{ Seu ORBIS LITERA⸗ RVM provt in florentissimâ iam et omnium
planè celeberrimâ
[_device_]
{ ACADEMIA OXONI⸗ ENSI singulis Terminis publicè in
Scholis auditoribus proponuntur
No imprint, but Oxford (?), 1635 (?): (one) la. 4^o. Contents:—p. (1)
the Encyclopædia.
This is a fine sheet, engraved by “T. Cecill” on metal, 16–3/16 ×
16–1/16 in. In the upper part there is a dedication of “hæc
Encyclopædia et Synopsis Statutorum” to archbp. Laud. A large series
of concentric circular spaces fill the centre, each divided into a
left hand and right hand half:—counting from the centre (a sun), (1)
days of the week, (2) hours of the day, (3) subjects, (4) explanation
of the next circle, (5) List of proper audience and books for each
lecture: (6) explanation of the next circle, (7) lists of fines for
absent professors and absent audience: in the four corners are notes,
one of which supplies another title for the sheet, namely “Cyclus
Prælectorum ... ex Corpore Statutorum depromptus et delineatus ...”.
Some copies (issued in 1638, see below) have a small printed label
“Iovis” pasted over “Martis”, or else the plate itself altered to
“Iovis”, in the note that Easter Term ends on the _Tuesday_ before
Pentecost, and a longer slip pasted at the foot containing a note
about the teaching of Arabic and Medicine.
The chart is usually found folded and pasted in the 1638 edition of
the abridged Statutes: but a copy in the University Archives is pasted
_between_ the two columns of the 1635 ©Synopsis Statutorum©, which in
combination with the dedication quoted above suggests that it was
first issued in 1635, a natural year for it, when the interest in the
new Code of Statutes was fresh. There is nothing to suggest that it
was printed away from Oxford. The device in the title is a well-made
representation of the University arms with the motto “Sapientiæ et
felicitatis”.
Thomas Crossfield of Queen’s certainly edited the 1638 ©Statuta
selecta©, and may have issued the ©Synopsis© (which is in his style),
and possibly therefore the ©Encyclopædia©. At any rate he took the
plate of the ©Encyclopædia© and used it in 1638. It is in his own copy
of the ©Statuta selecta© that the altered plate is found (see above);
and the note about Arabic and Medicine is there in his own handwriting
preceded by a ☛, just as in the printed slip.
14. ——. _SYNOPSIS SEV EPITOME STATVTORVM_, | _Eorum præsertim, quæ
Iuventuti Academ._ Oxon: _maximè_ | _expedit pro Doctrinâ & Moribus
habere cognita._ |
Impr. 153: 1635: (one) folio: pp [2]: 2nd col. beg. _Tempus ad
Gradus_: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) the Synopsis, in two
columns.
These are extracts from the newly printed Corpus Statutorum, for the
use of junior members of the University, but the fuller edition in
book form first issued in 1638 (which see,) was taken as the model for
all succeeding issues. The title heads the first column, and the
colophon ends the 2nd. See the preceding article, for possible
authorship.
Persius. The statement by Wood (©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, iii. 523) that
there is a 1635 _Oxford_ edition of Barten Holyday’s translation of
Persius, which deceived Brüggemann, is erroneous: the edition referred
to was printed at London.
15. ¬Rives¬, John, archdeacon of Berks. ARTICLES | MINISTRED IN | THE
FIRST VISITA-|tion of the right worshipfull M^r | IOHN RIVES Batchelour
of Law | Arch-deacon of the Arch-dea-|conry of _Berks_, in the yeare |
of our Lord God | 1635. | [_woodcut._]
Impr. 152 _a_: 1635: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg.
_Parishioners in_: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) the oath:
(4) the charge: 1–18, the 77 articles: 18, a direction: (1–2) not
seen.
16. ¬Rouse¬, John. APPENDIX | AD | CATALOGVM | LIBRORVM IN | BIBLIOTHECA
| BODLEIANA, | QVI PRODIIT | Anno Domini 1620. | [_line_] | EDITIO
SECVNDA | [_line_] | Recognita, & Authoribus plus minus CIↃCIↃCIↃ
locupletata. | [_device._]
Impr. 73: 1635: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 208: p. 11 beg. _App. Appianus
Alexand._: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4)
“Bibliothecarius lectori”: 1–208, the work.
See 1620 J. This is Rouse’s new edition of the little Appendix to the
1620 edition of the Catalogue. The MSS. are still mixed with the
printed books. The preface shows that Verneuil’s book, see below in
this year, could be regarded as a part of this work, though formally
distinct. Rouse’s name does not occur, but is necessarily inferred
from the preface.
17. [¬Verneuil¬, John]. CATALOGVS | INTERPRETVM | S. SCRIPTVRÆ, | IVXTA
NVMERORVM ORDINEM, | QVO EXTANT IN | BIBLIOTHECA | BODLEIANA_:_ | OLIM A
D. IAMESIO | _Jn vsum Theologorum concinnatus, nunc verò_ | _alterâ ferè
parte auctior redditus_. | Accessit elenchus Authorum, tam recentium
quam Antiquorum, qui | in quatuor libros Sententiarum & _Th. Aquinatis_
Summas, Item | in Euangelia Dominicalia totius anni, & de Casibus |
conscientiæ; nec non in Orationem Domi-|nicam, Symbolum Apostolorum, | &
Decalogum scripserunt. | _Editio correcta, diu multùmq; desiderata._ |
[_device._] |
Impr. 73: 1635: sm. 4^o: pp. 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. _Rab. Maurus_: Long
Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 3, title: 4, a preface: 5–55, the work.
See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, iii. 222. This is an anonymous and
much enlarged edition of pp. 163–179 of James’s Bodleian Catalogue
(Oxf. 1605): made by John Verneuil sublibrarian. The preface mentions
a pirated edition of this book, made without the knowledge of the
authorities of the Library, but no copy seems to be known. See
_Rouse_, above in this year.
18. ¬Wake¬, Isaac. REX | _PLATONICVS:_ | SIVE, | DE POTENTISSIMI |
PRINCIPIS | IACOBI | BRITANNIARVM REGIS, | ad Illustrissimam Academiam |
Oxoniensem, aduentu, | Aug. 27. Anno | M.DC.V. | _NARRATIO_ | _Ab_
ISAACO WAKE _Publico_ | _Academiæ ejusdem Oratore, tunc_ | _temporis
conscripta, nunc ite-_|_rum in lucem edita, mul-_|_tis in locis auctior
&_ | _emendatior._ | EDITIO QVINTA. | [_line._]
Impr. 151: 1635: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [8] + 239 + [17]: p. 11 beg.
_tur. Ipsoque_, 201 _sed istæ_: Long Primer Roman. Contents—p. (1)
title: (3–7) dedication as in 1st edition: 1–236, the work: 237–239,
the Chancellor’s letter with preface: (2) title:—ORATIO | FVNEBRIS |
HABITA IN | Templo Beatæ | M_ariæ Oxon._ | Ab ISAACO WAKE, | Publico
Academiæ Ora[/]|_tore; Maij_ 25. _An._ 1607. | quum mœsti Oxonienses,
| piis manibus IOHANNIS | RAINOLDI _parentarent_. | [_woodcut_, then
Impr. 151.]: (4–16) the oration.
See 1607 W. This appears to be a reprint of the 4th edition.
1636.
1. ¬Articles.¬ ARTICVLI | DE QVIBVS CONVENIT INTER | ARCHIEPISCOPOS, |
ET | EPISCOPOS VTRIVSQVE PROVINCIÆ, ET | Clerum vniversum in Synodo,
Londini. An. | 1562. secundum computationem Ecclesiæ | Anglicanæ, ad
tollendam opinionum dissentio-|_nem, & consensum in vera Reli-_|_gione
firmandum._ | _Æditi authoritate serenissimæ_ REGINÆ. | ITEM | Liber
quorundam Canonum | DISCIPLINÆ ECCLESIÆ | ANGLICANÆ. ANNO 1571. | 3. De
Episcopis. | 5. De Decanis Ecclesiarum. | 8. De Archi-diaconis. | 9. De
Cancellariis. &c. | 14 De Ædituis Ecclesiarum. | 19. De Concionatoribus.
| 20. De Residentia. | 21. De Pluralitatibus. | 21. De Ludimagistris. |
22. De Patronis. &c. [the last five lines are printed in a parallel line
with the first five, a line separating the two columns] | [_woodcuts_
between two _lines_.]
Impr. 151: 1636: sm. 4^o: pp. 24 + 23 + [1]: pp. 11 begg. _De
prædestinatione_, and _gendis sacris_: English Roman. Contents:—p. 1,
title: 3–24, the Articles: 24, “Confirmatio Articulorum”: 1,
half-title: 2, list of Canons: 3–23, the Canons: (1) “¶ Forma
sententiæ excommunicationis.”
2. ¬Barclay¬, John. IOANNIS | BARCLAII | POEMATVM | LIBRI DVO. |
[_line_] | _Editio postrema aucta._ | [_line_, then _device_.]
Impr. 153: 1636: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [14] + 100 + [2]: p. 11 beg.
_Fregit, & Auroræ_: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within
double lines: (3–6) dedication to prince (afterwards king) Charles,
from the 1615 ed.: (7–12) a Latin poem in Charles’s honour, _beg._
“Fama per attonitas”: 1–33, the poems, bk. 1: 34, “Ad benevolum
Lectorem”: 35, a title:—“IOANNIS | BARCLAII | POEMATVM | LIBER II. |
[_two lines_, then _woodcut_, then _two lines_]”, with impr. 87_a_:
37–66, the poems, bk. 2: 67–97 “Tumulus ... Gustavi Adolphi ...” a
poem, by C. B.: 98–100, five short Latin poems, signed at end “H. G.”
This appears to be a reprint of the 1615 (London) edition, with the
addition of the poem on pp. 64–100. The signatures indicate that pp.
67-end are an addition to the original book, but a catchword on p. 66
shows that the two parts are not independent. Only these two
(separate) editions of Barclay’s Poems were published: the author died
in 1621.
3. ¬Bushell¬, Thomas. THE | SEVERALL | SPEECHES AND | Songs, at the
presentment of | M^r BVSHELLS ROCK | TO THE | QVEENES | Most Excellent
Majesty. | _Aug._ 23. 1636. | HER HIGHNESSE | being Gratiously Pleased
to | Honour the said ROCK, not | only with HER | ROYALL _Presence_; |
BVT | COMMANDED THE SAME | to be called after her owne | _Princely name_
| HENRETTA. | [_line._]
Impr. 152: 1636: sm. 4^o: pp. [12], signn. A^4, B^2: sign. B1^2 beg.
_And returne_: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A1^r, title, within double
lines and woodcuts: A2^r-B2^r, the speeches and songs.
Rare. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, iii. 1010, where will be
found an interesting account of Bushell’s discovery of a peculiar rock
at Enstone near Oxford, and of the ceremonies with which it was
presented to the Queen. The speeches and songs, presented by a hermit,
the author himself, Echo, &c., were set to music by Simon Ive (see
sign. B2^r).
4. ¬Carpenter¬, Nathanael. PHILOSOPHIA | LIBERA, | [&c., exactly as 1622
C, omitting a comma in ll. 5, 7, and with “nova”, “Carpentario”,
“Collegii”, and “| Editio tertia, correctior |”]
Impr. 159: 1636: [&c., precisely as 1622 C, except that the first leaf
and the last two leaves have not been seen, p. 111 beg. _substantiali.
At nullam_, and the title is within a line.
See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, ii. 421, and 1622 C, of which this
is an almost exact reprint. Some copies bear the date 1637.
Downeham, George. See 1635 D.
5. ¬Felix¬, Marcus Minucius. M. MINVCII | FELICIS | OCTAVIVS. |
[_device._]
Impr. 69: 1636: (twelves) 24^o: pp. [8] + 129 + [7]: p. 11 beg. _bere,
quàm_, 111 _dicimus, non_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title within
two bounding lines, [&c. precisely as 1631 F.]
See 1627 F: this seems to be a reprint of 1631 F.
6. ——. MINVCIVS | FELIX | His dialogne called | _OCTAVIVS_. | Containing
a defence | of Christian | _religion_. | Translated by | RICHARD IAMES |
of C.C.C. OXON. | [_woodcuts._]
Impr. 155: 1636: twelves 24^o: pp. [8] + 165 + [19]: p. 11 beg. _to
heare both_, 111 _reputed Gods_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3–6) epistle dedicatory to lady Cotton: (7–8) “To the Reader”: 1–165,
the work: (2–12) three religious poems, “A Good Friday thought”, “A
Christmasse Caroll” (_beg._ “Since now the jolly season’s by”), “A
Hymn on Christs ascension”.
Scarce. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, ii. 630.
7. ¬Fitz-Geffry¬, Charles. THE BLESSED | BIRTH-DAY, | CELEBRATED IN |
some religious meditations | on the Angels Anthem. | LUC. 2. 14. | ALSO
HOLY | TRANSPORTATIONS | in contemplating some of the | most obserueable
adiuncts about | _our Saviours Nativity_. |
Extracted for the most { Sacred Scriptures, }
part out of the { Ancient Fathers, } And some moderne
{ Christian Poets. }
Approved Authors. | [_line_] | By CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY. | [_line_] | The
second Edition with Additions. |
Impr. 156: 1636: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 80: p. 11 beg. _If he in
time_: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, (3–5) “To the Devote
Author ...” a poem signed “Hen. Beesely _A.M. A.A._”: (7)
Complimentary poem to the author by Steph. Haxby of Cambridge: 1–47,
the Blessed Birthday, a poem: 48 “Votum Authoris ad Iesum ...”: 49–80,
the Transportations, 16 poems.
See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ed. Bliss, ii. 607. This is a reprint of the
first edition, see 1634 F, with some additions and the omission of the
poem before the second part. It is this second issue which Dr. Grosart
reprinted in 1881 in Fitz-Geffrey’s ©Poems©.
8. ¬Florus¬, Lucius Annaeus. THE | ROMAN | Histories of LUCI=|US IULIUS
FLORUS | _from the foundation_ | _of_ ROME, _till Cæsar_ | AUGUSTUS,
_for aboue_ | DCC. _yeares, & from then_⸗|_ce to_ TRAIAN _near_ CC. |
_yeares, divided by_ Flor’ | _into_ IV _ages._ | _Translated into_ |
ENGLISH |
Impr. 161: 1636: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [26] + 336: p. 11 beg. _wore,
being_, 301 _more luckie_: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1–2) not seen: (3)
engraved title, inserted: (5–10) Epistle dedicatory to George marquis
of Buckingham, signed “Philanactophil”: (11–19), “To the Reader”:
(20–24) “The preface of Lucius Florus”: (25–26) not seen: 1–336, the
Histories: 336 “The end of the foure Bookes of the Roman Histories ...
translated into English by E.M.B. Soli Deo gloria”.
The translator of this work, which first appeared in English at London
in 1618, was Edmund (Maria) Bolton. The present edition was printed in
London but published at Oxford, and the title is the engraved one of
1618, by Simon Pass, displaying in the upper centre a Roman, in the
lower centre the title, an eagle at top, and symbols and letterpress
about, and altered in the imprint only. The collation assumes that a
sheet of ten leaves could not be printed and that a blank leaf is
needed before and after the prefatory matter: the title is on an
inserted leaf. This edition was issued after the translator’s death,
and seems not to be entered in the London Stationers Company’s
Registers.
9. ¬Grotius¬, Hugo. DEFENSIO | ¤FIDEI CATHOLICƤ | DE | SATISFACTIONE |
¤CHRISTI,¤ | _Adversus_ | ¤FAVSTVM SOCINVM¤ | Senensem: | _Scripta ab_ |
¤HVGONE GROTIO¤. | [_line_] | ¤_Cum_ Gerardi Iohannis Vossii¤ | _ad
judicium_ Hermanni RA-|venspergeri _de hoc_ | LIBRO. | RESPONSIONE. |
[_line._]
Impr. 153: 1636: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [12] + 256 + [40] + 136: pp. 11
begg _Cruciatus_, and _hæc nostra_, 111 _Cap. vi_, and _tur. Paulus_:
Pica and (2nd part) Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10)
“Veritatis evangelicæ studiosis ...”, dated “_Lug. Batav._ in Collegio
Theolog. Ill. DD. Ord. _Holl_ & _Westf._ 8. _Kal. Sept._ An. Chri. CIↃ
IↃ cxviı. Ger. Ioannides Vossius, _Coll. Regens_”: (11–12) “Lectori”
by the unnamed editor: 1–219, the Defensio: 220–256 Testimonia
veterum: (1–16) an index in order of contents: (17) a bastard title to
the second part, with impr. 87 _a_, and date: (19–35) “Præfatio”,
signed “Ger. Ioannides Vossiun ...”: (37–40) “Lectori” by the editor:
1–136, the Responsio.
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. 4^o: 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) 12^o: 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. 112_a_: 1636: (eights) 12^o: 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. 4^o: 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. 4^o: pp. [92], signn. a, aa^4, aaa^2, aaaa,
a-d^4, e^2, A-C^4, D^2, and a folded leaf: sign. b1^r beg. _Diva
paris_, B1^r _From the wombs_: English Roman. Contents:—sign. a1^r,
title: a2^r-e2^v, Latin poems: A1^r-D1^v, English poems to the queen:
D2^r “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. 151_b_: 1636: sm. 4^o: 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:—A^1, B^4, C^4 (1), D^4 (2), E^4 (3), F^4 (4), G^4 (6),
H^4 (66: on 2nd leaf, 8). I^4 (5), K^1, L^4 (2), M^4, N^4 (1), O^4
(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
| S^r 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. 4^o: 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 M^r WILLIAM PINKE, | M^r of Arts late Fellow of |
Magdalen Colledge | in OXFORD. | [_motto_, then _line_] | THE THIRD
EDITION. | [_line_, then _woodcuts_.]
Impr. 160: 1636: (twelves) 16^o: 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
40^o 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. 153_a_: 1636: (twelves) 16^o: 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. 4^o: 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. 4^o: 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) 12^o: 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_ | Spec¤ulum 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) 16^o: pp. (48), signn. A-C^8: sign. B1^r
beg. _Saturne doth_: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A1^r title,
within border: A1^v-A4^r, preliminary notes: A4^v-B8^r, the Almanac:
B8^v-C8^v, 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) 12^o: 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) 16^o: 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. 4^o: 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 LINGVƤ | Sanctæ, ad amussim delineatur. | QuAM | ... [2 lines]
| ¤D. HENRICO WOTTON¤ | ... [2 lines] | _inscribit Author_ | ¤VICTORINUS
BYTHNER. _P._¤ |
Impr. 98_a_: 1637: la. 4^o, 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.