Theoderic Rood

<h2 id="life-and-work">Life and work</h2>
<p>Rood came to Oxford from <a href="/facts/Cologne/U2qmyGga">Cologne</a>, bringing types (and possibly a press) with him. Once established in Oxford, he forged links with the <a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Press/CYyTzzWG">University</a> and printed a number of academic works in Latin, including John Anwykyll's <i>Compendium totius grammaticae</i> of around 1483 (known only from a single fragmentary copy at the <a href="/facts/Bodleian_Library/wxknaMJk">Bodleian Library</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
</p><p><a href="/facts/Edward_Gordon_Duff/sjlw3UMm">E. Gordon Duff</a> lists thirteen surviving editions printed by Rood.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Among these books, only two are dated, the earlier being <a href="/facts/Alexander_of_Hales/6HAkmRr8">Alexander of Hales</a>' <i>Expositio super libros Aristotelis de anima</i>, which bears a <a href="/facts/Colophon_(publishing)/7HqpSyWH">colophon</a> date of 11 October 1481, and the later John Lathbury's <i>Liber moralium super threnis Ieremiae</i> dated 31 July 1482. The other surviving editions are undated, but have been ascribed dates between 1481 and, tentatively, 1484 by Duff and Hellinga.
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>British Library. Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library. BMC, part XI, England. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graaf, 2007, pp. 234–243 <a href="/wiki/British_Library" target="_blank">/wiki/British_Library</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>E. Gordon Duff, Printing in England in the Fifteenth Century: E. Gordon Duff's bibliography [of 1917] with supplementary descriptions, chronologies and a census of copies by Lotte Hellinga. London: Bibliographical Society and British Library, 2009. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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