Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden

Added at 05:35 on 02 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald William Camden who was born #OnThisDay 2 May 1551. This is a Greek grammar which remained a standard school textbook for over a century. Camden is best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England (of which the Leighton Library has a 1630 edition). The Leighton Library also has a 1637 of his "Remaines concerning Britaine : their languages. Names. Surnames. Allusions. Anagrammes. Armories. Monies. Empreses. Apparell. Artillarie. Wise speeches. Proverbs. Poesies. Epitaphes." This was the only book he wrote in English, and was conceived as a more popular companion to what he considered his more scholarly work, Britannia. It is often the earliest or sole usage cited for a word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and contains the first-ever alphabetical list of English proverbs