Featuring on NeoCollect...

Cambridge University - Browne Medal

Visible in communities: Medal Collectors

Representative Images

in British School Medals (currently in collection)

1774 (1808). Gold. Obverse: Bust of Sir William Browne facing left, surrounded by Latin legend, ESSE ET VIDERI above and D. GVLIELMVS BROWNE. EQVES. NAT III. NON. IAN. A. I. MDCXCII. in two lines below. Reverse: Apollo seated on a dias, placing a laurel crown on the head of a kneeling robed scholar, with the legend SVNT SVA PRAEMIA LAVDI above, and ELECTVS COLL. MED LOND PRAESES A.S. MDCCLXV below exergue.

Three Browne medals were created by the will of Sir William Browne, who died in 1774. Browne had become the president of the College of Physicians in London in 1765. According to Erlanger, three medals were given annually in gold - one each for the best Greek ode in imitation of Sappho, the best Latin ode in imitation of Horace, and the best Greek and Latin epigram after the manner of the Anthology and Martial. The medals were first awarded in 1774 and given for several years, thought the later ones appear to have been awarded in gilt silver.

Item record created Sept. 20, 2011.
Viewed 494 times.
item record in VRA Core 4.0