Richard Collet d.1588

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Richard Collet d.1588

Biographical Note

BA Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1583/4, fellow 1584 and MA 1587.

Books

Collet's probate inventory includes over 70 books, valued at £5 11s 0d (from a total estate valued at £8 17s 6d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek, and they predominantly cover grammar and rhetoric, with some history, literature and other subjects. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.157 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.157/p.387-389.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.