1591.
1. Barne, Thomas. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT PAVLS CROSSE | THE THIRTEENTH OF IVNE, THE SE-|cond Sunday in Trinitie tearme 1591. by | Thωmas Barne student in Diuinity. [three mottos, then a metal engraving (arms of the University &c.)].
Impr. 4: 1591: 8o in size.
Extremely rare. Only known from a titlepage preserved in the Bodleian Library.
Probably this is the source of Herbert’s description (iii. 1405). He calls the
book a quarto: the size of the close-cut titlepage is 69
16 in. × 3¾ in. The metal engraving
is curious: see 1591. T.
2. Hacket, Roger. “Roger Hacket, his sermon at Paules Crosse on 1 Sam. xi; 5, 6, 7 ... Octavo.”
So Herbert’s Ames, p. 1404, from Maunsell, i. 100. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 317.
3. Herodotus. FEBRVARII.Υ Α῾ΛΙΚΑ´ΡΝΑΣΣΕ´ΩΣ Ι῾ΣΤΟΡΙ-|Ω῀Ν ΠΡΩ´ΤΗ, ΚΛΕΙΩ´. | HERODOTI HALICAR-|NASSENSIS HISTORIARVM | liber primus, Clio. | [device.]
Impr. 15: 1591: sm. 4o: pp. 69 + [3]: p. 11 beg. βιώτατον: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Herodoti vita ex Suida,” &c.: 3–69, Herodotus, bk. 1: 69, “Errata graviora sic corrigenda.”
4. Sparke, Thomas. AN ANSWERE TO MA-|STER IOHN DE ALBINES, | NOTABLE DISCOVRSE AGAINST | heresies (as his frendes call his booke) | Compiled by Thomas Spark pastor | of Blechley in the county of Buck. | [two mottos, then device.]
Impr. 4: 1591: 8o: pp. [76] + 426 + [6]: p. 11 beg. you are quite, 111 thing which it: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) Title: (3–14) Epistle dedicatorie to Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, signed “Thomas Sparke”: (15–76) “The preface to the Reader,” including (27–76) an answer to the preface to Albines’ book: 1–407, the treatise: 408–426, “A short answere to a new offer ... an enumeration of six ... signes of Antichristians ...”: (1–4) “A Table”: (5) “Faults escaped in printing, through the absence of the author, the hardnes and smalnes of the hand, wherein the copy was offered to the presse, and the vnacquaintance of the ouerseers with the same.”
In answer to Jean de Albin’s treatise against heresies printed in English at Douai in 1575: the text of which appears to be entirely reprinted in this edition. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 190.
5. Tacitus. THE | ENDE OF NERO | AND BEGINNING OF | GALBA. | FOWER BOOKES OF THE HISTO-|ries Of Cornelivs Tacitvs. | THE LIFE OF AGRICOLA. |
[Colophon on sign. H 2r:—] impr. 14: [on titlepage:—M . D . LXXXXI] 1591: (sixes) la. 8o: pp. [6] + 17 + [1] + 267 + [1] + 80 + [4]: p. 11 beg. so good a, and another Prince, 111 xxix. The setting, 11 ted to all: 1st pt. Great Primer, 2nd pt. Pica, Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the Queen, signed “Henry Savile”: (5–6) “A. B. To the Reader”: 1–17, the Ende of Nero, &c.: 1–267, the translation of Tacitus’s Histories bks. 1–4, and (p. 237) his Life of Agricola: 1–48, Annotations upon the four books and the Life: 49–75, “A view of certain militar matters,” with plan of Roman camp at p. 59: 75–77, “The explication of a place in Polybius” about Greek money: 78–80, “Translations of the marginall Greeke”: (1) “A note of the editions vsed in such authors as are cited by page”: (2) “Errours of the printe, or changes”: (3) colophon.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 312. The A. B. of the preface was believed to be lord Essex (Edm. Bolton’s Hypercritica ad fin., Oxf. 1722). There is something peculiar about this edition, for bibliographers describe it as London, and the woodcut in the dedication is not otherwise known to belong to Barnes. The titlepage and form are rather of London than Oxford. A metal engraving in the text is perhaps Barnes’s: see 1591. B.
6. Trigge, Francis. ANALYSIS CAPI-|TIS VICESIMI QVARTI | EVANGELII SECVNDVM Matthævm, | in qua Prophetiæ omnes, & quæ ad Sinagogam, | & quæ ad Antichristum seductorem illum, & quæ ad nostra | tempora spectant, clarè explicantur, nec non ministerium ec-|clesiasticum cum omnibus suis adiunctis declaratur | ac delineatur. | Authore Francisco Triggo. | [device.]
Impr. 1a: 1591: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 128: p. 11 beg. loquutus est, 111 ti ora vult: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Will. James, dean of Christ Church, vice-chancellor, “ex Welburnia mea” 19 Apr. 1591: 1–128, the Analysis.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 759.
7. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | [&c. as 1589. U, except in l. 7 : for ., l. 9 comma added after beene, l. 15 is in italic, in imprint “Ty|gres head. 1591” for “Tygres | head. 1589”].
Impr. 6: 1591: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg. nister comfort, 111 might fall?, 501 father al: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–16), as 1589. U: 1–966, the catechism: (1–9) “A table ...” of contents.
See 1587. U.
1592.
1. Barlaamus. ΤΟΥ῀ ΣΟΦΩΤΑ´ΤΟΥ ΒΑΡΛΑΑ`Μ ΛΟ´ΓΟΣ ΠΕΡΙ` | ΤΗ῀Σ ΤΟΥ῀ ΠΑ´ΠΑ ἈΡΧΗ῀Σ. | BARLAAMI DE PAPAE PRINCI-|PATV LIBELLVS. | Nunc primùm Græcé & Latiné editus opera Ioannis | Lvidi Procuratoris Academiæ Oxoniensis. | Ad | Illustrissimum Dominum Bucchurstium | eiusdem Academiæ Cancellarium | Amplissimum. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592: sm. 4o: pp. [40],
signn. ¶, A-D4: sign. B 1r beg. ἀξιοῦσθαι
χειροτονίας: Pica Greek and Roman.
Contents:—¶ 1r, “¶ j”: ¶ 2r, title: ¶ 2v,
arms of Buckhurst engraved on metal:
¶ 3r-¶ 4r, epistle dedicatory to Thomas
Sackville lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of
Dorset, 1 Jan. “1592,” i. e. 1591
2: A 1r-B
3r, the Greek text: B 4r-D 3v, the Latin
text.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 739. This is the editio princeps of the work of bp. Barlaamus. A copy presented by the author to John Selden, now in the Bodleian, is without the device on the titlepage.
2. Brasbridge, Thomas. Quæstiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis, compendiariam totius Opusculi Epitomen continentes. 16o: (Impr. 5).
From notes of a copy belonging to lord Robartes, seen by me in Dec. 1879. The dedication is dated 1586, of which date there is a copy of the book in Christ Church Library, Oxford: see 1615. B, an edition noticed in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 526.
3. Breton, Nicholas. THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARA-|DISE, IOYNED WITH THE | Countesse of Pembrookes loue, compiled | in verse by Nicholas Breton | Gentleman. | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 6: 1592: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 102 + [2]: p. 11 beg. But, waking: Primer (Great Primer?) Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4), epistle dedicatory to Mary Countess of Pembroke: (5) “To the Gentlemen studients and Scholers of Oxforde,” 12 Apr. 1592, with a note disclaiming an edition “of late printed in london by one Richarde Ioanes ... entituled Bretons bower of delight,” as unauthorized and to a large extent not his own poems: (6) “To my honest true friende Master Nicholas Breton,” signed “Iohn Case”: (7–8) poems by Will. Gager and Henry Price to Breton: 1–65, the pilgrimage: 66–102, the countess of Pembroke’s love, both poems in 6-line stanzas: (1) 7 “Errata.”
Very rare. See Hazlitt’s Handbook, p. 56.
4. Case, John. SVMMA | VETERVM INTER-|PRETVM IN VNIVER-|SAM DIALECTICAM ARISTO-|TELIS; QVAM VERE FALSO-|ue Ramus in Aristotelem inueha-|tur, ostendens. | Auctore. | IOANNE CASE OXONIENSI, | olim Collegii D. Ioannis Præcurso-|ris socio. | Omnibus Socraticæ Peripateticæque philosophiæ studiosis in | primis vtilis ac necessaria. | Recognita & emendata. | Cum Indice rerum & verborum locupletiss. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 201 + [7]: p. 11 beg. Resp. Definitio, 111 Opponens Aliquid: Brevier Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Ioannis Readi carmen, in dialecticam Ioannis Casi”: (3–5) Epistola nuncupatoria to Rob. Dudley earl of Leicester: (6–8) “Ad benevolum lectorem,” dated “Idibus August.”: 1–201 the work: (1–6) Index.
The first edition of this book was issued at London by Thomas Vautrollier in 1584. The text of the treatise appears to be an inaccurate reprint of the 1584 edition, but most of the complimentary verses, with Nicholas Maurice’s preface dated Sept. 1582, are here omitted: and there are other slight alterations. See 1598. C. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686.
5. Churchyard, Thomas. A | HANDEFVL OF | GLADSOME VERSES, | giuen to the Queenes Maiesty | at Woodstocke this Prograce. | 1592. | By | Thomas Chvrchyarde. | [device.]
Impr. 2: 1592: sm. 4o (perhaps [fours] 8o): pp. [20]. signn. A-B4 C2: sign. B 2r beg. That pleaseth: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to the Queen: A 3r-A 4v, “A few volu ntary verses to the general readers”: B 1r-C 2r, the Handful of Verses: C 2v “[A V]erse of variety to all those that honors the onely Phœnix of the world” i. e. the Queen.
Extremely rare: a copy is in the British Museum. Reprinted in H. Huth’s Fugitive Tracts in Verse, 1st Ser., no. xxxi (privately printed, Lond. 1875.)
6. Elizabeth, queen. [Speeches delivered | to Her Majesty this last Progress | at the Rt. Hon. the Lady Russels, at | Bissam; the Lord Chandos | at Sudeley; the Lord | Norris, at Ricott.]
[Impr. 7a: 1592]: sm. 4o: pp. [24], signn. A-C4: sign. B 2r beg. Daphnes mischance: Pica Roman. Contents:—[A 1r, title?]: A 2r-C 4r, the speeches, &c.
Very rare. In the British Museum copy, the only one at present known (?), the titlepage (A 1) is lost, a transcript being supplied apparently from some other copy: also B 1 is lost. The text is reprinted in John Nichols’ Progresses ... of Queen Elizabeth, new edition, iii. (London. 1823), p. 130, but the source is not stated. A copy was sold in the Heber sale (Catal. pt. ii, p. 198, lot 3800) in 1834. Herbert’s Ames in the Additions iii. 1813 mentions the book.
7. Gager, William. MELEAGER. | Tragœdia noua. | BIS PVBLICE ACTA IN | ÆDE CHRISTI | Oxoniæ. [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 16o: pp.
[96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. Non
leuior: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign.
A 1r title: A 2r-A 3r, letter dedicatory to
Robert earl of Essex, 1 Jan. “1592”
(1592
3?), signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”:
A 3v-A 4r, Complimentary poems to the
author, one by Albericus Gentilis: A 4v-A
5r, short poetical and prose account of
the play by the author: A 5v “Personae”:
A 6r-E 7v, the play with prologues, argument
and epilogues: E 8r-F 5v, “Panniculus
Hippolyto Senecæ Tragœdiæ assutus
1591,” a short play: F 6r “Apollo
προλογίζει ad Serenissimam Reginam Elizabetham
1592,” a poem: F 6v-F 7r, Prologue
and Epilogue to “Bellum Grammaticale.”
[F 8 not seen].
For the controversy caused by the publication of this play (which had been acted according to the letter dedicatory in 1581 or 1582 and 1584 or 1585), see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 88.
8. Gager, William. VLYSSES REDVX | Tragoedia Nova. | IN AEDE CHRISTI OXONIAE | PVBLICE ACADEMICIS RE-|CITATA, OCTAVO IDVS | FEBRVARII. 1591. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1591: (eights) 12o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. Viæque fessum: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, “Prologus ad Academicos” in verse: A 3r-A 4r, epistle dedicatory to lord Buckhurst, Ch. Ch., 10 May 1592, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”: A 4v-A 7r, complimentary poems, &c., one by Albericus Gentilis: A 7v, “Personæ”: A 8r-F 1r, the play: F 2r-F 6v, five Latin pieces by Gager, including a “Prologus in Rivales, Comœdiam.” [F 8 not seen].
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 89.
9. Lycophron. ΛΥΚΟΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΤΟΥ | ΧΑΛΚΙΔΕΩΣ | Αλεξάνδρα. | LYCOPHRONIS CHAL-|cidensis Alexandra. | In vsum Academiæ Oxoniensis. | [device.]
Impr. 13a: 1592: (fours) 12o: pp. [2] + 44 + [2] : p. 11 beg. ὠνητὸς ἀιθαλω: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: 1–44, the work: (1–2) (not seen.)
The poem is better known as the Cassandra, which is the running title throughout. Some various readings are printed in the margin.
10. Sanford, John. APOLLINIS ET MVSARVM | ἘΥΚΤΙΚΑ` ἘΙΔΎΛΛΙΑ, | in serenissimæ reginæ Elizabethae | auspicatissimum Oxoniam aduentum, de-|cimo die Calend. Octobris, An: M . D . LXXXXII. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592 : sm. 4o: pp. [24], signn. A-C4: sign. B 1r beg. Cernis vt: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, Latin poetical dedication to dr. Nicholas Bond, vice-chancellor and president of Magdalen college, signed “Ioannes Sanfordus”: A 2r-C 4r, the Idylls.
Very rare, unknown even to Wood and Nichols (Progresses of Qu. Elizabeth). Two copies are in the British Museum, and lord Robartes has an imperfect one, seen in 1881. Reprinted literatim in the Oxford Historical Society’s viiith volume, (Oxf., 1887, 8vo), where see notes by the editor, the rev. Charles Plummer. The poems are ‘in honour of the Queen’s Visit, and especially in connection with a banquet given by the President and Fellows of Magdalen to the nobles and Privy Councillors of the Queen’s retinue,’ 22 Sept. 1592.
11. Thorne, William. Dvcente Deo. | WILLELMI THORNI | TVLLIVS, SEV Ρ῾ΉΤΩΡ IN TRIA | STROMATA DIVISVS. | [motto.] | E NOVO BEATÆ MARIÆ | WINTON IN OXON COLLEGIO. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 16: 1592: (eights) 12o: pp. [32] + 253 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Primi Stromatis, 111 ‘Πρόληψις: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) Engraved arms and motto of lord Pembroke, with verses: (3–8) epistle dedicatory to William Herbert heir of lord Pembroke: (9–25) “Eidem Willelmi Thorni parænesis ad Rhetoricam ἐγκωμιαστική”: (26–30) complimentary verses to Thorn: (31–32) address to the reader, in Latin: (32) 3 lines of errata: 1–253, the work, in three Stromata and an appendix: (1) “Errata sic corrigenda.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 480. A treatise on Rhetoric. A poem on p. (30) shows that John Sanford of Magdalen was ‘Corrector Typograph.’
1593.
1. Aristophanes. ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ | ἹΠΠΕΙΣ. | * *
* | ARISTOPHANIS
| Eqvites | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1593: sm. 4o: pp. [56], signn. A-G4: sign. B 1r beg. Κλέπτων τὸν οἶνον: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title within border: A 2r, Ὑπόθεσις and Δράματος πρόσωπα: A 3r-G 4r, the play.
The first separate edition of this comedy.
2. Demosthenes. “‘Demosthenis Orationes 15, cum interpretatione Nicolai Carri; 3 Olynthiacarum, 4 Philippicarum.’ Quarto.”
So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1405. Possibly a mistake for 1597.
3. Gentilis, Albericus. “‘Albericus Gentilis Commentarii de Malificis & Mathemat. & aliis similibus.’ Quarto.”
So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1405. In the reprint (Hanover, 1604) the title is ‘Alberici Gentilis, I. C., Professoris Regii, Ad Tit. C. de Maleficis et Math. & ceter. similibus commentarius ...;’ the preface is dated Oxford 26 June 1593, and addressed to dr. Toby Matthew.
4. G[winne], M[atthew], and Henry Price. EPICEDIVM | IN OBITVM ILLVS-|TRISSIMI HEROIS HEN-|RICI COMITIS DER-|BEIENSIS. &C. | [device: then motto.]
Impr. 11: 1593: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. Epitaphium: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, epistle dedicatory to Ferdinand Stanley (“Sanleio”) earl of Derby, signed M[atthew] G[winne], H[enry] P[rice]: A 3r-B 4v, seven Latin poems or epitaphs, the last signed in full “Henricus Priceus.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 702, ii. 415.
5. Parry, Henry. “Concio de Victoria Christianâ, in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593–94. Lond. 1606.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193: see 1594. P.
6. Sparke, Thomas. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT WHADDON | in Buckinghamshyre the 22. of | Nouember 1593. at the buriall of | the Right Honorable, Arthur | Lorde Grey of Wilton, Knight of the | most Honorable order of the Garter, | by | Thomas Sparke Pastor of | Blechley. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 2: 1593: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 87 + [1]: p. 11 beg. talkes of: Pica English. Contents:—(1) title, within border: (3–7) Epistle dedicatorie to the countess of Bedford, her daughter lady Grey and Thomas lord Grey of Wilton, Bletchley, 1 Dec. 1593: (8) “In obitum clarissimi Herois, Domini Arthuri Greij. θρηνῳδία,” a Latin hexameter poem by “Ioannes Sanfordus”: 1–87, the sermon, on Is. lvii. 1–2: 87, “Faultes escaped,” eight errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 190.
1594.
1. Beacon, Richard. SOLON HIS FOLLIE, | OR | A POLITIQVE
DIS-|COVRSE, TOVCHING THE | Reformation of common-weales conque-|red,
declined or corrupted. | by Richard Beacon gent. stv-|DENT OF GRAYES
INNE, AND SOME-|times her Maiesties Attorney of the province | of
Mounster in Irelande. | * *
* | [device.]
Impr. 2: 1594: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 114 + [2]: p. 11 beg. nius. Sol:, 111, the thirde matter: Pica English. Contents:—pp. (1–2) (not seen, but presumably blank): (3) title: (5–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the queen: (9) “The Authour to the Reader,” (10) “The booke vnto the Reader”: (1–114) the treatise: (1–2) (not seen, but presumably blank).
2. [Lewes, Richard.] [woodcuts] APOLOGIA | INNOCENTIAE ET | INTEGRITATIS R. L. | SACRÆ THEOLOGIÆ BAC-|calaurei adversus inquissimas | E. Osb. transfugæ sacrifi-|culi calumnias ad Acade-|micos Oxonienses. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 12o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. & Apostolus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A 7v, the Apologia: A 8r-C 8r, “Concio habita Oxoniæ festo cineritio, A. D. 1594 per R. L. B. S. Th. Textus ex 3. cap. Ep. D. Pau. ad Philipp. Ver. 1.”
Very rare. A diatribe against Edward Osberne’s Palinodia, printed in the Concertatio ecclesiae catholicae in Anglia by Johannes Aquepontanus (Bridgwater), Augsburg 1594, p. 240, in which Osberne who had been twice converted to the Roman Catholic religion had made reflexions on Lewes a Protestant. The clue to the author’s name is sign. A 5v compared with p. 241 of the Concertatio. Some account of the author is in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 227.
3. Lewes, R[ichard]. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT PAVLES | Crosse, by R. Lewes, Bacche-|ler of Divinitie, concerning Isaac | his Testament, disposed by the | Lord to Iacobs comfort, though it | were intended to Esau by his fa-|ther; shewing, that the counsel of | God shal stand, albeit the whole | worlde withstande it. | [device.]
Impr. 2a: 1594: (eights) 12o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. Isaac, see: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, within a border: A 2r-A 3r, Epistle dedicatory to sir Henry Unton, dated “This xviij of June”: A 4r-C 8v, the sermon, on Gen. xxvii. 1–10.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 227.
4. Parry, Henry. VICTORIA CHRISTIANA. | CONCIO AD | CLERVM: HABITA | OXONIAE ANNO | Domini. 1591. | H. Parry Auctore. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. culeo suo: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 4v, epistle dedicatory to William Herbert, lord Cardiff: sign. A 5r-C 7r(?: C 7 not seen), the sermon, on Rev. iii. 21: C 8 (not seen, probably blank.).
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193, where an edition of 1593 is mentioned, perhaps by error.
5. Powel, Griffith. ANALYSIS | ANALYTICO-|RVM POSTERIORVM | SIVE LIBRORVM ARISTO-|telis de Demonstratione, in | qua singula capita per quæ-|stiones & responsiones | perspicuè exponuntur: | adhibitis | QVIBVSDAM SCHOLIIS, | ex optimis quibusque interpretibus | desumptis, operâ & studio G. P. Oxoniensis | confecta & edita in vsum iuniorum. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 16o: pp. [16] + “344” [really 333] + [3]: p. 11 beg. mia magnitudinem, “111” singularis: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatory to Robert earl of Essex, signed “Griffinus Powel,” Jesus coll. Oxford, Feb. 27: (7–10) “Ad Lectorem Academicum”: (11–15) “Prolegomena”: 1-“344,” the Analysis.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 283. In the preface the author promises a similar analysis of the Topica, Sophistici Elenchi (see 1598. P) and Physica, and says that his method is derived from that of Ursinus. The paging is very wild: the signatures are ¶, A-X8 = 352 pages. See 1564. Diagrams occur in the text and margins.
6. Powel, Griffith. “Analysis libri Aristot. de Sophisticis Elenchis. Ox. 1594.” A mistake in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 283 for 1598: see 1598. P.
7. Sparke, A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | Cheanies the 14. of | September, 1585, at the bu-|riall of the Right Honora-|ble the Earle of Bedforde, | by | Thomas Sparke Do-|ctor of Divinitie. | Newly perused and corrected by | the Authour. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 2: 1594: (eights) 16o: pp. [10] + 110: p. 11 beg. as good: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title, within border: (3–10) Epistle dedicatorie to Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, dated Bletchley. 25 Dec. 1585: 1–110, the sermon, dated at end 22 Sept. 1594.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193. A new ed. of 1585. S.
8. Trigge, Francis. A | GODLY AND FRVIT-|FVLL SERMON PREA-|CHED AT GRANTHAM. | Anno. Dom. 1592. | by | Francis Trigge. | Wherein as in a glasse, every de-|gree may plainely see their spots and staines: | and may bee thereby made in deede beautifull | (if they doe not hate to be reformed) | against the appearance of | Jesus Christ. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 7: 1594: (eights) 16o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. state of Christes: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 4v, address “To the Christian Reader”: A 5r-F 8r, the sermon, on Is. xxiv. 1–3.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 759: and 1595. T.
1595.
1. Moore, Robert. DIARIVM HISTORICOPOETICVM, | IN QVO | PRAETER CONSTELLATIO-|NVM VTRIVSQVE HEMISPHAE-|RII, ET ZODIACI, ORTVS, ET OCCA-|sus, numerum stellarum causarum-|q́ue, ad poesin spectantium, vari-|etatem, declarantur | CVIVSQUE MENSIS DIES FERE | SINGVLI, REGVM, IMPERATORVM, | Principum, Pontificum, virorumq̄ue doctorum, na-|talibus, nuptiis, inaugurationibus, morte de⸗|niq̄ue, aut re alia quacunque insig-|niore, celebriores, | sic, | VT NIHIL PAENE DESIDERARI POSSIT, | ad perfectam rerum gestarum Chronolo-|giam, cum, ex auctoribus probatissimis, accu-|rata quoque annorum ratio margini | ascribatur. | [motto] | Suasu, & permissu superiorum. |
Impr. 11: 1595: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 102 + [6]: p. 11 beg. Sic respiraram: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistola Dedicatoria to sir (?) John Wolley and his wife Elizabeth, signed “Robertus Moore,” New College, Oxford, 6 July 1595: (7–8) address “Ad Lectorem Benevolum”: (8) “Auctoris ad libellum parænesis,” a short poem: 1–102, the work: (1–6) Index: (6) five errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 654. The book is a long hexameter poem, divided into twelve books, one for each month, in which historical events are successively alluded to.
2. Trigge, Francis. “Trigge (F.) Godly and Fruitfull Sermon, at Grantham, 1592, black letter, Oxford, 1595.”
So in the Pyne Auction sale catalogue at Sotheby’s, art. 1058, sold on 8 July 1886. Quaritch ascertained that the date was correct. Probably a reissue of 1594. T.
3. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Delivered by Zacharias Vrsinvs in | his Lectures vpon the Catechisme, authori-|sed by the noble Prince Fredericke | throughout his dominions. | Wherein are debated and resolved the Questions | of whatsoever pointes of moment, which have beene | or are controversed in Divinity. | Translated into English by Henry Parry, out of the last and | best Latine Editions, together with some supply of | wantes out of his Discourses of Divinity, and with correction | of sundry faults & imperfections. which are | as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 6: 1595: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg. nister comfort, 111 might fall, 801 he that hath: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl of Pembroke: (9–15) “To the Christian readers”: 1–966, the treatise: (1–9) “A table ...”.
See 1587. U.
4. Wermueller, Otto. PERL MEWN ADFYD | neu, | Perl ysprydawl, gwyrthfawrocaf, | yn dyscu i bôb dyn garu, a chofleidio y groes, | meis peth hyfryd angenrheidiawl ir enaid, pa|gonffordd sy yw gael o honi, ple, ac ym ha fodd, | y dylid ceisiaw diddanwch, a chymorth ym hob | adfyd: a thrachefn, pa wedd y dyle bawb i ym-|ddwyn i hunain mewn blinder, yn ol gair duw, | a escrifennwyd yn gyntaf mewn Dwitch | gann bregethwr dyscedig Otho Wer-|mulerus, ac a droed ir Saesonaeg | gann D. Miles Coverdal, | ac yrawrhon yn hwyr ir | Gambraeg gann. | H L. | [Welsh motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 17: 1595: 12o: pp. [24] + 246 + [6]: pp. 11 beg. mal i llefarod’, 111 duw, er: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–11) dedication to dr. Richard Vychan (Vaughan), archdn. of Middlesex, signed “Huw Lewys”: (12–13) poem “At yr vnrhyw wr” by Lewys: (15–23) “Ir darlennydd Christnogaidd rhad a thangneddyf Ynghrist”: 1–246 the work: (1–4) poem “Cowydd ir Iesu” by Lewys: (5) “Gweddi ferr yw doedyd mewn adfyd.”
A translation into Welsh by Hugh Lewis of Wermueller’s Spiritual and most precious Pearl, a religious treatise, translated from the German into English by Miles Coverdale (Lond. 1550). See M. Williams’s Cofrestr o’r holl Lyfrau printjedig ... yn y Faith Gymraeg ... (Lond. 1717), Cambrian Bibliography by the rev. William Rowlands, ed. by the rev. D. S. Evans (Llandidloes, 1869, 8vo), p. 71. This is the first Welsh book printed at Oxford and the first occurrence of Rhydychen (Oxenford) in Oxford imprints. The translator begs the reader to excuse the absence of y in some places before n and r, the printer’s stock being too small. For the same reason dd is usually d’ and ll l’. If a word is here and there omitted it should be remembered that the printing is done by Englishmen!
1596.
1. Case, John. REFLEXVS | SPECVLI MORALIS | QVI COMMENTARII VICE | esse poterit in Magna Moralia Aristo-|telis: auctore Johanne Caso, | in Medicina Doctore, Collegij | Divi Iohannis Præcursoris | Oxon. olim socio. | [five mottos, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 5a: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 271 + [1]: p. 11 beg. one ab, 111 Quæst. 3: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistola dedicatoria to Richardus Phetiplacius, Oxf. 20 Sept. 1596: (7–11) address “Ad Lectorem, Benevolum” 26 Nov. 1596: (13–15) 5 Latin poems on the book: 1–198, the work: 199–200, “Peroratio operis, ad lectorem” 20 Sept. 1596: 201–206, “Quæstionum ... ordo ...”: 207–208, “Index Capitum”: 209–268, “A B Cedarium moralis philosophiæ Johanni Phetipacio Richardi Phetiplacii filiolo: omnibusque Tyronibus virtutum studiosis, scriptum & commendatum,” by question and answer: 269–271, “Peroratio ad adolescentem studiosum lectorem,” 30 Nov. (1596).
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687. The first address shows that for a time the printer refused to produce the work, which is related to the Speculum of 1585, for fear that it might be reprinted at once elsewhere, and he suffer loss as in the case of the Sphæra Civitatis of 1588. See 1586. C. A presentation copy has red lines round the page, on three sides double. This book is strictly the second part of the next art., Case’s Speculum.
2. Case, John. SPECVLVM | QVÆSTIONVM | MORALIVM, IN VNI-|VERSAM ARISTOTELIS | Philosophi summi Ethicen, cui ad-|ditur brevis commentarius in magna | Moralia Aristotelis, qui ab Autho-|re Reflexus speculi Moralis | nominatur, | IOHANNE CASO OXONIENSI | Doctore in Medicina olim Collegii præ-|cursoris socio Authore, | NVNC DENVO RECOGNITVM, | & à mendis plerisque repurgatum. | CVM INDICE VERBORVM ET RERVM | præcipuè memorabilium locuplete. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 20: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [32] + folded sheet + 533 + [27]: p. 11 beg. empli causa, 111 tur: quod: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) epistola nuncupatoria to the earl of Leicester, dated 7 Mar. “1585”: (11–15), address “ad studiosos iuvenes utriusque academiæ,” with a short poem: (17–31) complimentary Latin verses: a “Tabula virtutum et vitiorum omnium,” folio sheet printed on one side only: 1–531, the work: 532–533, “Peroratio ad lect orem”: (1–26) Index.
A reprint of 1585. C. The above title covers the preceding article, Case’s Reflexus Speculi, but for convenience they are separately treated.
3. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | His | Honorable
lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes lamentation. | * *
* |
[motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [106], signn. A4, one leaf, B-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents: sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth widow of sir F. Drake, signed by the author of the book “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 3r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 4r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “D. W.”: 5th leafr “In Dracum redivivum; Carmen,” beg. Quis vostrûm, signed “Thomas Michelborne”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.
Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 607. The book was reprinted in the same
year with small differences in the text chiefly of spelling, but with considerable
changes in the prefatory matter: see below. It was also reprinted in 1819 at the Lee
Priory Press, and edited by dr. Grosart in 1881* *
*. The poem is in 7-line stanzas,
rhyming ABABBCC. Woodcut ornaments occur at the top and bottom of almost
every page, and the book has the appearance of an édition de luxe.
4. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | his | Honorable
lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes | lamentation. |
* *
* | [motto.] | Newly Printed with additions. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [112], signn. A-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth Drake, signed “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 2v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3r “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.”, poem, beg. Many greate, signed “Thomas Mychelborne”: A 4r “To the Author,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “Diag. Vvh.,” i. e. Degory Whear: A 4v “Ad Dracum,” English poem, beg. Weepe not, signed “Ty. Co.”: A 5r-A 6v, address “To the Reader” signed “C. F.” Broadgates (Oxford), 17 Nov. 1596: A 7r-A 8v, quotations ending “Hæc ferè sunt quæ de Draco nostro apud exoticos poetas legimus”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.
See preceding article.
Very rare. This issue is almost identical with the first, but the whole text appears to be newly set up, with minute differences.
5. Morlet, Pierre. IANITRIX | siue | INSTITVTIO AD PER-|fectam linguæ Gallicæ | cognitionem ac-|quirendam. | Authore Petro Morleto | Gallo. | [motto: then device.]
Impr. 11: 1596: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 92 + [4] : p. 11 beg. Antequam verò: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–7) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Robert Beal, dated Broadgates Hall, “15 Mar. 1596”: (9–13) complimentary poems in Latin and Greek: (14) “Errata”: 1–92 the treatise.
Very rare: a French grammar, in Latin, by Pierre Morlet (?). The dedication states that the author was tutor to sir Robert Beal, having been introduced by David Chytræus.
6. Perrot, sir James. “A Discovery of Discontented Minds wherein their several sorts & purposes are described especially such as are gone beyond ye Seas. Dedicated to ye Earl of Essex by James Perrot & printed at Oxford in 4to by Joseph Barnes Printer to the University—1596.”
Very rare. The above is from Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5904 (Bagford’s Collections), foll. 20 & 171. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 606, Herbert’s Ames, p. 1406, both notices derived from Oldys’s Catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian Library (Harleian Miscellany, vol. x. (1813), p. 358, where ‘Quarto, in thirty-four pages’ is added).
7. Pinner, Charles. [Sermon by Charles Pinner at Marlborough, on 1 Tim. iv. 16.]
(Impr. ?: 1596?): (eights) 16o: pp. 53 +[3]: p. 11 beg. through knowledge: Pica English. Contents:—p. 1 title: 3–4, Epistle dedicatory to “master Iohn Bailife” of Marlborough, dated from Wotton Basset, 20 Oct. 1596: 5–53, the sermon.
Very rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 667. In the Bodleian copy, the only one known, the title is lost, so that the date is uncertain. But the book was certainly printed at Oxford, the woodcut on p. 5 being decisive.
8. Rainolds, John. JOHANNIS RAINOLDI, | DE ROMANÆ ECCLE-|SIÆ IDOLOLATRIA, IN | CVLTV SANCTORVM, RE-|liquiarum, imaginum, aquæ, salis, olei, | alarumque rerum consecratarum, & | sacramenti Eucharistiæ, | OPERIS INCHOATI | Libri dvo. | IN QVIBUS CUM ALIA MVLTA | VARIORVM PAPISMI PATRONO-|rum errata patefiunt: tûm inprimis Bellarmini, | Gregoriique de Valentia, calumniæ in Calvi-|num ac ceteros Protestantes, argutiæque | pro Papistico idolorum cultu | discutiuntur & ven-|tilantur. | [motto: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 18: 1596: eights, sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 646: p. 11 beg. cisse tantùm, 111 am secundum, 501 bus Gentium: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “¶ 1” alone: (3) title: (5–12) dedicatory epistle to the earl of Essex, in Latin, Queen’s coll. Oxford, 7 July 1596: (13–15) “Index tractatuum, librorum, et capitum”: 1–609, the work in two books, preceded by an “Epistola ad Anglicorum Seminarioram alumnos Romæ & Rhemis” and preface, and followed by an “Admonitio ad lectorem”: 609–627, “Index locorum Sacræ Scripturæ”: 628–646, “Index rerum præcipuarum.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15. Hebrew Pica type occurs on p. 497 and elsewhere, both pointed and without points: and unpointed Long Primer on pp. 169, 451, 603, &c.
9. Unton, sir Henry. FVNEBRIA | NOBILISSIMI AC | PRÆSTANTISSIMI | EQVITIS, | D. Henrici Vntoni, | AD GALLOS BIS LEGATI | Regij, ibique nuper fato functi, | CHARISSIMÆ MEMORIÆ, | ac desiderio, à Musis Oxoniensi⸗|bus Apparata. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1596: sm. 4o: pp. [68], signn. ¶, A-G4, H2: sign. B 1r beg. Virtutis môvere: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1r title: ¶ 1v “Liber ad Lectorem,” Latin poem: ¶ 2r-¶ 2v, address “Benevolo lectori,” signed “Robertus Wright,” Trinity college, Oxford, 13 June 1596: ¶ 3r-H 2v, poems in memory of Unton, the only two not Latin being on sign. A 1r in Greek and Hebrew: see below.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 648. The first (unpointed) Hebrew type used at Oxford appears in the poem alluded to above, a Pica fount. Some (probably early) copies omit the preface, the ‘Liber ad Lectorem’ occurring on sign. ¶ 2r, the page preceding and following being blank.