Page:Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke - 1899.djvu/20

 1 8 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE

Coventry over seventy ! If the name of Leonard Cox appears in the list of the masters of the Coventry school, the conjecture may be hazarded that this was perhaps a son of our Leonard Cox bearing the same name. At all events it is evident that Cox lived on into the reign of Edward VI, under whom it is stated 1 that he was one of the licensed preachers. He left a son Francis, 2 who became a D.D. of New College, Oxford, in 1594; and according to Knight 3 another son, William, who was more likely, as others state, a grandson. Cox's name since his death has been known to few except professed antiquarians.

II. LIST OF WORKS BY COX.

(Works about'the existence of which there is considerable doubt are enclosed in brackets.)

1. Coxus, L. De laudibus Cracoviensis Academiae 8 Idus Decembris habita oratio a 1518. Cracoviae, 4, Victor. Copy in the Czartoryskische Museum in Cracow.

2. Adriani Cardinalis Venatio, una cum Scholiis non ineruditis Leonardi Coxi Britanni. [Colophon :] Cracouiae, in aedibus Hier- onymi Vietoris Typographi diligentissimi. Mense lunio. An. D. M.XXIIII [sic].

There is a copy in the British Museum and one also in the National Library at Paris. In the Dedication Cox discusses the Latinity of his author, the value of the book for reading in schools, and how it has helped to repel barbarous Latinity and to lead the way back to Cicero. There is a word in praise of Politian, who, it will be noticed, is cited also in the Rhetoric. Cox's text is merely a scholastic commentary, line by line, on Adrian's verses. At H iiij recto there is a mention of Erasmus.

3. (a) Leonardi Coxi Methodus humaniorum studiorum. Cra- coviae in aedibus Hieronymi Vietoris, ipsis Calendis Augusti Anno M.D.XXVL

Also in the same year a second edition with the same title, but the following imprint : Cracoviae in officina typographica Matthise Scharffenberg. Anno M.D.XXVL

From Panzer, Annales Typographici (Norimbergae 1798) Vol. VI, pp. 468-9. It will be noticed that the first edition is from the same printer as No. i. I have been unable to discover a copy of either edition.

1 Tanner ; Chalmers ; etc. 2 Cooper ; Wood ; etc. 3 Life of Erasmus.

�� �