Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre.

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1881
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Credit: Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after life may be traced to the bias which the young scholar's mind received from his earHest teacher. The Cathedral school of Canterbury within the monastery of Christ Church where Linacre became a pupil was at that time under the direction of WiUiam Tilly, otherwise called WilHam of SelHng, an Augustinian monk, and a scholar of a type at that time rare in England. OriginaHy educated at Oxford, elected a FeHow of the newly founded CoHege of AH Souls, and after- wards received as a monk in the Monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, SelHng found the means to travel in Italy, where he not only studied the Canon Law, but, what is more to the present purpose, during a stay at Bologna, studied Greek and became the pupil of Angelo PoHtiano. After two years' stay in Italy, he returned home, became Prior of Christ Church, and later on was sent as Envoy from Henry VII. to the papal court; an event which proved of great importance to Linacre. At the time of which we are now speaking, he was only Master of the Grammar School, whether appointed before or after his first journey to Italy we do not know. In any case it is clear that he had already those tastes and pursuits from which his pupil Linacre derived not only his determining impulse to the Hfe of a scholar, but especiaHy that love of Greek Hterature which runs Hke a thread through the great physician's Hfe and is the clue to much of his versatile Hterary activity. At the mature age (especiaHy according to the customs of the day) of twenty, Linacre was sent to Oxford. At what College or HaH he studied is uncertain, though it is assumed, on trivial grounds that he must have entered at Canterbury Hall. The only fact which is certain is that after four years' residence at the University, in 1484, he was elected a feHow of AH Souls' CoHege. It has been thought by Dr Noble