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- ↑ Guillaume Caoursin, trs. John Kay, [The siege of Rhodes], ([1481-4]).
- ↑ E. G. Duff thought that the type was consistent with that used by Lettou and Machlinia in the years 1482-1484. See, E. G. Duff, Fifteenth-century English Books, Bibliographical Studies (1917), p. 21.
- ↑ Leader asserts that Kay was the same person as Cauis Auberinus, however, the identification cannot at present be regarded as definitive, see Leader, Damian Riehl, 'Caius Auberinus: Cambridge's first professor' In A Distinct Voice: Studies Leonard E. Boyle (2001), pp. 322-327
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