Dear List,
Can anybody who knows about Oxford answer this query from Stuart Kinsella, archivist of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin? He is tracing connections between the two places, and has found a pun on the word "Colfabius" as it appears in cathedral records, and suspects it originated in some place like Oxford, where the name/term would have been known.
Many Regards, --Tom
"Have you ever come across this guy and do you know what
was meant by Colfabius -- was it a comedic pseudonym?
cf. 'Rodolphus Colfabius (usually identifed with Coryate) of Brasenose College,
Oxford' - I think I took this from *English wits literature
and sociability in early modern England* (2007), 195, n. 44.
I think this is the father George Coryate (d.1607) rather
than his son Thomas (d.1617) the traveller, both writers."
Thomas Herron
Department of English
East Carolina University
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Editor, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (published with Brill per 2015. More at www.brill.com/erc)
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