──────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────────────────
NO. BOOK. │ DATE. │ PRINTER │ PLACE NAMED.
│ │ NAMED. │
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1 ¬Burley¬ on │1517 Dec. 4 │————————— │Academia Oxonie
Aristotle │ │ │
2 ¬Dedicus¬ │1518 May 15 │J. Scolar[15]│Celeberrima Universitas
│ │ │ Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
3 ¬De Luce¬ │1518 June 5 │J. Scolar[15]│Celeberrima Universitas
│ │ │ Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
4 ¬Burley’s¬ │1518 June 7 │J. Scolar[15]│Celeberrima Universitas
Principia │ │ │ Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
5 ¬Whittington¬ │1518 June 27 │J. Scolar │Oxonia
6 ¬Laet¬ (1518?)│———————————— │————————— │Celeberrima Oxoniensis
│ │ │ Academia
7 ¬Compotus¬ │“1519” Feb. 5│C. Kyrfoth │Celeberrima Universitas
│ │ │ Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
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NO. BOOK. │ PAGES. │LINES│ LARGE │HEAD │ WOODCUTS.
│ │ IN │CAPITALS.│LINE.│
│ │PAGE.│ │ │
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1 ¬Burley¬ on │ 20 │ 55 │ + │ ⨀ │Oxf. & Royal Arms
Aristotle │ │ │ │ │
2 ¬Dedicus¬ │152 (foliated)│ 56 │ + │ + │Oxf. & Royal Arms
3 ¬De Luce¬ │ 16 │55–6 │ + │ + │Oxf. & Magi
4 ¬Burley’s¬ │ 16 │ 57 │ ⨀ │ + │Oxf. & Royal Arms &
Principia │ │ │ │ │ Scholar
5 ¬Whittington¬ │ 20 │ 59 │ ⨀ │ + │Oxf. & Scholar
6 ¬Laet¬ (1518?)│ [broadside: no complete copy known]
7 ¬Compotus¬ │ 16 │31–2 │ ⨀ │ + │Oxf. & Scholars &
│ │ │ │ │ Hands
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Footnote 14:
In 1528 we find a John Scolar, probably identical with the Oxford
printer, printing a Breviary at Abingdon near Oxford for the use of
the Abbey.
Footnote 15:
With privilege.
APPENDIX C.
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PERSONS AND PROCEEDINGS CONNECTED WITH
BOOK-PRODUCTION AT OXFORD, A.D. 1180–1640.
Three districts in Oxford are associated with the early production of
books.
One is Bookbinders Bridge, which is still standing, namely the bridge
which as one starts from close under the Castle in Titmouse Lane towards
St. Thomas’s Church, crosses the second piece of water. The bridge was
on the limits of Oseney Abbey and the neighbouring tenements were
largely occupied by binders who worked for the Abbey. See Clark’s
edition of Wood’s ©History of the City©, i. 433.
Schidyard St., now Oriel St., is said to imply by its name that it was
the locus schediasticorum, the place of writers on _schedae_ or sheets
of paper. Certainly with St. John Baptist St. (now Merton St.) and Cat
St., it was a great centre for scribes, illuminators, bookbinders, and
the like. See Clark’s Wood, as above, i. 139, 175, 184.
Also Cheney Lane, earlier St. Mildred’s Lane, and now Market St., was
largely tenanted by the same class. See Clark’s Wood, i. 72.
The stationarius (or virgifer) of the University was regularly appointed
(see Clark’s ©Register of the University©, vol. ii, pt. 1, p. 261), and
was generally employed to value the books of a scholar after death or
sequestration.
But these general facts require to be supplemented by the details which
follow: with respect to which it must be remembered that many persons
combined several of the trades here recorded, and that, for instance,
the earliest printers always bound the books they produced.
[_Chief Authorities_:—
Coxe. = Catalogus codicum MSS. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus
hodie adservantur. Confecit H. O. Coxe. (Oxf. 1852.)
Kirchhoff, Albrecht: Die Handschriftenhändler des Mittelalters. Zweite
Ausgabe. (Leipz. 1853), pp. 132, 136.
Magd. = Notes from the muniments of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford,
by the rev. W. D. Macray. (Oxf. 1882.)
Oxf. City Doc. = Oxford City Documents, 1268–1665, edited by J. E.
Thorold Rogers. (Oxf. Hist. Soc. vol. xviii, 1891.)
Twyne. = Brian Twyne’s manuscript collections in the Oxford University
archives.
Oxf. Univ. Archives—Wills. = An Index to Wills proved in the Court of
the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, by John Griffiths.
(Oxf. 1862.)]
(SCRIBES, ILLUMINATORS, BOOKBINDERS, STATIONERS AND BOOKSELLERS,
PARCHMENT-MAKERS, PRINTERS.)