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For prose, most of the indications for the sixth and seventh forms at Winchester have perished. But Sallust is mentioned, as at Eton and Paul's. At Paul's, he had belonged with history in the sixth. In the wreckage of types of literature, Sallust became a man without a country. Eton fitted him into the fifth form, along with poetry and epistles, to serve for subject matter as Erasmus directed, and probably also by way of prelude to Tully's orations, which would begin with Catiline it seems, then as usually now. Since contemporary interest was chiefly in the speeches of Sallust and Livy, it was natural that they should be fitted into the oratorical scheme. Epistles slip down to the fourth, leaving poetry and history for the fifth. It seems to have been intended at Winchester that some work be done upon Sallust in the fifth form, as well as in the sixth and seventh. We may assume that for final work the boys would have studied Tully as a model, some book on oratory, probably Copia, for rules, and have written various forms of declamations as their exercises.
A volume in the British Museum attributed to the ownership of King Henry VIII by the MS Catalogue of old RoyalLibrary and by the binding shows quite well what types of texts were required in the rhetorical work of these schools around 1530. It consists (1) of a Latin grammar without a title page, Paris, 1529, (2) a volume, also Paris, 1529, containing the Tabulae of Mosellanus, a similar tabulation In Rhetorica Philippi Melancthonis, and another In Erasmi Roterodami Libellum de duplici Copia, and (3) a volume, Paris, 1530, Paraphrasis D. Erasnai Roterod ... in elegantioru libros L. Vallae, with an appendix. The whole volume has been well used, and has an obliterated signature at the end which might show who used it.
Here are the key works for the whole upper curriculum around 1530. The Latin grammar furnished the final stage for that study, and also the prosody for writing poetry. Mosellanus furnished the key to elocutio or rhetoric proper. The similar rhetoric of Mel anchthon furnished allied structural information on composition. It will be remembered that Leonard Cox was at this time adapting this work for English use. Another tabulation gave the key to the Copia of Erasmus. These three tabulations. give the skeleton form of the rhetorical and oratorical work of upper grammar school. The epitome of Valla by Erasmus is a kindred work on the niceties of usage. This collection makes concrete for us the statements of the curricula. Here are some of the instruments by which these instructions were executed.
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