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303:), the college librarian and university lecturer in Modern History, who saw it soon after its discovery. Marlowe finished his BA at Corpus Christi in 1584 and began his MA studies there, and it was suggested, based on his baptism date of February 1564, that he would have been aged 21 in 1585.
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which destroyed many ancient interiors. The wood panels had been used to support a gas heater installed in a student's room, above the room that had been assigned to
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Christi College, nor in a 1790 catalogue of Cambridge University's paintings by
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453:"The Pseudo-Marlowe Portrait: a wish fulfilled?"
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