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The continued dominance of the medieval conception of Plato in England before 1485 is apparent even in the bare statistics regarding copies of Plato’s works. Most of the new dialogues of Plato that were brought in between 1423 and 1483 were given by their owners to libraries at Oxford; libraries elsewhere continued to own only the Calcidius Timaeus. Indeed, one of the dialogues that Whethamstede himself brought back from Italy in 1423 was a copy of the Calcidius Timaeus (Appendix 1, #1); that copy continued to be recorded in the catalogues of St. Albans.
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Jayne, S. (1995). The Relapse into Medievalism. In: Plato in Renaissance England. Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 141. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8551-4_3
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