni.,
M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]
Unrecorded edition of an abridged version of the French-born author's Colloquia. Cordier's grammar was immensely popular across Europe with more than 150 editions appearing before 1801.
Signatures: A-F¹²
ESTC
Manuscript signature on the title page "Ebenezer Knibloe Decr. 11th A.D. 1746". Ownership signatures "Ex libris Bo Slosson" and below that "JW Slosson" on the recto of the front free endpaper. Inserted at the end is a 25-page English translation of Cordier's admonition to his students (the final chapter of the present book) prepared by Ebenezer Knibloe in his own legible hand and dated 2 June 1746. Knibloe, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, supported the losing side in the 1745 Jacobite uprising. Possibly on account of Charles Stuart's failed attempt to secure the British throne Knibloe came to the United States in the late 1740s or early 1750s, settling in Amenia Union, New York, as a Presbyterian minister. A loyalist during the American Revolution, he chose the losing side in yet another rebellion and reportedly retired from the clergy as a result.
Contemporary leather with an attached overcover of suede and alum-tawed skin, stitched together along the spine by an 18th-century owner. Occasional light staining throughout; minor worming to rear endpapers.
Latin language
Scotland Edinburgh.