The Winchester Reading Prize, endowed in 1867 by

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, is awarded at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

for the public reading of passages: * of classical English Prose and Poetry; * of the Old and

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...

and the English

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; and * of a work or portion of a work of some standard English Divine.Cambridge Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2011/chapter12-section2.html#heading2-580

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