Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison.
- Robert Christison
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Note D. P. 42. Certainly the rudiment of a university, but very im- probably a university itself, was established some time between 786 and 800, under the name of a Schola, in his palace by Charlemagne, either at Paris, or more probably in the first instance at Aix-la-Chapelle, his chief residence and capital. The circumstances are authentic, and very interesting, especially to those mainly concerned with the purpose of the inquiries in the text. A learned Anglo-Saxon theologian, a Yorkshireman of the name of Alcuin or Alchwin, happened to be at Charles’ court as commercial envoy from one of the kings of the Saxon Heptarchy, when two Scotsmen, Claud Clement and John Melrose [“ sic dictus ab oppido Maelrosio ”], also arrived at the capital in company with some English traders. Amidst the ordinary cries of the market-place, the towns- people were surprised to Jiear the Scotsmen calling out— “ Who will buy knowledge ] For we have got it to sell.” [“ Siquis sapientiae cupidus est, veniat ad nos, et accipiat earn; nam vamalis est apud nos.”] The people thought the men mad. But the incident having reached the monarch’s ears, he sent for Clement and Melrose, and asked them whether they really had knowledge to sell, and what they asked for it. They replied that they had, and that its price was—“ A place to teach it in, pupils to learn it, and needful food and raiment.” Charles came to terms with them; established a Scliola in his palace under the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22316322_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
