The treatise of Tyrannius Rufinus on the Apostles’ Creed, here ascribed
to St. Jerome, was undoubtedly the first product of the Oxford press. It
bears the date of 17 December, 1468, as the day on which the printing
was finished. The colophon is clearly printed and bears no mark of
haste, nor does it show the smallest trace of alteration in any of the
copies seen by the present writer. Saturday is a reasonable day on which
to conclude a work. A facsimile of the colophon is given in plate II.
Unfortunately for the peace of the bibliographer two spectres have
haunted this book, one of which “pulveris exigui jactu” has been laid,
but the other is not yet gone, although there is a prospect of ultimate
eviction.