ext_85631 ([identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dubdobdee 2012-01-15 05:29 pm (UTC)

i) is probably JO(HN) LELAND JUNIOR (or just John Leland)

The phrase "Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland grammaticorum" appears in Buchan's The Blanket Of The Dark:

" "One of the blind eyes and dumb mouths that have Oxford for their stepmother. I have forgot what Oxford is like ... Is the hand that leads you up Parnassus that of old John Leland? Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland grammaticorum--it is so long since I heard it I have lost the jingle."

The History And Antiquities Of The University Of Oxford by Anthony Wood says:

"this verse [as above] was made upon him, which with some alteration was fastned upon Jo. Leland Junior ... it runs thus:
Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland flos fatuorum"

So it was a slightly altered version.

Google books and
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301411h.html

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