Collectanea Definition & Meaning

Origin of Collectanea

Latin collēctānea from neuter pl. of collēctāneus collected from collēctus collect²

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Everything he published in later life may be called a commentary, an excursus or a scholium to his main book; and many of them are decidedly of the nature of commonplace books or collectanea of notes.
He was the author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, a description of curiosities in a chorographical framework.
The Collectanea was revised in the 6th century under the title of Polyhistor (subsequently taken for the author's name).
After holding a school mastership and two curacies, he was made rector of St Martin's Orgar in London in 1628, where he took a leading part in the contest between the London clergy and the citizens about the city tithes, and compiled a treatise on the subject, which is printed in Brewster's Collectanea (1752).
The next few years were spent still in preparation, supported by pupils' fees and the dedications of books; the Collectanea adagiorum in June 1500 to Mountjoy, and some devotional and moral compositions to Batt's patroness and her son.

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