Westminster School (London) Latin Prologues & Epilogues. 1863 Fine Leather Bndng

Description: Westminster School (London) Latin Prologues & Epilogues. 1863 Fine Leather Bndng LUSUS ALTERI WESTMONASTERIENSES SIVE PROLOGI ET EPILOGI AS FABULAS IN STI PETRI COLLEGIO ACTAS QUI EXSTABANT COLLECTI ET JUSTA QUOAD LICUIT ANNORUM SERIE ORDINATI QUIBUS ACCEDIT DECLAMATIONUM QUE VOCANTUR ET EPRIGRAMMATUM DELECTUS [THE PLAY OF ANOTHER WESTMONASTERIAN or PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES of THE FABLES ACTED IN THE COLLEGE OF ST. PETER WHICH WERE COLLECTED AND ORDERED CHRONOLOGICALLY: TO WHICH ARE ADDED DECLAMATIONS AND SELECTED EPIGRAMS] Edited by James Mure, Henry Bull and Charles Broderick Scott Text in Latin with the Preface notes and glosses in English. Oxford/London, : Parker / MacMillan, 1863. Original edition. Volume 1 of two volume set. Fine binding by Sotheran. Full brown calf with gilt embossed of Westminster school seal on front, gilt decorated edges, ribbed spine with gilt decorations, remnants of spine label. Octavo (9 x 5.5 inches), marbled paper edges, xxvi, [i], 334, [1] pages. A compilation of the mostly humorous Latin prologues, epilogues and epigrams on contemporary subjects presented by the students of the Westminster School. This volume collects contributions dated from 1704 to the early 1800s. Westminster School is a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest, as documented by the Croyland Chronicle and a charter of King Offa. Continuous existence is clear from the early 14th century. Its academic results place it among the top schools nationally; about half its students go to Oxbridge, giving it the highest national Oxbridge acceptance rate. Elizabeth I refounded the school in 1560, with new statutes to select 40 King's Scholars from boys who had attended the school for a year. Queen Elizabeth frequently visited her scholars, although she never signed the statutes or endowed her scholarships; 1560 is now generally taken as the date that the school was "founded". Since the monastic Christmas revels of medieval times, Latin plays have been presented by Scholars, with a prologue and witty epilogue on contemporary events. Annual plays, "either tragedy or comedy", were required by the school statutes in 1560, and some early plays were acted in College Hall before Elizabeth I and her whole Council. However, in a more prudish age, Queen Victoria did not accompany Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales to the play, and recorded in her diary that it was "very Improper". Today, the play is put on less frequently, any members of the school may take part, and the Master of the King's Scholars gives the Latin prologue. The 1938 play caused a diplomatic incident, with the German ambassador withdrawing offended by the words Magna Germania figuring in extenso on a map of Europe displayed. CONDITION: Good+ Covers / Fine Contents. (The leather covers have moderate wear at edges and corners; the spine title label is mostly gone, the gilding is somewhat faded on the spine and is partially abraded at the board edges; the boards’ margins are lightly discolored and dried. The binding is tight and the Contents are complete, intact and clean.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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