delectus

The Delectus consists of short pieces on various subjects, with extracts from Anglo-Saxon History and the Saxon Chronicle.

The Delectus consists of short pieces on various subjects, with extracts from Anglo-Saxon History and the Saxon Chronicle.

These were the Ainsworth and Riddle of our ancestors, who resorted to them where the required information was not forthcoming in the Primer or the Delectus.

The Coleti æditio, &c., of 1534 had much in common with Wolsey’s book; but the Dean of St. Paul’s claims the honour of having adapted some portions of the Delectus to what he considered to be the special requirements of his own institution.

Of the seventeenth-century school at Manchester we gain an accidental glimpse and notion from the Delectus of Latin Phrases which was prepared for use there by a former scholar, Thomas Bracebridge.