Adam. 1. Formerly a jocular name for a sergeant or bailiff.

Not that Adam that kept the paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison.
--Shakespeare.

2. An aged servant to Oliver, in Shakespeare's "As You Like It."

"The serving-man Adam, humbly born and coarsely nurtured, is no insignificant personage in the drama; and we find in the healthy tone of his mind, and in his generous heart, which, under reverses and wrongs, still preserves its charitable trust in his fellows, as well as in his kindly, though frosty, age, a delightful and instructive constrast to the character of Jaques, which could hardly have been accidental."
--R. G. White.

Adam. Copyist.

Among the MSS. given by Sire Richard, clerc de Harcourt to the monks of Bonport is a copy of St. Paul's Epistles. In it the copyist has written "Adam me scripsit." Now in the National Library, Paris, MS. Lat. 302.
--L. Delisle: Le Cabinet des MSS. in Haussmann's Hist. Générale de Paris, i. 537.

A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists with references to their works, and notices of their patrons.
From the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century
Compiled from various sources many hitherto inedited by John W. Bradley
1887-1889

Rutgers University Libraries
ND2890.B83 v. 1

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Adam: a college tutor 'white-tied, clerical, silent' [Clough, Bothie of Toberna-Vuolich]

-- the aged servant of Oliver. A part supposed to have been acted by the author [Shakespeare, As You Like It].

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Who's Who in Fiction?
A Dictionary of Noted Names in Novels, Tales, Romances, Poetry, and Drama
By Helena Swan
London: George Routledge & Sons, Lim.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
[1906]

Rutgers University Libraries
PR19.S9 1975

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