The two previous editions of Grotius’s work were issued at Leyden in 1617, while Vossius’s Responsio was published at the same place in 1618. Words underlined in the above title are in red ink, as are also “Oxoniæ,” and “MDCXXXVI” in the imprint. N is omitted in the series of signatures.
10. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ: | A | LITTLE | DESCRIPTION | OF THE GREAT | WORLD. | The seventh Edition. | [line] | By Peter Heylyn. | [line, motto, woodcut.]
Impr. 158: 1636: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [20] + 808 + [4]: p. 11 beg. 1. First then, 701 dates, or Vindelici: Pica Roman. Contents:—(precisely as 1633 H, except that the title is within double lines, instead of an arched border, and that every leaf has been seen.)
See 1621 H. This is a reprint, almost line for line, of 1633 H. The copy seen had a folded table of climes as in the 1625 edition, after p. 228.
11. [Lily, William]. A | Short Introduction | OF | GRAMMAR | GENERALLY | TO BE USED: | Compiled and set forth for the bring-|ing up of all those that intend to at-|taine to the knowledge of the | Latine tongue. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 68 d: 1636: (eights) 12o: pp. [74] + 130 + [36]: p. 11 beg. comprehenderunt, 111 Sic Ovid: Long Primer Roman and English. Contents:—p. (1), title: (2) royal arms, with “C.R.”: (3–8) “¶ To the Reader, &c.”: (9) about letters: (10) two prayers: (11–70) a Latin grammar in English: (71–2) Latin poem by Will. Lily: (73) a title within a line and border:—“Brevissima | institutio, | Seu | Ratio Grammatices | cognoscendæ, ad omni-|um puerorum utilita-|tem præscripta: Quam solam Regia Majestas | in omnibus Scholis do-|cendam præcipit. | [line, woodcut, line]”, with impr. 72 c: (74) arms of the University, &c.: 1–130, a Latin grammar, syntax and prosody, in Latin: (1–30) “Omnium nominum ... ac verborum interpretatio ...”: (31–3) four Latin poems, including graces: (34) woodcut picture of the tree of knowledge, and students gathering the fruit.
This is the first Latin grammar printed at Oxford since 1518, and is issued “Cum Privilegio.” The grammar itself was already, in its Latin form, more than a hundred years old, and many editions of it had been printed. Other Oxford editions were issued at least in 1651, 1672–3, 1675, 1679, 1687, 1692, 1699, 1709, 1714, 1733. For William Lily see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 32. The signatures connect the two parts of the book.
The importance of this issue is considerable. In consequence of disputes between
John Lichfield and Turner, archbp. Laud’s attention had been called to the state of
printing at Oxford, and the absence of any such printing privileges as were possessed
by Cambridge. A charter of privileges was accordingly obtained, dated 12 Nov. 1632,
confirmed and amplified by another dated 13 March 1632
3. These allowed the
University to print Bibles, Prayerbooks, Grammars, Almanacs, &c., which had till then
been the monopolies of the London Stationers’ Company and the University Press at
Cambridge. No Bibles or Prayerbooks were issued at Oxford till 1675, but this
Grammar and three Almanacs (see 1637 B, C, and W.) raised the standard of revolt
against monopoly. On 20 March 1636
7 the Stationers’ Company agreed to pay the
University £200 a year, if it would agree not to issue the classes of books in question,
and no further difficulties arose till after the Restoration.
12. Longinus, Dionysius. ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ | ΛΟΓΓΙΝΟΥ | ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ ΠΕΡΙ | ὕψους λόγου βιβλίον | DIONYSII LONGINI | Rhetoris | Præstantissimi | Liber | De grandiloquentia sive | sublimi dicendi genere | Latine redditus | ὑποθέσεσι συνοπτικαῖς | et ad oram notationibus | aliquot illustratus | [line] | Edendum curavit et notarum | insuper auctarium adjunxit. G. L. | [line.]
Impr. 112a: 1636: (eights) 12o: pp. [42] + 176 + [2] + 117 + [1] and one folded plate: pp. 11 beg. ἐκ τοῦ φοβεροῦ, and qui Geometriæ: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) engraved title, see below: (5–10) “Iuventuti Academicæ”, signed “Gerardus Langbaine”, the editor: (11–24) complimentary Latin pieces by Gabriel de Petra, the author of the Latin translation and notes, 1610, and others: (24–42) three Latin prefatory pieces, about Longinus: a folded oblong 16mo sheet bearing a Diagramma or synopsis of the subject: 1, extract from Suidas about Longinus: 2–161, the treatise in Greek and (on the verso of each leaf) Latin, with marginal notes: 162–176, (1–2) Συνόψεις, further notes: 1–117, (1) “Notarum auctarium” with a critical preface, and (on p. 20) an engraving: ending with a Latin poem on the death of Thomas “Wethereld” (Wetherell) of Queen’s college Oxford.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 446, and 1638 L. The first part of this volume to the end of the Συνόψεις except Langbaine’s preface, is a reprint of the 1612 (Geneva) edition by Gabriel de Petra: the notes are Langbaine’s first published work. The engraved title by William Marshall is from a metal plate, displaying Hermes, an eagle, Phaethon, &c., round the title: and is an inserted leaf. Signatures O and P are run into one. The date on the title appears to be that of the engraving, but as it was altered in the 2nd edition, though the plate is practically identical, it may be taken as the date of the book also.
13. Masque. THE | KING | AND | QVEENES | Entertainement at | RICHMOND. | AFTER | THEIR DEPARTVRE | from Oxford: In a Masque, | presented by the most Illustrious | Prince, | PRINCE | CHARLES | Sept. 12. 1636. | [motto, then line.]
Impr. 152: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Tom. Vellow: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title, within a border of woodcuts between lines: 3, dedication to the queen: 5–30, the masque.
Rare. The introduction explains that the Masque was almost impromptu as concerns the speaking, the dances in which Prince Charles took a share being the important part. They were composed by Simon Hopper and the music by Charles Coleman. Most of the written part is in the Wiltshire dialect “because most of the interlocutors were Wilshire men.”
14. Oxford University. CORONAE | CAROLINÆ | QVADRATVRA. | SIVE | PERPETRANDI | IMPERII | CAROLINI | EX QVARTO PIGNORE | FELICITER SVSCEPTO | Captatum Augurium. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 151 a: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [92], signn. a, aa4, aaa2, aaaa, a-d4, e2, A-C4, D2, and a folded leaf: sign. b1r beg. Diva paris, B1r From the wombs: English Roman. Contents:—sign. a1r, title: a2r-e2v, Latin poems: A1r-D1v, English poems to the queen: D2r “The Printers vote”, an English poem by Leonard Lichfield.
Poems by members of the University of Oxford on the birth of Princess Elizabeth, 28 Dec. 1635: in number about 142, of which 31 are English, 8 Greek, 2 Hebrew and 1 French. The number of English, and their separation from the rest is a mark of change. Most copies want the folded sheet (about 11 × 6 in.), which contains an engraved picture of a crown on a board supported at the four corners by a prince, two princesses and an infant in a cradle, all upon a large pedestal. Beneath are six Latin verses, beginning “Quam stabilis Quadrata,” and then “Ita augustissimo Domino suo vovet humillima ancilla Acad. Oxon.” Curiously the engraving cannot possibly be correct, since the place of prince James is taken by a female figure! Perhaps for this reason the plate was soon suppressed: it is certainly now very rarely found.
15. ——. FLOS | BRITANNICVS | VERIS NOVISSIMI | FILIOLA | CAROLO & MARJÆ | NATA | XVII MARTII Anno. | M.DC.XXXVI. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 151b: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [100], see below: p. (11) beg. Non habeo: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border of woodcuts: (3–100) the poems.
These are poems by members of the University of Oxford to celebrate the birth of
the princess Anne, born 17 Mar. 1636
7 (died Dec. 1640). About two-thirds of the
verses are to the king, chiefly in Latin (nine in Greek, one in Hebrew), the rest to the
queen in English (two in French): there is one chronogram. The make-up of ordinary
copies of the volume is extraordinary: there are no pages or signatures, but if A-O
represent the sections the collation would be as follows, the figures in brackets indicating
the mark affixed to the first page of some sections in the place where the pagination
would naturally have been printed:—A1, B4, C4 (1), D4 (2), E4 (3), F4 (4), G4 (6),
H4 (66: on 2nd leaf, 8). I4 (5), K1, L4 (2), M4, N4 (1), O4 (3)! The last page contains
a poem by the printer, Leonard Lichfield. I have seen a copy in which a leaf following
the title bore a printed Latin poem beginning “Quæ Te Mascula” referring to an
emblem in diamond form displaying three lilies and two small and one large lion;
which emblem occurs in a pen-and-ink drawing in the above copy on an inserted leaf
preceding the title.
16. Parsons, Bartholomew. A | SERMON | PREACHED | AT | THE FVNERALL OF | Sr Francis Pile Baronet, at | Collingborne Kingstone in the | County of Wiltes, on the 8. day of | December. 1635. | BY | Bartholomew Parsons | B.D. and Vicar there. | [two mottos, then woodcut.]
Impr. 154: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 39 + [1]: p. 11 beg. there is a: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir Francis Pile, “From Ludgershall. Dec. 17. 1635”: 1–39, the sermon, on Is. lvii. 1–2.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 26. The dedication to the son shows that Parsons had known the father for 20 years.
17. Pinke, William. THE TRIALL OF | A | CHRISTIANS | SINCERE .LOVE | VNTO CHRIST. | By Mr William Pinke, | Mr of Arts late Fellow of | Magdalen Colledge | in Oxford. | [motto, then line] | The third Edition. | [line, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 160: 1636: (twelves) 16o: pp. [16] + 54 + 127 + [1] + 62 + [4]: pp. 11 beg. lat. 3. 13, and shrewd grudgings, and vnto you what: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (14) title: 3–11 Epistle dedicatory to lord Digby, dated “Shirburn. Iul. 7. 1630”, by the editor William Lyford: (12–16) “To the reader” by W. Lyford: 1–54, sermon on 1 Cor. xvi. 22: 1–66, 67–127, two sermons on Eph. vi. 24: (1), 1–62, (1), sermon on Luke xiv. 26.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 475, and 1630 P.
18. Prideaux, John. “Twenty Sermons. Oxon 1636 qu.” [Bodl. 4to. P. 50. Th.]
So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 268. There may have been a collected edition with some such title issued in 1636: but probably Wood refers to a collection without a general title, as contained in 40o P. 50 Th. (a reference added however to Wood’s Athenæ by dr. Bliss). For a real titlepage to the collection of twenty sermons and for details of the separate sermons, all of which are dated 1636, see 1637 P.
19. Wouwerus, Joannes. Ioannis WouWERI | DIES ÆSTIVA, | Sive | DE VMBRA | PÆGNION. | Unà cum | lani Dousæ F. in ean-|dem Declamatione. | [line] | Editio postrema castigatior, | & adjectionibus in fine | locupletior. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 153a: 1636: (twelves) 16o: pp. [24] + 156 + [24]: p. 11 beg. interpositionem, 111 riosos interemit: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–12) dedication to Hieronymus Voeglerus, dated “Ex arce Gottorpiana V. Kal. Augusti CIↃ IↃ CX. T. Ioan. VVouwerus”: (13–23) “... Prolegomena”: 24 “Errata”: 1–124, the work in 28 chapters: 124–154, Dousa’s Declamatio: 154–156, Dousa’s “In eandem rem Carmen”: (1–4) “Index auctorum”: (5–22) “Rerum memorabilium Index.”
This appears to be a reprint of the first (1610) edition omitting the Elenchus Capitum and adding Dousa’s Essay. The work is a fanciful treatment of the subject of shadow.
20. Zouche, Richard. ELEMENTA | IVRISPRVDENTIÆ | DEFINITIONIBVS, | Regulis, & sententiis selectioribus | Iuris Civilis illustrata. | Quibus accessit | DESCRIPTIO | IVRIS & IVDICII | TEMPORALIS | Secundum Consuetudines | Feudales & Normannicas. | Nec non | DESCRIPTIO | IVRIS & IVDICII | ECCLESIASTICI | SECVNDVM CANONES | & Constitutiones Anglicanas. | [line] | Autore R.Z. P.R. Oxoniæ. |[line.]
Impr. 157: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 145 + [7] + 51 + [7] + 60 + [2]: pp. 11 beg. pars secunda, pars secunda, and riæ ex fructibus: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines separated by woodcuts: (3–4) dedication to archbp. Laud, signed “Ric. Zouchæus”: (5–7) “Iuventuti iurisprudentiæ studiosæ”, dated “ex Aulâ Alban. Pridie Calend. Aug. 1636”: (9–12) list of parts and sections of the book: 1–145 the work: (2) a title, within lines:—“DESCRIPTIO | IVRIS & IVDICII | TEMPORALIS | SECVNDVM CON-|SVETUDINES FEV-|DALES ET | Normannicas”. | [line, device, line, and impr. 157]: (4–6) list of parts &c.: 1–51, the work: (2) a title, within lines:—DESCRIPTIO | JVRIS & JVDICII | ECCLESIASTICI | SECVNDVM CANONES | & CONSTITUTIONES | Anglicanas. [line, device, line, and impr. 157]: (4–7) list of parts, &c.: 1–60, the work: (1) note of parts still wanting to the complete treatise, and “Errata”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 511. This is a reissue and enlargement of 1629 Z and 1634 Z, carrying the scheme further: it was completed in 1640 and 1650, and several parts have been reprinted. The signatures weld the three parts of the present volume into one.
* *
* The Almanacs by Booker and Wyberd, which bear 1637 on the
titlepage, and are treated under that year, may have been issued late in
1636.
1637.
1. Barlow, bp. Thomas. PIETAS IN PATREM, | OR | A FEW TEARES VPON | THE LAMENTED DEATH OF | HIS MOST DEARE, AND LOVING | Father Richard Barlow, late of | Langill in VVestmooreland, who dyed | December 29 Ann. 1636. | [line] | By Thomas Barlow Master of Arts, | Fellow of Queenes Coll. in Oxon: and | eldest sonne of his deceased father. | [line, motto, woodcut.]
Impr. 119: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 16 + [2]: p. 11 beg. To the sad: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) Τοῦ Παλλαδᾶ εἰς Θάνατον, a four-line Greek epigram, beg. Σῶμα πάθος ψυχῆς: 1–16, English poems, five by T. Barlow, seven by relations and friends.
Rare. Barlow’s second poem describes his dream of his father’s death at the very time of its occurrence, though he did not know of the illness. The impression was strong enough to wake him.
2. Bense, Petrus. ANALOGO-DIAPHORA, | Seu | Concordantia Discrepans, | & Discrepantia Concordans | trium Linguarum, | Gallicæ, Italicæ, & Hispanicæ. | Unde innotescat, quantum quæque à Romanæ lin-|guæ, unde ortum duxere, idiomate deflexerit; | earum quoque ratio & natura dilucidè & suc-|cinctè delineantur. | [line] | Operâ & studio | Petri Bense Parisini apud | Oxon: has linguas profitentis. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 98: 1637: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 72: p. 11 beg. quibuscumque: Pica Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2) not seen: (3) title: (5–8) dedication to the University of Oxford: 1–72, the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 624. This is not a formal grammar, but rather a discussion of the resemblances and differences of the languages treated in points of grammar and syntax.
3. Booker, John. ALMANACK: | Sivè | Prognosticon Astrologicum, | & Diarium Meteorologicum, | Vel | Speculum Anni | M. DC. XXXVII. | [line] | Being the first after leap yeare. | [line] | Calculated for the Meridian of the | Honourable Citie of London. | [line] | Autore Johanne Bookero Astroph. | [line, motto, line.]
Impr. 171: 1637: (eights) 16o: pp. (48), signn. A-C8: sign. B1r beg. Saturne doth: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A1r title, within border: A1v-A4r, preliminary notes: A4v-B8r, the Almanac: B8v-C8v, astrological notes and prognostications, with a chronogram.
John Booker was a prolific Almanac maker: his Almanac and Prognostication was
issued from 1631 to 1649: his Celestial Observations from 1651 to 1662, and the
Telescopium from 1659 to 1676, but the dates may be capable of extension, and as
Booker died in 1667, the Telescopium must have been carried on by a successor under
his name. Only this one issue was printed at Oxford, since the Stationers’ Company
bought out the University’s right of printing this and certain other kinds of book in
March 1636
7, see 1636 L, and Booker, Wyberd below. The underlined words in the
title are printed in red, as well as much of the woodcut border (which bears the signs
of the zodiac, the royal arms, and an open book), the words “Oxford,” “to the famous
Universitie. 1637.” in the imprint, and many words in the text. The same astrological
woodcut occurs as in the Wyberd, but in a more injured state, showing that Wyberd had
precedence in point of date. Booker’s Almanac for 1636 was printed at Cambridge.
4. Brerewood, Edward. TRACTATVS | QVIDAM LOGICI | DE | PRÆDICABILIBVS, | ET | PRÆDICAMENTIS | Ab eruditissimo Edvardo Brerewood, | Artium Magistro, è Collegio Ænei-Nasi, olim | conscripti: nunc verò ab erroribus (qui frequenti | transcriptione irrepserant) vindicati, ad pristinum nito-|rem, nativámque puritatem diligentissimâ manu-|scriptorum collatione restituti, & in lucem editi: | Per T. S. Art. Mag. & Collegij Ænei-Nasi Socium . Editio tertia, | In quâ accesserunt duo ejusdem Authoris insignes | Tractatus; prior de Meteoris, posterior de | Oculo: limâ, lucéque donati: | Per eundem T. S. | [line, motto, woodcut.]
Impr. 162: 1637: (eights) 12o: pp. [32] + folded sheet + 431 + [5] + 105 + [3] + 26: pp. 11 begg. Sol. Prædicabilia, and Sect. 11. In qua and 2. In quo devehuntur: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—[exactly as 1631 B to p. 431, except “ê” for “e”, “Cal.” for “Calend.”: then:—] p. (2) a title:—“TRACTATVS DVO, | Quorum primus est | DE METEORIS. | Secundus, DE OCVLO. | Quos scripsit olim eximius ille philosophus | Edvardus BrerewooduS: | Restituit tandem, ab erroribus mendisque | vindicavit, & publici juris fecit | T.S. | Art. Mag. & Colleg. Ænea=Nasensis | Socius | [woodcut] |” with impr. 109, but no name of place: (4) dedication as 1631 B: 1–83, De Meteoris: 84–105, De Mari: (1–2) woodcut diagrams of the eye: (3) Index: 1–26, De Oculo.
See 1628 B, 1631 B (of which this is a reprint), Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 140. The signatures connect the two divisions of this work.
5. Burgersdicius, Francon. IDEA | PHILOSOPHIÆ | TuM | MORALIS, | TuM | NATURALIS: | Sive | EPITOME COMPENDIOSA | utriusque ex Aristotele excerpta, | & methodicè disposita: | A | M. Franc. BuRGERSDICIO in | Academia Lugduno-Batavâ, Logices & | Ethices Professore ordinario. | Editio quarta prioribus castigatior. | [line.] |
Impr. 121: 1637: (twelves) 16o: pp. [4] + 332 + [6] + 101 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. strictiore quâdam and 2. Natura est, 211 rem quærunt: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Index Capitum & titulorum ...” to the Idea Phil. Mor.: 1–332, the Idea Philosophiae Moralis: (1) title:—“Franconis BuRGERSDICI | IDEA | PHILOSOPHIÆ | NATVRALIS: | Sive | Methodus definitionum & con/|troversiarum Physicarum. | Editio postrema.” [woodcut, then Impr. 121]: (3–4) “Philosophiæ Studiosis”, signed “Franco Burgersdicius”: (5–6) “Tituli et Ordo disputationum”: 1–101, the Idea Philosophiae Naturalis.
See 1631 B, of which this is almost a reprint, the order of the two parts being reversed.
6. Buridanus, Johannes. IOHANNIS | BVRIDANI | PHILOSOPHI | TRECENTIS RETRO | annis celeberrimi | QVÆSTIONES IN | DECEM LIBROS | ETHICORVM | ARISTOTELIS | AD NICOMACHVM. | [device.]
Impr. 168: 1637: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 889 + [1]: p. 13 beg. ad ea quæ, 701 alii prodesse: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–11) “Index quæstionum”: (12) “Typographus ad Lectores” and “Errata”: 1–889, the work in four books: 889, impr. 151.
This is perhaps the last separate edition of this work. Buridan, who lived in the fourteenth century, was a disciple of the English philosopher Occam.
7. Bythner, Victorinus. TABVLA DIRECTORIA. | In qva | TOTVM ΤΟ ΤΕΧΝΙΚΟΝ LINGVÆ | Sanctæ, ad amussim delineatur. | QuAM | ... [2 lines] | D. HENRICO WOTTON | ... [2 lines] | inscribit Author | Victorinus Bythner. P. |
Impr. 98a: 1637: la. 4o, see below: pp. [6], see below: col. 1 beg. 1 Verba vel Nomina: English Roman. Contents, see below.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 675. These are three rare sheets printed on the recto only and intended to be pasted together, the two lower about 14 in. high by 18½ in. wide, the upper one about 7 × 18½ in. The two lower ones contain in five columns a Hebrew grammar in nine divisions, the upper one “Chaldaismi & Syriacismi,” between which is the title, and below them the preface “Lectori benevolo.” The colophon is at the end of the last column. The underlined words in the above title are in red, as well as a few other words, including a chronogram.
8. Carpenter, Nathanael. PHILOSOPHIA | LIBERA, | [&c.]: see 1636 C.
Clement of Rome. References to a supposed edition of Clemens Romanus in 1637, a reprint of the edition of 1633, are due to a confusion: the 1633 edition alone exists.
9. Comenius, Johannes Amos (Komensky). CONATVVM | COMENIANORVM | PRAELVDIA | EX BIBLIOTHECA S. H. | [device.]
Impr. 72: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 52 + [6]: p. 11 beg. Tertiò, portento: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Ad lectorem”, signed “Samuel Hartlibius”: (5) title:—“PORTA SAPIENTIAE | RESERATA: | Sive | PANSOPHIÆ CHRISTIANÆ | SEMINARIVM. | Hoc est, | Nova, compendiosa, & solida omnes Sci-|entias & Artes, & quicquid manifesti vel occulti | est, quod ingenio humano penetrare, solertiæ imitari, | linguae eloqui datur, breviùs, veriùs, meliùs, quàm | hactenus, addiscendi Methodus. | [line] | Auctore | Reverendo Clarissimóque Viro | Domino Iohanne Amoso Comenio. | [line, 2 mottos, woodcut.]”, with impr. 72d: (6) a motto: 1–52, the work: (1–6) “Præcipua Capita Didacticæ Magnæ, à Domino Comenio elaboratæ ...”
This is a kind of prospectus of the encyclopædic work on education which Comenius was at the time contemplating, and although issued by Hartlib without the permission of the author, partly in order to gather the opinions of scholars on the scheme, it was not displeasing to Comenius, especially since some of his critics suggested a Collegium Pansophicum to work out the details. This we learn from an appendix by Comenius to the reprint of this Oxford edition in vol. i. of his Opera didactica omnia (Amst. 1657), vol i. col. 403, cf. 454.
10. Cowper, Thomas. Cowper 1637. | AN | ALMANACK | for the yeare of our | Lord 1637. | [line] | Being the first after leap-yeare. | [line] | Together with some astrologicall rules | for the prediction of weather for each | day in the yeare: with the principall High-wayes in England and | Wales. | [line] | Referred to the famous Universitie and | Citie of Oxford; but may indiffe-|rently serve for any other place within | this Kingdome. | [line] | By Thomas Cowper. | [line, motto, line.]
Impr. 68d: 12o: Pica Roman: title within a border of lines and woodcuts.
Very rare. Only known from a titlepage in Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5937, no. 140. See note under Booker above. The underlined words in the title above are printed in red ink, as well as “Oxford,” and “the famous Universitie. 1637” in the imprint, and some words in the “Vulgar Notes” on the back of the title.
11. Deliciae deliciarum. DELITIÆ | DELITIARVM | SIVE | EPIGRAMMATVM | optimis quibusq; hujus & no-|vissimi seculi poetis in amplissimâ | illâ Bibliothecâ | Bodleiana, | Et penè omninò alibi extantibus | ἀνθολογία, in unam corollam connexa | [line] | Operâ Ab. Wright Art. Bac. | & S. Ioan. Bapt. Coll. Socii. | [line, then motto.]
Impr. 166: 1637: 12o: [16] + 247 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Tale tamen, 201 De Virgilio: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–8) dedication to dr. Will. Haywood, the editor’s tutor: (9–11) “Lectori”: (13–15) “Catalogus Auctorum”: 1–247, the epigrams: 247, Errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iv. 276. Wright took his M.A. degree on April 22, 1637. Unfortunately there is no indication of the source of each epigram, and almost all the authors are continental poets.
12. Fitz-Geffry, Charles. COMPASSION | TOWARDS CAPTIVES, | CHIEFLY | Toward our Brethren and Country-men | who are in miserable bondage | in BARBARIE. | Vrged and pressed in three Sermons | On Heb. 13. 3. | [line] | Preached in PLYMOVTH, in October 1636. | By Charles Fitz-Geffry. | [line] | Whereunto are anexed | An Epistle of St Cyprian concerning the Redemption | of the Bretheren from the bondage of Barbarians; | AND | A passage concerning the benefits of Compassion, extracted | out of St Ambrose his second booke of Offices, Cap. 28. | [motto.]
Impr. 160 a: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 50 + [10]: p. 11 beg. heaven, but: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to John Cause mayor of Plymouth, &c.: (7–12) “To the compassionate, that is, to the truly Christian Reader”: 1–19, 21–35, 37–50, the three sermons: (1–4) the Cyprian: (5–7) the Ambrose.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 607.
13. Ironside, dr. Gilbert. SEVEN | QVESTIONS | OF THE | SABBATH | BRIEFLY DISPVTED, | after the manner of the | SCHOOLES. | Wherein such cases, and scruples, as are | incident to this subject, are cleared, and resolved, | [line] | By Gilbert Ironside B.D. | [line, two mottos, woodcuts.]
Impr. 156 a: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [24] + 297 + [3]: p. 11 beg. may see, 201 speaks, were: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–12) Epistle dedicatory to archbp. Laud: (13–18) “To the Reader”: (19–23) “The severall Chapters with their Contents”: 1–297, the work, in 31 chapters: (2) Note and “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 939. The note before the Errata shows that the author saw no proofs of his book for “the Authors coppy being not so legible as we could have wished, we were forc’d to transcribe it in his absence, and by this means these grosser escapes hapned.”
14. Jackson, Thomas. DIVERSE | SERMONS, | WITH A SHORT | TREATISE | BEFITTING THESE | PRESENT TIMES, | Now first published | BY | Thomas Iackson, Dr in Divinity, | Chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, | and President of Corpus Christi Col-|ledge in Oxford. | [note, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 152: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 51 + [3] + 70 + [2] + 96 (but 29–34 are numbered 1–6) + [2]: pp. 11 begg. as no souldier, and whatsoever afflictions, and of his owne: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within double lines: (5–6) dedication to prince Charles: (7–8) “Errata”, with sub-titles: 1–25, 27–51, 2 sermons on 2 Chron. vi. 39–40: (2) a title:—“THREE | SERMONS | PREACHED | BEFORE THE | KING, | Vpon Ier. 26. 19 | ... [4 lines, then device and impr. 152]”: 1–70, the sermons: (1) a title:—“A | TREATISE | CONCERNING | THE SIGNES OF | THE TIME, OR GODS | FOREWARNINGS. | CONTAINING | The summe of some few Sermons delive-|red partly before the Kings Majesty partly | in the Towne of New-Castle | upon Tine. | [woodcut, then impr. 152]”: 1–70, three discourses: 71, a title:—“A | SERMON | OR | POSTILL | PREACHED IN NEWE/ | CASTLE VPON TINE | The second Sunday in | Advent 1630. | [woodcut, then impr. 152]”: 73–93, the sermon, on Luke xxi. 25: 94–96, “A briefe Appendix ...”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 668. The signatures connect all the parts of this volume together. Every printed page is surrounded by double lines on the upper and outer margin, and a single line elsewhere.
15. Parsons, Bartholomew. HONOS | & ONVS Levitarum. | OR, | Tithes vindicated to the | Presbyters of the Gospel: | In a Sermon preached at an Archidiaco/|nall Visitation at Marlebrough, in the Diocese | of Sarum, on the 10. of October. 1636. | [line] | By B. P. | [line, 3 mottos, line, device, line].
Impr. 169: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. deny, but he: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatory to Sir William Doddington “from the Rectory of Ludgershall, in the county of Wiltes, June 7, 1637.”: 1–31, the sermon, on Deut. xxxiii. 11.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 26. In the copy seen the title is an inserted leaf, the first leaf having been torn out: perhaps this is accounted for by the title given by Wood “History of Tithes: or Tithes vindicated ...”, and the running head line, which is still “The history of Tithes.” Early copies may have this older title.
16. ——. “Sermon on Ephes. 6. 12, 13. Oxon. 1637. qu.”
So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 26: but I have not met with a copy.
17. Prideaux, John. CERTAINE | SERMONS | PREACHED | By Iohn Prideavx, Rector of | Exeter Colledge, his Maiestie’s Pro-|fessor in Divinity in Oxford, and | Chaplaine in Ordinary. | [device.]
Impr. 152: 1637: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [632], see below, signn. ( )1A-X8, Y1, Z, Aa-Rr8, Ss2: pp. 11 begg. as below: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r, title: i. p. 1, a title, within double lines, as are all the succeeding titles:—“CHRISTS | COVNSELL FOR | ENDING LAVV | CASES. | AS IT HATH BEENE DELI-|VERED IN TWO SERMONS | vpon the fiue and twentieth verse of | the fifth of Matthew. | By Iohn Prideavx, Doctor of | Divinity, Regius Professor, and Rector | of Exeter Colledge. | [motto, woodcut, and impr. 152 b, dated 1636]”: 3–4, dedication to Edmund Prideaux and his wife, dated “From Exeter Colledge in Oxford. October 12.”: 5–31, 33–65, the sermons: then a blank page: p. 11 beg. Fall not: ii. (pp. [6] + 39 + [1], p. 11 beg. it is reserued) p. (1) a title “Ephesus backsliding: considered and applied to these times ...”, with impr. 152 b, 1636, an Act sermon at St. Mary’s, July 10, on Rev. ii. 4: (3–6) dedication to dr. Laurence Bodley, Aug. 5: 1–39, the sermon: iii. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. in this point) p. (1) a title “A Christians free-will offering ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636, a Christmas sermon at Christ Church, on Ps. cx. 3: 1–27, the sermon: iv. (pp. [2] + 31 + [1], p. 11 beg. with Pilate) p. (1) a title “The first fruits of the Resurrection ...” with impr. 152b, 1636, an Easter sermon at St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford, on 1 Cor. xv. 20: 1–31, the sermon: v. (pp. [2] + 26, p. 11 beg. abiects came) p. (1) a title “Gowries Conspiracie ...” with impr. 152b, a sermon at St. Mary’s, Aug. 5: 1–26, the sermon, of some slight value for the history of the Gowrie plot, A. D. 1600: vi. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. Saint Augustine), p. (1) a title “Higgaion & Selah: for the discovery of the powder-plot ...” with impr. 152b, 1636, a sermon at St. Mary’s on Nov. 5, on Ps. ix. 16: 1–27, the sermon: vii. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. murmured) p. (1) a title “Hezekiah’s sicknesse and recovery ...,” with impr. 152b, 1636, a sermon before the King at Woodstock, on 2 Chron. xxxii. 24: 1–27, the sermon: viii. (pp. [4]+ 24 + [8], p. 11 beg. springs, Schismatickes) p. (1) a title “Perez-Vzzah, or The Breach of Vzzah ...,” with impr. 152b, 1636, a sermon before the King at Woodstock, 24 Aug. 1624, on 2 Sam. vi. 6–7: (3–4) dedication to James earl of Arran, dated 22 Oct. 1624: 1–24 (1), the sermon: (3–8) “Alloquium serenissimo regi Iacobo Woodstochiæ habitum 24. Augusti. Anno 1624”: ix. (pp. [8] + 29 + [1], p. 11 beg. acknowledge) p. (1) a title “A sermon preached on the fift of October 1624. at the consecration of St Iames Chappell in Exceter Colledge ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: (3–7) epistle dedicatory to dr. George Hakewill, dated Nov. 15: 1–29, the sermon on Luke xix. 46: x. (pp. 28, p. 11 beg. which Iesus) 1–28, a sermon on John vi. 14, without title, see below, but head line “The great Prophet’s Advent”: xi. (pp. [2] + 29+ [1], p. 11 beg. Elenches) p. (1) a title “Reverence to Rulers. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–29, the sermon, on Acts xxiii. 5: xii. (pp. [2] + 22, p. 11 beg. third a comfort) p. (1) a title “The draught of the brooke. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–22, the sermon, on Ps. cx. 7: xiii. (pp. [2] + 32, p. 11 beg. a bit is) p. (1) a title “Davids rejoycing for Christs Resurrection ...”, an Easter sermon at St. Peter’s in the East, on Ps. xvi. 10–11, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–32, the sermon: xiv. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. ther. There) p. (1) a title “The Christians Expectation. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–27, the sermon, on 2 Pet. iii. 13: xv. (pp. [2] + 26, p. 11 beg. beyond wisdome), p. (1) a title “Wisedomes Iustification. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–26, the sermon, on Luke vii. 35: xvi. (pp. [2] + 24, p. 11 beg. Gods appoyntment) p. (1) a title “Heresies progresse. A sermon preached before the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–24, the sermon, on 1 Cor. xi. 19: xvii. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. the world) p. (1), a title “A Plot for preferment. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–27, the sermon, on 1 Pet. v. 6: xviii. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. den lost) p. (1) a title “The patronage of Angels. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–27, the sermon, on Matth. xviii. 10: xix. (pp. [2] + 27 + [1], p. 11 beg. Iohns conclusion) p. (1) a title “Idolatrous Feasting. A sermon preached at the Court ...”, with impr. 152b, 1636: 1–27, the sermon, on 1 Cor. x. 7.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 265 for the author, and 1636 P. This is a collection of twenty sermons by dr. Prideaux from 1614, several preached before the king or court, and several preached at Oxford: those delivered at the consecration of Exeter College Chapel and about Gowrie’s conspiracy being of considerable interest. All, except the second (which is grouped with the first) and the eleventh, have separate titlepages, and are often cited as separate editions, but the signatures run throughout the volume. Sign. Y consists of one leaf only, the other three having been obviously intended for a one-leaf title and two-leaf dedication of the sermon following (no. x in the above divisions, really the eleventh sermon), but apparently they were accidentally omitted. Some were already printed, those before printed at Oxford being nos. i (see 1615 P), ii (see 1614 P), and ix (see 1625 P): and nos. i-vii at least, were printed separately at London in 1621. Collections of these sermons are often found without the general title and in a confused order.
18. Rous, Francis. ARCHÆOLOGJÆ | ATTICÆ | LIBRI TRES. | THREE BOOKES OF THE | Attick Antiquities. | CONTAINING | The description of the Citties glory, govern-|ment, division of the People, and Townes with-|in the Athenian Territories, their Religi-|on, Superstition, Sacrifices, account of | their Yeare, as also a full relation | of their Iudicatories. | [line] | By Francis RouS Scholler of Merton | Colledge in Oxon. | [line: then motto from Aristides, in Greek and English.]
Impr. 160a: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 149 + [3]: p. 11 beg. in height, 101 which standing: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title within a line: (3–6) Epistle dedicatory to Sir Nathaniel Brent, warden of Merton College, Oxford, dated “From my study in Merton College, Iun. 9. 1637”: (7) “To the Reader”: (8) “Errata & inserenda”: 1–149, the work in 3 bks.: (2–3) not seen.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 104. This book, which passed through several editions at Oxford (1649, 1654, 1651, 1662, 1670, and 1675) and London (2nd ed. 1645, 9th ed. 1685), became a companion volume for school use to Godwin’s Roman Antiquities (see 1614 G) and Moses and Aaron (Lond. 1625, &c.).
19. Scheibler, Christophorus. CHRISTOPHORI | SCHEIBLERI, | ANTEHAC IN ACADE-|mia Gissena professoris, et | PÆDAGOGIARCHÆ, NUNC | Tremoniæ | in Ecclesia Superinten-|dentis, & in Gymnasio Rectoris | METAPHYSICA, | DUOBUS LIBRIS | Vniversum hujus scientiæ Systema comprehendens: | OPUS TUM OMNIUM FACUL-|tatum: tum inprimis Philosophiæ & Theolo-|giæ Studiosis utile & necessarium. | PRÆMISSA EST SUMMARIA METHO-|dus, sive dispositio totius Scientiæ. | Et accessit Proœmium de usu Philosophiæ in Theolo-|gia, & prætensa ejus ad Theologiam contrarietate. | Additi sunt singulis Libris Indices duo: alter Capitum generalium | Titulorum, & Articulorum in initio: alter rerum in fine. | Quibus omnibus accessit Exercitationum auctarium, de selectis aliquibus Meta-|physicæ Capitibus. Per T. B. Art. Mag. & Coll Reg. Oxon Socium. | [line] | EDITIO ULTIMA. | [line.]
Impr. 167: 1637: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [24] + 21 + [3] + 472 + [48] + 456 + [34] + 186 + [2]: pp. 11 begg. absolutè, and Pererius, and voco. Æquivocum, and linquatur: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title within double lines: (3–6) Epistola dedicatoria to Ludwig, landgrave of Hesse, by Scheibler, dated Dec. 1616: (7–11) “Lectori Philo-Metaphysico ...”, signed “Thomas Barlow ...”, the editor: (12–13) “Summaria Methodus ...”: (14–24) “Index ad Librum primum ...”, in order of the chapters: 1–21 “Prooenium”: (2) a titlepage to book one: 1–472, bk. 1: (1–30) “Index rerum alphabeticus”: (31) a titlepage to book two: (33–36) Epistola dedicatoria to Philip, landgrave of Hesse, by Scheibler, dated March “1617”: (37–48) “Index ...”, in order of the chapters: 1–456, book two: (1–26) “Index rerum alphabeticus ...”: (27) a titlepage “Exercitationes aliquot metaphysicæ, de Deo ... per Thomam Barlow ...” with impr. 69: (29–31) “Lectori”: (33–34) “Exercitationum ... Syllabus”: 1–186, six exercises: (1) errata.
Scheibler’s Metaphysica was first issued in 1617, and reissued at Oxford in 1665, as well as often elsewhere. Bp. Barlow edited it, and added the Exercitationes de Deo (see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iv. 336), which were reissued in 1658. The edition of 1638 is simply a reissue of the sheets of the 1637 edition, with different imprint and date on the first titlepage, and “Meta-” on the first titlepage altered to “Meta-.” Some woodcut diagrams occur in the Exercitationes: in which also the sections change from eights to fours.
20. ——. “157. Scheibleri (Chr.) Liber Commentariorum Topicorum—Oxon. 1637.”
So in “Catalogi ... librorum Richardi Davis bibliopolæ pars secunda” (1686), p. 75 among octavos. Bagford (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 9501, fol 76v) also describes a copy: and it is probably not really rare, but has escaped the nets of the larger libraries.
21. Stinton, George. A | SERMON | PREACHED IN | THE CATHEDRALL | Church of Worcester vp-|on Sunday Morning, | Novemb. 27. 1636. | IN | The time of Pestilence in o-|ther places of this Land, and now | in the time of the Visita-|tion of that Citie, with that | greivous Sicknesse; and | by reason of it. | By GEO. STINTON, | [motto, then line.]
Impr. 170: 1637: (eights) 16o: pp. 35 + [2]: p. 11 beg. this consideration: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title, within a border of woodcuts: 3, dedication to Worcester: 4, the text, 1 Kings viii. 37–39: 1–35, the sermon.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 406.
22. Thesaurus, Emmanuel. REVERENDI PATRIS | EMANVELIS THESAVRI | E SOCIETATE IESV, | CÆSARES; | Et ejusdem varia carmina: | Quibus accesserunt | Nobilissimorum Orientis | & Occidentis | Pontificum elogia, & | varia opera Poëtica. | Editio secunda emendatior, cum auctariolo. | [woodcuts, then line.]
Impr. 163: 1637: [4] + 151 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Caligula. Nascitur: 101 *Illius Panis: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3) Latin poem by George Herbert on Francis Bacon lord Verulam: (4) Latin epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus by Dan. Heinsius, with a chronogram: 1–38, the Cæsares: 39–151, “Ejusdem Carmina.”
The first edition of this work by Emanuele Tesauro (b. 1581) was published in 1619 at Milan, and a third at the same place in 1643. Backer mentions doubts whether the author of this work is identical with the Jesuit who bore the same names. The book contains Latin epigrams on the Cæsars, and miscellaneous poems. The occurrence of Herbert’s poem in the volume is singular. I have seen a copy in which the first line of the title contained “R. P.” only, which probably indicates an early issue.
23. V[erneuil], I[ohn]. A | Nomenclator | of such Tracts and | Sermons as have beene | printed or translated into | English upon any place | of holy Scripture | [woodcuts, then line] | Operâ, studio & impensis | I. V. | [line, woodcut, line.]
Impr. 119: 1637: (twelves) 16o: pp. [156], signn. A-F12 G6: sign. B1r beg. Ruth. Cap. 4: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A1r, title: A2r-3v “To the courteous and judicoius Reader,” unsigned: A4r-G5r, the work; G6, not seen.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 222. The second edition of this work was issued, doubled in size, in 1642. The author was under-librarian at the Bodleian, and had compiled this list for private use: nearly all the books referred to in the work have their Bodleian references affixed, the arrangement being in the order of the books of the Bible, the Apocrypha being excluded. The fact that some of the books were not in the library “stirred up some well-wishers ... who deprived themselves to furnish this Place with some bookes that were wanting” (Preface of 2nd edition), among whom was Robert Burton.
24. Whear, Degory. RELECTIONES | HYEMALES, | DE RATIONE | & Methodo legendi | utrasq; Historias, | CIVILES ET | ECCLESIASTICAS. | Quibus Historici probatissimi, non solùm | ordine quo sunt legendi catenatim recensentur, | sed doctorum etiam virorum de singulis judicia | subnectuntur. | Nec non | Vndè sig ulorum in Historia vel brevitas | dilatari, vel defectus suppleri, vel perplexitas | expediri; vel mutilationes deniq; temporum | injuriâ factæ resarciri possint, indicatur | [line] | à D. W. prælect. Camdeniano. | [line].
Impr. 164: 1637: (eights) 12o: pp. [32] + 285 + [5]: p. 11 beg. dignos pronunciaret, 201 tiam minus: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–10) dedication to the Vice-chancellor and Heads of Houses in the University of Oxford, dated “Ab aula Glocestrensi Kal. Iul. 1637”, and signed “Degoreus Whear”: (11–32) “Relectionum Conspectus”: 1–20 “Antelogium,” delivered 17 Oct. 1635: 21–285, the work, in three parts (45 + 5 + 7 sections).
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 217 and 1625 W. This is really the 3rd edition. Some copies have impr. 165, instead of 164, omitting Forest’s name.
25. Wyberd, John. SYNOPSIS | Anni Christi 1637. | Sivè | Diarium Astronomicum, & Prog=|nosticon Astrologicum, & Me-|teorologicum, ad annum primum | ab Intercalari. 1637. | Contriving, besides the generall state of | the yeare, the daily disposition and inclination | of the aire, according to the severall positions | and configurations of the celestiall bodies. Also | the times of Conjunctions, greater and lesse; | and Aspects Lunar and mutuall. | Faithfully supputated according to Art, for the use | of those that are residing towards the end of the | 8 climate of the world; situate in the North-tem-|perate Zone: The Pole Artique surmounting the | Horizon 51 degrees 34 minutes. | [line] | Per Joannem WyberduM, | Philophysicum, Astronomophilon. | [line, motto, line.]
Impr. 68 d: 1637: (eights) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B1r beg. The Moone hath: Long Primer Roman and English. Contents:—sign. A1r, title, within a line and a border of woodcuts: A2r-4r prefatory notes, chronological and astrological: A4v-B8r, the Calendar: B8v-C8r, “A Prognostication” for each month.
Rare. This appears to be the first and last Almanac issued by Wyberd. See the note under Booker, above in this year. Besides the words underlined in the above title, the words “Oxford,” and “famous Universitie. 1637.” in the imprint, are printed in red: as well as other words in the text of the book. There is an astrological woodcut of a man on sign. A4r.
1638.
1. Achilles Tatius. The Loves | OF | CLITOPHON | AND | LEVCIPPE. | A most elegant History, written in | Greeke by Achilles TatiuS: | And now Englished. | [line, motto, line, woodcut, line.]
Impr. 172: 1638: (eights) 12o: pp. [24] + 255 + [1]: p. 11 beg. affaires, distraction: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) verses “On the Frontispiece.”: (3) an engraved title, see below: (5–6) “The Translator to the Reader”: (7–24) complimentary verses by friends of the translator, whose initials and Christian name are incidentally mentioned: 1–255, the book.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 301. The translator of the Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφῶντα was Anthony Hodges, of New College. Wood refers to an impression of this book in 1638 without the commendatory verses: this would be no doubt an early issue. The engraved title is a fine one by W. Marshall, in which the words of the ordinary title, with impr. 173, are on a shell held by two mermaids; behind is a storm-tossed ship with the two lovers on board and Cupid in the stern, with the city of “Alexandria” in the background. This title was probably intended to be printed on the second leaf of the first section: but as it is, the frontispiece is on an inserted leaf, and the true second leaf is torn out. This book seems to be still the only English translation of the romance, except that in Bohn’s library.
2. Bancroft, John, bp. of Oxford. ARTICLES | TO BE | ENQVIRED OF | WITHIN THE DIOCES OF | Oxford, in the trienniall Visi-|tation of the Right Reverend Fa-|ther in God Iohn Lord Bi-|shop of Oxford. | HELD | In the yeare of our Lord God 1638. in the | fourteenth yeare of the Reigne of our most | gracious Soveraign Lord, Charles | by the grace of God King of | great, Brittaine France, & | Ireland, Defender of | the Faith &c. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 152: 1638: sm 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B1r beg. buried any: Pica English. Contents:—p. sign. A1r, title: A2r-A3r, Oath, Charge and Directions: A3v-B3r, the Articles in two divisions: B3v, directions: B4, not seen.
3. Burton, Robert. THE | Anatomy of | melancholy | [&c., exactly as 1628 B, being from the same plate with “fift” instead of “thirde,” and different date.]
Impr. 70: 1638: (fours) folio: pp. [14] + 78 + [2] + 723 (after 218 are two unnumbered leaves) + [9]: pp. 11 beg. judgement and in Germany, 601 sate up late: English Roman. Contents:—exactly as in the 1632 edition, except that the “Synopsis of the first partition” precedes the poem “ad librum suum”, the “analysis of the third partition” occupies pp. 399–401, and the partition extends to p. 723: while there is no colophon, there being no p. (10) at end.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 653 and 1621 B. There is a note before the Errata in which the author says that the book was begun to be printed not long before at Edinburgh “sed à typographis nostris illicò suppressa, Londini mox illorum cum venia protelata, Oxoniæ demum perfecta.” Accordingly signn. A-X x are not Oxford printing, but presumably from Edinburgh type: at p. 347 begins Oxford printing, the prefatory matter being also Oxford work. It would appear that some Edinburgh printers began a reprint, that the Oxford printers interfered and suppressed it, that with their consent the part printed in Scotland was not destroyed but protelata, prolonged, given a further lease of life, at London, and finally brought to Oxford and completed. The woodcuts and details of printing point to the division being before p. 347. The signatures of the first sheet are nil, § 2, §, § 2, § 3, nil (!), not counting the engraved title which should occur between the first and second leaf.
4. Bythner, Victorinus. [line] | לְשׁוֹן לִמּוּרִים | [line] | Lingua
EruDITORuM. | Hoc est, | Nova Et Methodica | INSTITVTIO | Linguæ
Sanctæ, | [line] | Usui eorum | Quibus Fontes Israëlis plenè | intelligere,
& ex illis limpidissimas | aquas haurire, curæ cordique est, | accommodata:
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* | [line] | Studio & Operâ | Victorini Bythner. | [line.]
Impr. 183: 1638: (fours) 12o: pp. [8] + 224 + [2]: p. 11 beg. discerpi, 201 locum ubi: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Approbatio” by the Oxford Professor of Hebrew, and Imprimatur by the Vice-Chancellor: (3–4) Latin dedication to the dean and canons of Christ Church: (5) two Greek poems on the book by Edw. Wirley, rector of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford: (7) “Sceleton ...” of the book, a plan of contents: (8) “Admonitio ad Lectorem”: 1–224, the work in 11 chapters (120 rules), with an “Appendix de Aramæismo ...”: (1) “Nomina authorum ... ex quibus hæc Institutio est concinnata.”
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 675. This is the first edition, the second being published at Cambridge in 1645 (the author having moved thither when the Civil War broke out) and afterwards several times, separately or with the Lyra Prophetica, in London. This is an advance on 1631 B.
5. C[aussin], N[icolas]. THE | uNFORTuNATE | POLITIQUE, | First written in French | By C. N. | Englished by | G. P. | [device.]
Impr. 185: 1638: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 218 + [4]: p. 11 beg. rule, by, 201 selfe so: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border of woodcut ornaments: (3–7) “To the courteous and ingenious reader”: 1–218, the work, bearing as a second title “The Life of Herod.”
This is a translation of the 4th book of the well-known Cour Sainte of Nicolas Caussin the Jesuit (d. 1651), entitled “De l’Impieté des Cours” or “Le Politique malheureux”, omitting the first few words: and is in fact a biography of Herod the Great, with reflections on his conduct. The translator gives no clue to his own name, but mentions the author as “the judicious and eloquent Causinus.” The Cour Sainte (first issued in 1624) was translated as a whole into English in 1631 and into Italian, German, Spanish, and other languages, but this 4th part seems never to have been issued separately in French (in Italian 1634, &c.): and this Oxford volume though not rare has escaped even the eye of Backer and his editor Sommervogel (1891), probably because concealed under initials. Some copies have 1639 on the titlepage.
6. Chillingworth, William. THE | RELIGION OF | PROTESTANTS | A SAFE VVAY | TO SALVATION. | OR | AN ANSVVER TO A | BOOKE ENTITLED | MERCY AND TRVTH, | Or, Charity maintain’d by | Catholiques, which pre-|tends to prove the | Contrary. | [line] | By William Chillingworth Master | of Arts of the University of Oxford. | [line, motto, woodcuts.]
Impr. 180 or 181: 1638: (fours) la. 8o: pp. [32] + 413 + [3]: p. 11 beg. vinced that they, 411 which remain: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–7) epistle dedicatory to the king: (8) imprimaturs by the Vicechancellor and the two Theological Professors at Oxford, one dated 14 Oct. 1637: (9–31) “The Preface to the author of Charity maintained [M. Wilson] with an answer to his pamphlet entituled a Direction to N. N.”: 1–413, the book, which incorporates most of the text of the book answered: (1) Errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 91. This book (which Wood erroneously states was issued in 1636, and which was republished in 1664, 1674, 1684, 1687, 1704, 1719, 1727, 1742, 1752, 1820, 1838, 1845, 1846), was the effect and cause of considerable controversy, Chillingworth having recently reverted from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism, and the form of the book being that of an answer to part 1 of M. Wilson’s Mercy and truth or Charity maintayn’d (1634), itself an answer to Potter’s Want of Charity (see 1633 P). The controversy is well described in the Dict. of National Biography. There was a suspicion that Wilson obtained advance copies of the sheets of this book as it went through the press, see Laud’s History of the Chancellorship under the year, where are also given the archbishop’s views about the advisability of Chillingworth answering the second part also of Wilson’s book. The present volume is headed “Part i.” throughout. The issue of this volume with an imprint showing that it was published in London is said to have some slight changes, but they are not easily to be found, and in general the two issues appear to be identical. The description of the Errata and their cause shows that it was the custom, at least at Oxford, for authors to revise their proofs—which has been recently denied.
7. C[roke], dr. Ch[arles]. A SAD | MEMORIALL | OF | HENRY CURWEN | EsquIRE, THE MOST | WORTHY AND ONELY | CHILD OF Sr PatriciuS | CuRWEN Baronet of War-|kington in Cum|berland, | WHO WITH INFI-|NITE SORROW OF | all that knew him depar-|ted this life August: 21. | being Sunday: | 1636. | IN THE FOURTEENTH | yeare of his age; and lyes in|terred in the Church of | Amersham in Buc-|kinghamshire. | [line.]
Impr. 119: 1638: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 32: p. 11 beg. leeve that: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within arched border: (3–4) dedication to sir Patricius and lady Curwen, signed “Ch. C.”: (5) “The Author to the Reader”: (7–8) not seen: 1–23, the sermon, on Job xiv. 2: 24–32, description of the funeral and copies of the verses upon the hearse.
Rare. See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 424. Sir Patricius Curwen’s son had been sent for tuition to the Rector of Amersham, dr. Croke, in whose house he died. The monument still exists at Amersham, and is described in Lipscomb’s Buckinghamshire, iii. 169: the burial was on 23 Aug. 1636. The preface explains that “these papers have lien two years in Cumberland in a Manuscript, which privacie not satisfying the great affection of Noble Parents towards their deceased Son, they are now come to ... view”. The ten copies of verses are in Latin and English, the most considerable being “a Dialogue” in verse by Paul Solomeaux a Frenchman.
8. Florus, Lucius Julius. L. JULII FLORI | rerum à | ROMANIS | GESTARVM | LIBRI IV, | A Johanne Stadio emendati. | Editio nova singulis Neotericis purgatior | & emendatior. | SEORSUM EXCUSUS | IN EOS CommentariuS | Johan: Stadii, Historiæ & Ma-|theseos Lovanii Professoris primi, | elaboratissimus: | Cui accesserunt Chronologicæ Doctiss: | Claud: Salmasii excerptiones. | Unà cum variis lectionibus ex notis Gruteri, | Salmasii, Vineti, & editionibus, colle-|ctis; & cum hâc nostrâ collatis: | Sub calce prodit L. Ampelii Liber Memorialis ex | Clariss: Salmasii bibliotheca petitus. | Cum Indice Rerum & Verborum | uberrimo. | [two lines.]
Impr. 121: 1638: (twelves) 16o: pp. [4] + 137 + [1] + 319 + [123] + 31 + [1]: pp. 11 begg. immortalium, rum pleb., quem Carthaginienses: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Typographus Lectori”: 1, a title precisely as 1631 F, except that all V’s are now U’s, I’s consonantal are J’s, and ij’s are ii’s, and in ll. 7–8 “purgatior | & emendatior”, with impr. 72 a: 3–137, (1), 1–319, (1–35) are also precisely as in 1631 F, the titlepage on p. 2 differing slightly in minute points: (36–67) the Excerptiones, with Epilogus: (68–115) “Ad Florum variarum lectionum libellus”: (116–123), 1–31 “Lucius Ampelius ex bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii”, with preface.
This is a reprint of 1631 F, with additions shown on the titlepage. The underlined words are in red, as well as “Oxoniæ,” in the imprint.
9. Gardyner, dr. Richard. A | SERMON | PREACH’D IN | THE CATHEDRALL | CHVRCH OF CHRIST | IN OXFORD, | On Christmas Day: | Wherein is defended the Catholique | Doctrine that Christ is True | God Truely Incarnate. | AGAINST THE OLDE DE-|cay’d Heresies newely Reviu’d in | these later Dayes. | [line] | BY | Richard Gardyner, D.D. And | Canon of the same Church. | [line.]
Impr. 175: 1638: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. pable to save: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within a line: (5–8) dedication to dr. Duppa dean of Ch. Ch.: 1–31, the sermon, on John i. 14.