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Athenae Oxonienses, 1721 (24  March  1813) Wood, Anthony àAthenae oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.C. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the Fasti, or annals, of the said University. 2nd edition corrected and enlarged. 1721
See 1802-01-11 for the 1691 edition.
WG cites the following works in his biography of Chaucer:
Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, vol. I, art. 150 (1:2).
[Ant.] Wood, Hist. & Antiq. Oxon. (1:188).
Wood, History of Colleges in Oxford, by Gutch: College of All Souls (1:485).
WG's sale catalog lists:
Wood's (Anth.) Athenae Oxonienses, with the Fasti, or Annals, 2 vol. 1721 (item 910).

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