A woman with a key and four books standing in front of a tower with an open loggia in which a man is teaching children; representing Grammar. Engraving after Martin de Vos.

  • Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
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38933i
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[Place of publication not identified] : Crispian de Passe excud

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1 print : engraving ; image 14.4 x 8.8 cm

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Grammatica. Prima fores Sophiae, recluso limite, pando: Sc[r]ibere quae puerum rite, loquique volo. Martin de Voss inventor. Books are inscribed on top edges "Prisc." (i.e. the book is the Institutiones grammaticae of Priscian) and "Valla" (i.e. a work on grammar by either Giorgio or Lorenzo Valla)

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Wellcome Collection 38933i

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