Parker to imagine it might have
belonged to Theodore of Canterbury, which however Hody
was of opinion could not be of that age. "Th. Gaza,"
continues Dr. James, "died in 1478; the suggestion here
made is quite compatible with the hypothesis that Sellinge
was the means of conveying the Homer to England,
and does supply a rather welcome interpretation of the
inscription." This reasonable hypothesis may
be strengthened if we point out that Gaza was in Rome
from 1464 to 1472, and Selling visited that city between
1464 and 1467 and again in 1469. Selling may have got
the manuscript from Gaza on one of these occasions.
[1] Literae Cant. (Rolls Seh), iii. 239; cf. Campbell, Matls for
Hist. of H. VII., ii. 85, 114, 224.
[2] Leland 3, 482. The Obit in Christ Church MS. D. 12 refers
to Selling as "Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. Hic in divinis agendis
multum devotus et lingua Graeca et Latina valde
eruditus."--Gasquet 2, 24,
[3] Gasquet 2, 24; James, li.
[4] Homer and Euripides are in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
the others are in Trinity College, Cambridge.--James 16, 9;
Gasquet 2, 30.
There is evidence of Greek studies at other monasteries,
--at Westminster after 1465, when Millyng, an "able
graecian," became prior at Reading in 1499 and 1500,
and at Glastonbury during the time of Abbot Bere.
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