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Record W2331689674 · doi:10.1093/notesj/gjr233

Another Source for Palmer's Two Hundred Poosees?

2012· article· en· W2331689674 on OpenAlex
David Dean

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Bibliographic record

VenueNotes and Queries · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicUndergraduate Neuroscience Education and Research
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmblemContext (archaeology)RhetoricChosePublishingHistoryClassicsLotteryLiteratureLawArtPhilosophyLinguisticsPolitical scienceMathematics

Abstract

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THOMAS Palmer's Two Hundred Poosees is now acknowledged as the earliest English emblem book, compiled some twenty years before Geffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes and Other Devises published in 1586. The contrast in their choice of title is striking: Palmer decided upon the more common English word ‘Poosees’ (posies) while Whitney opted for the more exact, but rather foreign, ‘Emblemes’. Whitney acknowledged that the word emblem was yet ‘not proper in the Englishe tonge’ and felt it required some explanation.1 Michael Bath has offered a number of reasons why Palmer chose posies for his title, and while these remain both valid and persuasive, there is an additional source that is worth noting: the use of posies in England's first state lottery held between 1567 and 1569.2 Palmer's collection remained in manuscript and it is likely that he never intended it to be printed. Bath has suggested that the volume was an exercise in rhetoric (Palmer had been the first lecturer in rhetoric at St John's College, Oxford), while John Manning notes that Palmer had no financial motive for publishing and may in any case have been disinclined to publish given that a later writer refers to his ‘bashfulness’. Both scholars acknowledge a more practical context that might have rendered publication unnecessary. Fellowships in St John's were intended for poor scholars and Palmer's inheritance of some property in Essex in 1564 caused him to lose his position. Given that he chose to dedicate his volume to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite and from 31 December 1564, Oxford's new chancellor, it seems likely that Palmer saw the manuscript merely as part of his (probably unsuccessful) campaign to regain his fellowship.3

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.484
Threshold uncertainty score0.282

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.366
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it