Roman Catholic theological questions. Latin and Portuguese, c. 1600

Catholic controversial questions, some of them founded on the works of St Thomas Aquinas, in an unidentified hand, c. 1600. The contents are:

Catholic tract after Suarez's Disputationum. Latin, after 1606

Commentary on St Thomas Aquinas. Latin, c. 1600

Commentarius in S. Thomae / Tractatus de Conscientia. The many hands - I have counted at least nine - all date from around 1600, or perhaps a little after.

Charles Yate, Notes relating to St John's College. English and Latin, c.1840.

Charles Yate (1804-60) was a scholar of St John's College and graduated BA as sixth wrangler in 1827. He was a fellow of St John's 1829-42, serving as junior dean 1837-9. Yate took his BD degree in 1837 and was vicar of Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorks, from 1840 until his death.

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George Ashby, Collections on the History of St John’s College. English and Latin, eighteenth century

George Ashby, Fellow and President of St John’s College (1724-1808): Collection of papers relating to the history and traditions of St John’s College, Cambridge, compiled during the second half of the eighteenth century. It includes:

Jeremiah Markland, Notes on Cicero's De Oratore. Latin, c. 1750

Jeremiah Markland, Fellow of Peterhouse (1693-1776): ‘Conjecturae in III Libros Ciceronis De Oratore, Ex Editione 3a Cl. Viri Zach: Pearcii Decani Wintoniensis. Londini. MDCCXLVI' (fo. 1r). No date, but c. 1750. Book 2 begins at fo. 16r, and Book 3 at fo. 57r. Zachary Pearce (1690-1774), latterly Bishop of Rochester, first published his edition of De Oratore in 1716. The second edition followed in 1732 and the third in 1746.

Jeremiah Markland, Letters. English, 1756-75

Jeremiah Markland, Fellow of Peterhouse (1693-1776): letters to various correspondents on classical, medical and New Testament subjects. Apparently an artificial collection, although the predominance of letters to Heberden may indicate that the papers were presented by him:

Jeremiah Markland, Quaestiones Venusinae. Latin, c. 1760

Jeremiah Markland, Fellow of Peterhouse (1693-1776): ‘Quaestiones Venusinae; ad Q. Horatii Flacci Libros Carminum, Epodion, Sermonum, et Epistolarum, ex edit doctissimi Viri Ric. Bentleii, Amstel M.DCC.XIII’ (title page). No date, but c. 1760. A later, augmented and neater version of the notes in L.28.

Jeremiah Markland, Notes on Juvenal and Horace. Latin, c. 1760

Jeremiah Markland, Fellow of Peterhouse (1693-1776): ‘Stricturae in Juvenalem’ (Satires, pp. 1-49); Quaestiones Venusinae (pp. 1-70), based on Richard Bentley’s edition of Horace (Amsterdam, 1713). No date, but c. 1760.

Jeremiah Markland, Notes on the Epistles of St Paul. English, c. 1760

Jeremiah Markland, Fellow of Peterhouse (1693-1776): ‘Querys concerning some passages in the Epistles of St Paul, etc.’, c. 1760. Begins: ‘I have put down these things as they occurred to me in Reading, with a desire and design of blotting them all out (as I have done some of them) upon better information.