Authority Cited: Wood [Anthony]
Author name and dates: Anthony a Wood (1632-1695)
BKG Bio-tweet: Meticulous, cantankerous, musical, impoverished antiquarian and diarist; studies of local antiquities, Oxford history
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Wood cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Wood cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. Item #210 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman, is Wood's Athaenae Oxoniensis, 2v. 1722 [1721]. SJ appears to have used the 1721 2nd edition, rather than the 1692 1st edition of the title below. The entry for Farnabie in the 1st edition, on pp. 55-56, does not contain abcdarian (abecedarian in Dict.)]
Author name and dates: Anthony a Wood (1632-1695)
BKG Bio-tweet: Meticulous, cantankerous, musical, impoverished antiquarian and diarist; studies of local antiquities, Oxford history
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Wood cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Wood cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. Item #210 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman, is Wood's Athaenae Oxoniensis, 2v. 1722 [1721]. SJ appears to have used the 1721 2nd edition, rather than the 1692 1st edition of the title below. The entry for Farnabie in the 1st edition, on pp. 55-56, does not contain abcdarian (abecedarian in Dict.)]
- Athenæ 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.D. 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. By Anthony Wood, M.A. In two volumes. The second edition, very much corrected and enlarged; with the addition of above 500 new lives from the author's original manuscript. 1721, London: Printed for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson; abecedarian (abcdarian in text, vol. 2, p. 104 in 1721 2nd ed. SJ spells the name in the definition Farnaby; The text spells it Farnabie.); academian [BKG Note: many occurrences of academians in text, but none referring to a feast were identified. Both cites likely from memory.]