Chapter II: Part 2

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In 1585 (or according to Wood and Ames, copied by Herbert and Dibdin,
in 1584) Edmund Bunny printed and published the first edition of an
adaptation of Parsons’ book fitted for Protestant readers “at London,
by N. Newton, for Iohn Wight,” 8^o. The dedication is to the archbp.
of York and the preface dated 9 July 1584 at Bolton-Percy. The book
was entered at Stationers’ Hall on 28 Aug. 1584. The Oxford edition
before us is a reprint of this London edition with no intentional
variation, except the omission of the arms of the archbishop of York
on the _verso_ of the title of the London issue. Some of the woodcut
ornaments and capitals of the two issues are identical.

In “1585, Aug. 30” Parsons again put out his book in a revised and
largely augmented form with a new title “A Christian Directorie” which
when complete was to consist of three books, the first of which,
treating of Resolution, is alone contained in this edition. The
preface contains a criticism of the London issue of Bunny’s
adaptation, which provoked “A briefe answer vnto those idle and
friuolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the
Resolution: By Edmund Bunny.” Lond., 1589, 8^o.

Other editions of Bunny’s adaptation of Parsons’ “Christian exercise”
are 1586 (Lond., “by I. Iackson and Ed. Bollifant for John Wight,”
12^o; in Herbert’s possession), 1589 (Lond., 12^o: Bohn), 1594 (Lond.,
24^o: Bohn), 1609 (Lond., 12^o: Bohn), 1615 (Lond., 12^o). See also
next art. Parsons’ own work was several times reprinted: and in 1591
appeared an edition of his “Christian Directorie,” anonymously
adapted, as the former work, for the use of Protestants, and with the
deceptive title “The second part of the booke of Christian Exercise,
appertayning to Resolution, or a Christian directorie ... written by
the former authour R. P.” (Lond., 12^o). This was several times
reprinted, as in 1592, 1594, 1598, 1615. See also Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©,
ii. 221: and the next art.

Impr. 2_a_ (colophon 4): 1585: sm. 12^o: pp. [30] + 492 + [2] + 140:
p. 11 beg. _what man_, 111 _Gospell, which_: also p. 11 _nounce all_,
111 _it they should_: chiefly Long Primer Roman. Contents:—as
preceding article, without the folded “Table” to Bunny’s treatise,
viz.:—p. (1) title: (3–9) epistle: (10–19) preface: (20–29) contents:
1–491, the treatise: (1) title: 1–140 Bunny’s treatise, with colophon.

This volume is apparently identical in text (not spelling or
punctuation) with the preceding art., but is entirely reset: from p.
252 of this edition (= 254 of the other) the two correspond page for
page in Parsons’ treatise.

Impr. 4: 1585: sm. 8^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B 1^r beg.
_passion, that_: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5)
Epistle “to the Christian reader”: (6–30), the sermon, on 1 Kings x.
9: (31–32) “A praier in consideration of the former respects.”

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 653. The Epistle is dated 27 Nov. 1585,
and alludes to Bilson’s book as “euen now comming foorth.”

8. Shepery, John. See 1586. S.

9. ¬Sparke¬, Thomas. “‘A Sermon preached at Cheanies the 14. of September, 1585, at the burial of the right Honorable the Earle of Bedford, by Thomas Sparke Doctor of Diuinitie.’ The university’s arms. ‘Imprinted at Oxford by _him_ Printer to that famous Vniuersitie.’ My copy is cut so close at bottom that it is uncertain whether there was any date added. Dedicated ‘To—Arthur Lord Gray of Wilton, Knight of—the Garter.—At Bletchley the 25 of September, 1585.—Thomas Sparke.’ The text, ‘Apocal. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heauen’ &c. At the end of the sermon ‘September 22. An. Do. 1585,’ Besides; 110 pages, W. H. 16^o.”

The above is the account of the book in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1399, in
the account of Joseph Barnes’s press at Oxford in 1585. The copy sold
in the Heber sale, 9 April 1835, Catal. pt. vi, p. 248, art. 3559 for
8_s._ was probably Herbert’s. Ames in his ©Typographical Antiquities©
(Lond. 1749) gives a shorter title and describes the book as a quarto.
Other edd. are Lond. 1585, in eights (pp. [10] + 106), and Oxf. 1594
(with 25 _December_ at end of dedication, pp. [10] + 110): but both
are different from the present book, if Herbert’s description may be
trusted.

1586.

1. ¬Case¬, John. “‘Reflexus speculi moralis, seu commentarius in magna moralia Aristotelis. Authore Johanne Caso.’ Again 1596. Octavo.”

The above is from Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1401, slightly altered from
Ames, p. 453: but both are probably errors for 1596: see 1596. C.

2. ¬Catilinariae proditiones.¬ “‘In Catilinarias proditiones, ac proditores domesticos, Odæ 6.’ The university arms. ‘Oxoniæ, ex Officina Typographica Josephi Barnesii, & veneunt in cœmeterio Paulino sub signo capitis Tygurini. Anno 1586.’ On the back, in a lozenge form, ‘Odæ sex ornatissimis viris D. Doctori Jameso Ædis Christi Oxon. decano, et doctori Hetono prodecano, cæterisque clarissimis atque optimis viris eiusdem ecclesiæ præbendariis, & privatæ observantiæ, et publicæ pietatis ergô dicatæ.’ 8 leaves, the first has only signature A. Brit. Museum. Octavo.”

The above is from Herbert’s Ames, iii. p. 1401. In May 1886 the
officials of the British Museum were unable to find the book. A copy
was sold at the Bliss sale in 1858 (Catal. pt. 2, art. 7) to Stenson a
bookseller for £4 4_s._

Impr. 2_b_: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C^8: sign. B 1^r
beg. _streight waie_: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3–10) Epistle dedicatory to Ambrose earl of Warwick, Oxf. 6 Oct.
1586: (11–44) the sermon, on John ix. 1–3: (45–47) “The prayer.”

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 716.

4. ¬Chardon¬, bp. John. “‘A comfortable sermon for all such as thirst and desire to be ioined with their head Jesus Christ, &c. Preached at the funerals of Syr Gawen Carewe, very worshipfully buried in the Cathedral Church of Exeter, 22d April, 1584, By John Charden bachelor of Divinity.’ The text, 1 Thes. 4; 13–18. Octavo.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1400: see Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 716,
Maunsell i. 97.

Impr. 5: 1586 (CIↃIↃXXCVI): (eights) 16^o: pp. [12] + 138: p. 11 beg.
σίον ἀυτοῦ, 111 πάντες συμφωνοῦσιν: chiefly Long Primer Greek.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–12) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Thomas
Bromley, lord chancellor of England, Oxf. 28 Dec. [1585]: 1–138, the
six Homilies, in Greek.

“Primitiæ typographici nostri in græcis literis preli,” as the
dedication says. The first Greek book printed in England was also a
Chrysostom (Two Homilies, Lond., Reg. Wolfe, 1543), but separate Greek
words occur in the first book printed at Cambridge (Cujusdam ...
Christiani Epistola, 1521), and single words cut in wood still
earlier. The six homilies are 1. Κατὰ τῶν παρατηρούντων τὰς νεομηνίας
(Migne, ©Patrol. Gr.©, Chrysost., i. 953.) 2–5. Εἰς τὸν Λάζαρον, αʹ,
βʹ, γʹ, δʹ (ibid. 963, 981, 991, 1005). 6. Εἰς τὸ Περὶ δὲ τῶν
κεκοιμημένων (ibid. 1017). See p. 12 (1565), Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii.
138.

An imperfect book, (signn. A 2-D 7), containing Isocrates Πρὸς
Δημόνικον, Πρὸς Νικοκλέα, Νικόκλης ἢ συμβουλευτικὸς λόγος τρίτος,
Plutarch Περὶ παιδῶν ἀγωγῆς and “Luciani Cupido,” all in Greek, once
owned by Thomas Hearne and now in the Bodleian Library, is in similar
type to this Chrysostom and is accordingly assigned by Hearne to
Barnes’s Press. But minute inspection shows that some of the woodcuts
of the book are not identical with any used at Oxford. It is probably
London printing (not Bynneman 1581 nor 1621: perhaps Bishop 1599: see
Brüggemann, p. 128.)

Impr. 4: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 219 + [1]: p. 11 beg. _that
is brought_, 111 _and this meditation_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatorie to the “lady Marie Dudley,” Oxford, 8
Mar. 1586, signed “T. P.”: (8–16) “To the Christian reader ...” with
the writer’s name, Th. Pie: 1–219, the paraphrase, the text of
Ecclesiastes occurring in the margin.

This book is a translation into English of “Sapientissimi regis
Salomonis concio de summo hominis bono quam ... Latini Ecclesiasten
vocant, in Latinam linguam ab Antonio Corrano ... versa et ex eiusdem
prælectionibus paraphrasi illustrata: accesserunt & notæ quædam”
(Lond., 1579) with the omission of the notes. For Ant. de Corro see
Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 578: and for Thomas Pye, _ibid._ ii. 59. Wood
was not acquainted with this earliest work of Pye, but alludes to the
book (as above, i. 581) as Corro’s “Sermons on Ecclesiastes. Abridged
by Thomas Pitt. Oxon 1585, oct., which is called by some Pitt’s
Paraphrase on Ecclesiastes”! The name Pitt, but not the error of date,
may be taken from Maunsell, who three times (i. 38, 81, 104) alludes
to the book as by Tho. Pitt. Pye in his Epistle states with respect to
the original Latin edition, “which treatise, as it came first to the
print, myselfe by occasion being charged with som ouerseeing of the
presse, at the earnest request aswel of the author himself, as of
other many, I translated into English: being the rather a greate deale
moued thereunto, because there was no comment or like exposition then
extant in our vulgar tongue vpon this part of Scripture.” This latter
statement is not strictly true, since “An exposition of Salomon’s
booke called Ecclesiastes” was printed in London in 1573. In 1585
Serranus’s commentary translated into English by T. Wilcocke was
printed in London.

Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16^o: pp. [32]: sign. B 2^r beg. _the
fould_: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication
to Roger Puleston: (5–30) the sermon, on Gal. 5. 12.

Rare. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 453. The only copy seen, that in
the British Museum, wants the last leaf, presumably blank.

Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B 2^r
beg. _are they_: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4)
dedication to Thomas Egerton: (5–32) the sermon, on Canticles ii. 15.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 452.

Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B 1^r beg.
_of body, sorrow_: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4)
dedication to sir E. Trafford: (5–32) the sermon, on Ps. cxxviii.

See Wood’s ©Fasti Oxon.©, i. 237. The marriage was between Margaret
Trafford and Sir Urian Legh, kt., of Adlington, a member of the same
College as the preacher.

Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 152: p. 11 beg. _Musicke of_,
111 _proper place_: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4)
dedication by the printer to “sir Walter Rawley”: (5–8) “The preface
to the Reader”: 1–152, the work in 12 chapters, with the sub-title
“The antiquitie and original of Musicke ...”

This work has been constantly attributed to John Case, the author of
the ©Apologia Musices©, Oxf. 1588, but the present writer believes
that from internal evidence it cannot be regarded as his. See Appendix
C, and Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 686. It was reprinted in the ©Choir and
Musical Record© 1864, by dr. Rimbault, who contributed an
introduction.

Impr. 7: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 75 + [5]: p. 11 beg. _many
wise_: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatory
to William Brent, Welsborne, 1 Apr. 1586: (8) Gen. xxxiii. 1–3: 1–75,
the treatise: (1–5) “A prayer against the enimies of the Church of
Christ ...”

This book was the “first fruits” of the author’s study.

N. pl.: n. d. (1586?): (eights) 12^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B
1^r beg. _lem, Demosthenem_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1–2) unknown:
(3) title: (5) three Quaestiones: (6–18) “Panathenaica prima, v. Id.
Iulii 1585. habita”: (19–20) three Quaestiones: (20–31) “Panathenaica
secunda, iii Id. Iulii 1586. habita.”

The Bodleian Catalogue suggests that these speeches are perhaps by
Thomas Savile (see Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 591), brother of sir Henry
Savile, both of Merton. There is no place of imprint, but probably it
is Oxford printing. Wood did not know the book.

Impr. 2: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [40], signn. A-B^8 C^4: sign. B 1^r
beg. _But al this_: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r “Aj.”: A 2^r,
title: A 3^r-A 4^r, “Iohn Rainoldes, to the Reader,” Oxford, 24 Oct.
1586: A 4^v, Ps. xvii. 47–51: A 5^r-C 4^v, the sermon, on Ps. xviii.
47–51: C 4^v, Ps xxi. 7–9.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 15. Reprinted at Oxford in 1613.
Occasioned by “Babington’s conspiracy”: there are several references
to current events.

Impr. 8: [1586]: (eights) 12^o: pp. [80], signn. *,A-D^8: sign. B 1^r
beg. _Scilicet expectas_: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. *1^r, title:
*2^r-*7^v, “Ioannis Schepreui præfatio, in epistolam Hyppoliti sui ad
Phædram, ad M. Guadum dedicatam,” in Latin elegiacs: *8^r-*8^v,
“Candido lectori Georgius Edrychus medicus S. P. D.,” a Latin preface:
A 1^r-D 8^r, the poem.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 135. This work is an imaginary reply of
Hippolytus to the temptations of Phaedra, in Ovidian elegiacs. The
author, John Shepery, of Corpus Christi College (“Somatochristianus”),
tells us in the preface that it was composed as a return for kindness
shown him by one Guadus (Wade ?, whom the editor describes as a
chaplain to Henry viii), but delayed for some years. Shepery died in
1542, aged 32 years. George Etheridge (“Edrychus”) was a pupil of
Shepery, fellow of Corpus, and a Roman Catholic.

The date is fixed at 1586 by two passages: Etheridge in his preface
states that for about 53 years he had been a member of the University:
he was admitted scholar of Corpus in Nov. 1534. Also Dr. Humphrey in
his introduction to the ©Summa et synopsis© (see below) alludes to the
©Hippolytus© as “nuperrime impressum.” Wood places the date at about
1584, and the Bodleian catalogue of 1843 assigns the book to 1542,
owing to the date of Shepery’s death, which happens to occur
prominently at the end of Etheridge’s preface.

Impr. 5: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [62], signn. A-B^8 C^9 (see below)
D^6: sign. B 1^r beg. _disticha Ioannis_: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign.
A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 8^r “Admonitio Laurentii Humfredi ad Studiosos”:
A 8^v, “Librorum Novi Testamenti elenchus & ordo per Cor. Graphæ ...”:
B 1^r-C 3^v “Disticha Ioannis Sheprevi ...”: verso of leaf after C 3-D
6^r, “Disticha ... in Editione Erasmi Roterodami inserta.”

The “Summa Ioannis Sheprevi” is a set of elegiac stanzas, each stanza
describing the contents of a chapter in the New Testament, and
beginning successively with the letters of the alphabet, written by
John Shepery, of Corpus Christi College, Reader of the Hebrew Lecture
from about 1537 to his death in 1542. The ©Summa© is stated by Wood to
have been first published at Strasburg in about 1556 by John Parkhurst
bp. of Norwich, next in Lond. 1560 (Wood), and from Humfrey’s ed. in
“Gemma Fabri,” Lond. 1598, and “Biblii (or Bibliorum) summula,” Lond.
1621, etc. The first distich is “A priscis oritur Christus, turbatur
Ioseph, | Angelus hunc retinet, virgo beata parit.” MS. C. C. C.
(Oxf.) 266 contains these verses.

The “Synopsis” is a similar set of elegiac stanzas, without the
alphabetical succession of first letters, first inserted in the Latin
editions of Erasmus’s New Testament, from that of 1542 on. The author
appears to be unknown: the first distich is “Angelus in somnis iustum
solatur Ioseph, | Prototoco Mariæ nomen Iesus erit.”

In the preface Dr. Humfrey states that his object in editing the book
was to recall young students to the study of the text of the Bible,
and that he had collated a MS. copy of the ©Summa© with bp.
Parkhurst’s edition, and had compared different editions of the
©Synopsis©: he alludes also to the Hippolytus of Shepery as “nuperrime
impressum.”

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 135, 560. Dr. Philip Bliss noted in his
copy “Whoever wants to write a history of the Oxford press should
first get together all the little vols printed by Jo. Barnes, of which
this is one of the rarest.”

Impr. 9*: 1586: 12^o in size.

Only known from a title-page in the British Museum (Bagford
Collection, 463. h. 8, no. 456). Mentioned in Ames and Herbert’s Ames,
but not in such terms as to prove that either editor had seen the book
complete. For the reference to the British Museum and a transcript of
the title I am indebted to Mr. E. G. Duff, of Wadham College, Oxford.

17. ¬Westfaling¬, Herbert. “‘Articles Ecclesiasticall to be inquired of by the Church-wardens and the Sworne-men within the dioces of Hereford in the first visitation of the reuerend father in God, Harbart Bishop of the said dioces: this present yeare M . D . lxxxvi and the xxviii. yeare of the raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. And so hereafter, till the next visitation, and from time to time to be presented.’ B, in fours: 70 articles. W. H. Quarto.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1401.

1587.

1. [Bailey, Walter.] A briefe discours of certain Bathes ... neare vnto ... Newnam Regis, 1587.

Probably not printed at Oxford, but at London, though ascribed to the
former place in the British Museum Catalogue.

Impr. 6_a_: 1587: (fours) 8^o: pp. [12] + 435 + [1]: p. 11 beg. _and
because no_, 111 _with all rigor_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3–6) epistle dedicatory to the earl of Leicester: (7–12) “The
Argument of the xlv. Psalme, seruing for an Argument of ... the
Canticle of Canticles ...”: 1–435, the sermons (thirty-one) on the
Song of Solomon chapp. 1–3.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 138. The best account of this work will
be extracts from the Epistle dedicatory. John Harmar the translator
was in this year Proctor, Regius professor of Greek and Fellow of New
College. He says, “I was requested, right honorable, by manie of my
friends to emploie the time of this last vacation of mine from my
publique readinges in the Vniuersitie, in the translating of Master
Bezaes Sermons vpon the Canticle of Canticles, which I had a little
before receaued from the Francfurt mart in French, into our vulgare
and Mother tongue.” The patronage of Lord Dudley is acknowledged and
details of the translator’s life are given, as that he attended Beza’s
lectures and sermons at Geneva. The work translated was no doubt
Beza’s “Sermons sur les trois premiers chapitres du Cantique des
cantiques de Salomon,” _Genève, Jehan le Preux_, 1586, 8^o (Brunet).

3. ¬Case¬, John. “‘Thesaurus oeconomiae, seu commentarius oeconomica Aristotelis. Authore Johanne Caso.’ Again 1598. Quarto.”

So Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1402, after Ames: but perhaps an error for
1597.

4. ¬Legatus.¬ DE LEGATO ET ABSOLV-|TO PRINCIPE PERDV-|ELLIONIS REO. | [_device._]

Impr. 10: 1587: (eight) 12^o: pp. [16], sign. A^8: p. (11) beg. _su
fortuito_: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–16) the treatise.

This anonymous treatise is a formal and precise legal argument on the
question “Utrum legatus alicuius principis absoluti vel ipse princeps
absolutus morte sit afficiendus, si in aliena republica, contra vitam
principis vel salutem totius reipublicae, nefariam coniurationem
fuerint machinati.” It was intended to support Queen Elizabeth in her
resolution to execute Mary Queen of Scots, and seems to have been
written after 4 Dec. 1586 (p. 13) and before the execution 8 Feb.
1587: but there is no clue to the author.

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. 62 + [2]: p. 11 beg. _The
Necessity_: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–10, “To al
that mourn in Sion ...”: 11–62, the work: (1) “To the reader”
explanation and erratum.

The author’s name nowhere occurs, but there can be but little doubt
that the volume was written by John Penry of St. Alban hall, Oxford
(B.A. 1586), who is conspicuous in the Marprelate controversy and who
published ©An exhortation vnto the Gouernours and people of Wales, to
labour earnestly to haue the preaching of the Gospell planted among
them© (n. pl. or d., and n. pl. 1588): and also ©A View of ... publike
wants & disorders ... in the service of God ... within Wales©, n. pl.
1588. The author says, p. 63, “Some rumor of the speedy dissolution of
the Parliament enforced me from the 32 Pag. or there abouts (so much
being already vnder the presse) to cut off more of the booke by two
parts than is now in the whole.” Parliament sat in 1586 from 28 Oct.
to 2 Dec. and not during 1587. At pp. 53–4 Penry alludes to the state
of the Universities. Wood does not know of this work, and the best
account of the author is in Cooper’s ©Athenæ Cantabr.©, ii. 154.

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 317 + [3]: p. 11 beg.
_moment_, 111 _dangerous_: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3–7), dedication to John Pierce bishop of Salisbury, Oxford, 30 Jan.
“1587”: 1–317, the work: (2–3) unknown.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 653. Compiled from notes of fortnightly
discourses at Abingdon.

Impr. 5: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. [88]: p. 11 beg. _ignorantiam_: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. 1 “A”: 3, title: 5–8, “Iohannes Rainoldus
Academicis Oxoniensibus S. P. D.,” with preface following, Oxf. 2
Feb.: 9–85, the two Orations.

These are general exhortations to study, selected out of twenty
orations of the kind. They are reprinted in the various editions of
Rainolds’s Orations. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 15.

Impr. 5: 1587: sm. 4^o: pp. [96], signn. *, A-L^4: sign. B 1^r beg.
_Et verò_: Pica Roman and Italic. Contents:—sign. *1^r, title:
*2^r-3^v, Epistola dedicatoria to the earl of Leicester, signed
“Guilielmus Gagerus,” Oxf., 22 Oct. 1587: *4^v, Latin poem by Laurence
Humfrey: A 1^r-L 4^v, the poems, in Latin: L 4^v, an erratum.

Sir Philip Sidney died at Arnheim 7 Oct. 1586. Dr. William James, dean
of Christ Church, urged W. Gager to collect and edit poems which had
been privately made at the time of Sidney’s death: the editor found it
necessary from considerations of space to reject Hebrew, Greek, French
and Italian poems, but it may be doubted whether the printer possessed
Hebrew type. See next art.

Impr. 11: 1587: sm. 4^o: pp. 54 + [2]: p. 11 beg. _Cur temet_: Pica
Roman and Italic. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–4, dedication to Henry
Herbert earl of Pembroke, in Latin, by “Ioannes Luidus,” New college,
Oxford, 26 Aug. 1587: 5–54, the work: 54, two errata.

The title is an allusion to the spurious Peplus of Aristotle, a
commemoration of the heroes who fell before Troy. The editor was John
Lhuyd, and the poems (almost all Latin) are all by New College men,
among whom the earl of Pembroke, Sidney’s brother-in-law, had been
educated. See preceding art., and Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 523.

Impr. 5: (1587): (eight) 16^o: pp. [16], sign. A^8: p. (11) beg.
_Atque hic_: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1 unknown: A 2^r, title: A
2^v, introduction to the speech, in Latin: A 3^r, dedication to lord
Leicester by “Ioh. Sprint” dean of Bristol: A 3^r-A 7^v, the speech,
16 Apr. 1587: A 8^r, “In aduentum Illustrissimi Comitis Leicestrensis
cùm primùm Cancellarius Oxoniensis Academiam accederet” (29 Aug.
1566?), a poem of 13 hexameters, the initial letters of the words
forming a complimentary wish.

Extremely rare: see Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 333, where the poem &c.
is reprinted.

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 1047 + [9]: p. 11 beg. _alone
is it_, 111 _iecting it of_, 1001 _Now we haue_: Long Primer Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to
the earl of Pembroke, signed by Parry: (9–15) “To the Christian
readers,” by Parry: 1–1047, the work: (2–9), “A table ...” of
contents.

Other editions were printed at Oxford in 1589, 1591, 1595, 1601. The
work, which is a commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, appears to be
a cento from the Tractationes Theologicae of Ursinus (vol. 1, 1587,
fol.). See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 192. Parry’s Prefaces are
reprinted in 1600. U.

1588.

Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [6] + 78 (“77”): p. 11 beg. _am,
Lydiam_: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication
“Henrico Vntono et Guilielmo Hattono ... Io. Ca. S. P. D.,” with
preface signed “I. C.,” Oxf. 30 Nov. 1588: 1-“77” the work.

Rare. By John Case, cf. 1586. M, Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 686. The
dedication is to two persons for their fathers’ interest in music.
Sign. F consists of F 1 & F 3 only, paged 74–77 instead of 75–78.
Copies usually have a border, &c. of red ink lines, throughout.

Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [36] + 740 + [12]: p. 11 beg.
_regni plusquam_, 111 _Communitas_: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (2) 4 verses to the author from the “Sphæra Civitatis”! with a
curious engraving of the sphere surmounted by the head and shoulders
of the queen: (3) Latin poem to the author signed “Richardus Late-War”
pres. of St. John’s college: (5–9) Epistola dedicatoria to Christopher
lord Hatton: (10–25) “Ad Christianum lectorem,” 11 May 1588: (26–28)
complimentary poems: (29–36) “Quæstiones et dubia quæ in octo libris
Politicorum continentur,” a table of contents: (36) two complimentary
poems: 1–740, the work: (1–4) “Peroratio operis,” 11 May, 1588: (5–11)
“Rerum contentarum index.”

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 686. A commentary on the Politics of
Aristotle, made into a general political treatise. On 16 July 1590
Barnes petitioned for a decree of Convocation that every determining
bachelor should purchase this work, but it does not appear that any
action was taken on the petition. Reprinted at Frankfurt in 1616.

Impr. 6: 1588: sm. 4^o: pp. [10] + 212 + [2]: p. 11 beg. _God,
committed_, 111 _lowest partes_: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title:
(3–9) Epistle dedicatory by Thomas Sparke and John Seddon to Arthur
lord Grey of Wilton, Bletchley, 30 Jan. 1587: 1–61, the treatise on
catechising, signed by Sparke: 62, a prayer: 63–194, the catechism:
195–211, prayers, with a confession of the faith: 212 “Causes why men
doe not vnderstand the holie Scriptures,” &c.

Rare. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 190 (bis). This is the Heidelberg
Catechism translated into English by Thomas Sparke and John Seddon,
with scriptural proofs annexed to each paragraph, and a long treatise
on catechising. See next art.

Impr. 6: 1588: (eights) 12^o: pp. [12] + 274 (?): p. 11 beg. _the
greatnes_, 111 _I beleeue_: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title: (3–11)
Epistle, as before: 1–80, the treatise, as before: 81, “The causes
...” &c. as before at end: 82, a prayer: 83–254, the catechism:
255–274, prayers &c. as above.

This is a reprint of the preceding quarto edition, with slight
varieties of spelling, arrangement, &c.: the type is newly set up
throughout.

Impr. 6: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [24] + 192: p. 11 beg. _as R.
Holcot_, 111 _Kent, Roger_: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2)
“The Dialogue and talk of Dauid ...” (1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12): (3–17)
Epistle dedicatory to the earl of Leicester, Oxf., “Decemb. 28”
[1587], furnishing the author’s full name: (18–24) “A table of the
special points and common places”: (24) “Faultes escaped correct
thus,” six: 1–192, the seven sermons, on 1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12.

Very rare. Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.© (i. 560) represents this as a London
book, but Maunsell (i. 100) and Herbert (iii. 1403) testify to this
Oxford edition. The Bodleian copy wants the title and all after p.
186, the account of which is from a very accurate description
obligingly supplied from a copy in the Peterborough Cathedral Library
by the Bishop of Leicester in Dec. 1888.

Impr. 6_b_: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B 1^r
beg. _ventereth his_: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A
2^r-A 3^v, Epistle dedicatorie to the bp. of Winchester, Oxf. 7 Dec.
1588: A 4^r-B 7^r, the sermon, on Ps. xxiii. 4: B 7^v, 2 Kings vi.
15–16.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 653. The Marprelate controversy and the
defeat of the Armada are mentioned.

7. ¬Sparke¬, Thomas. “Treatise to prove that Ministers publicly, and Householders privately, are bound to catechise their Parishioners and Families &c. Oxon. 1588. oct.”

So Wood (©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 190): the treatise is part of the Catechism
above, and is unlikely to have been separately issued.

Impr. 7_a_: 1588: (eight) 12^o: pp. [16], sign. A^8: p. (11) beg. _The
heauens_: Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title, within a
border: A 1^v “E. D. _Libenter hic & omnis exantlabitur_ | _Labor, in
tuæ spem gratiæ_,” [Hor. Epod i. 23–4], within a border: “H” 2^r-A
8^r, Idylls 8, 11, 16, 18, 21, 31 of Theocritus.

The only copy known is in the Bodleian. It was reprinted in 1883 at
the private press of Mr. C. H. Daniel of Worcester College, Oxford.
Each idyll is preceded by an “argument” and followed by an “embleme”
or motto. It has been suggested that E. D. to whom the dedication is
addressed, may be Edward Dyer. This is the first Oxford _édition de
luxe_, except perhaps the xvth. cent. issues on vellum.

1589.

Impr. 1_a_: 1589: (eights) 12^o: pp. [88], signn. A-E^8, F^4: sign. B
1^r beg. _luat: aut_: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A
1^v, “Tituli” of the 22 Exercises: A 2^r, “Philologo”: A 3^r-F 3 (“A
3”)^v, the exercises: F 3^v, note that the 3rd Exercise is out of its
place: F 4, unknown.

Very rare. Twenty-two short anonymous exercises in Latin prose, such
as would serve for College or University disputations. By a Magdalen
man, the “Epitaphius” being on William of Waynfleet, cf. the Phasma,
&c.

Impr. 6_b_: (1589): (eights) 12^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B^8: sign. B 1^r
beg. _blessing: no_: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A
2^r-A 2^v, dedication to Thomas Egerton: A 3^r-B 8^r, the sermon, on
Cant. iv. 7.

See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 452, where the book is divided into two,
without cause.

3. ¬Rider¬, John. BIBLIOTHECA | SCHOLASTICA. | A DOVBLE DICTIONARIE, | Penned for all those that would haue within short | space the vse of the Latin tongue, either to speake, or write. | _Verie profitable and necessarie for Scholers, Courtiers, Lawyers and their_ | Clarkes, Apprentices of London, Travellers, Factors for Marchants, | and briefly for all Discontinuers within her Majesties realmes | of England and Ireland. | _Compiled by_ Iohn Rider, _Master of Artes, and preacher of Gods word_. | [_device._] |

{ First reade { With others c... { Then censure

_Read the Preface, Le..._ | [_imprint_] | Cum privile... |

Impr. 12: 1589: (eights) sm. 4^o. pp. [12] + 1800 columns. 3 in a page
+ ? : col. 111 beg. _Belching_, 1001, _Notched_: Minion.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir Francis Walsingham,
signed “Iohannes Riderus,” Oxford, 1 Oct. [1589], in Latin: (5) “To
the Reader,” signed “Ioh. Ridir,” 30 Sept.: (6) “Directions for the
Reader”: (7) “Rideri gratitudinis carmen, ad suum prænobilem
Mecænatem,” acrostics “Comiti Sussexio” and “VVilielmo VVaddo”: (8–12)
complimentary Latin verses to the author: coll. 1–1800, the work,
English-Latin: (?)

Very rare. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 457, ©Notes and Queries©, 6th
S. iv. 274. The above description is from a copy of the first part,
with damaged title, in the Bodleian. Rider claims that the Dictionarie
is the first “that hath the English before the Latine, with a ful
Index of al such latine words as are in any one common Dictionarie”
and that it has 4000 more words than any other. He acknowledges the
pecuniary help of the earl of Sussex and Will. Waade. The book is a
“retort courteous” to the Cambridge dictionary by Tho. Thomas of 1588.
Several edd. were subsequently issued (see 1627. H), and Thomas
Holyoke refashioned it.

So in the ©Catalogue of the ... library of ... Benjamin Heywood Bright
... which will be sold by auction ... 1845©, art. 5276, p. 331.
Extremely rare. J. Payne Collier once saw a copy (©Notes and Queries©,
1st S. i. 18, 1849), the imprint being nearly as No. 5_b_. There were
copies in the Farmer sale (1798, sold to lord Spencer) and Inglis sale
(1826). In ©Notes and Queries©, _ibid._, p. 12 is printed a letter
from John Aylmer bp. of London to the Lord Treasurer about “this
foolish rime.” The London reprint, which contains a Latin version said
not to be in the Oxford edition (but query?) “imprinted at London for
Toby Cooke, 1589” (sm. 4^o, 8 leaves), is not uncommon. See also
Brydges, ©Censura Literaria©, 2nd ed., p. 18, Ames and Herbert’s Ames.

Impr. 6: 1589: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg.
_nister comfort_, 111 _might fal?_, 501 _father al_: Long Primer
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl
of Pembroke, signed by Parry: (9–15) “To the Christian readers,” by
Parry: 1–966, the work: (1–9) “A Table ...” of contents.

See 1587. U. It is noteworthy that the change from u consonantal to v
can be traced in progress by a comparison of this title with that of
the first edition.

1590.

Impr. 5: 1590: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1] + 134 + [2],
(signatures continuous): p. 11 beg. _cana rerum_, also _tur. Sed
potest_, 111 _li, tendones_: Brevier Roman (1st part), Pica Italic
(2nd and 3rd parts). Contents:—p. (1), title: (3–5) epistola
dedicatoria to Christopher lord Hatton by J. Williams: (6–7) “Ad
lectorem,” a preface, mentioning some errata: (8) title of Bacon’s
treatise, and a poetical Latin “R. Baconi vita”: 1–31, Bacon’s
treatise: 1–29, Urso’s treatise: 33–134, Williams’s treatise, signed
at end by the author.

Impr. 13: 1590: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 23 + [1]: p. 11 beg. _rum vos non_:
Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1), “¶j”: (3) title: (5–8) dedication
“Roberto Devoraxio ... comiti Essexio,” Oxford, 24 Dec. 1590: 1–23,
the treatise.

Rare. See Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, ii. 91. The author says that he has a
treatise ready prepared defending the precise opposite of the present
argument.

Impr. 11: 1590: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 33 + [4] + 39 + [4], signn.
¶^4, A-E^8: p. 11 beg. οὐχ οὕτως, also _ramo Moses_ or _sim vt_: Long
Primer Greek and Latin. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to
Roger Gifford physician to the King by Ioannes Luidus, in Latin,
Oxford, 29 Sept. 1590: 1–33, & (1), text of Josephus: (2–4) “Veterum
de hocce Iosephi libello elogia”: 1 (“6”)-39, Latin tr. of Josephus:
(1–3) “Adversaria” including various readings: (3–4) “Castigationes.”

4. ¬Trigge¬, Francis. “Comment. in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590.”

5. ¬Trigge¬, Francis. “Noctes sacræ seu lucubrationes in primam partem apocalypseos in quibus perspicue docetur quænam sit vera ecclesia, et quæ falsa, quod hoc seculo tam multos in religione et fide suspensos tenet, &c. Oxon. 1590, 4to. RAWLINSON.”

So in Bliss’s ed. of Wood’s ©Ath. Oxon.©, i. 760. A copy was sold in
the Davis sale at Oxford in 1686 (Catal. pt. 1, p. 26).

1591.

Impr. 4: 1591: 8^o 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 6–9/16 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.”

Impr. 15: 1591: sm. 4^o: 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.”

Impr. 4: 1591: 8^o: 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.

[Colophon on sign. H 2^r:—] impr. 14: [on titlepage:—M . D . LXXXXI]
1591: (sixes) la. 8^o: 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.

Impr. 1_a_: 1591: sm. 4^o: 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.

Impr. 6: 1591: (eights) 12^o: 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.

Impr. 11: 1592: sm. 4^o: pp. [40], signn. ¶, A-D^4: sign. B 1^r beg.
ἀξιοῦσθαι χειροτονίας: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—¶ 1^r, “¶ j”: ¶
2^r, title: ¶ 2^v, arms of Buckhurst engraved on metal: ¶ 3^r-¶ 4^r,
epistle dedicatory to Thomas Sackville lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl
of Dorset, 1 Jan. “1592,” i. e. 1591/2: A 1^r-B 3^r, the Greek text: B
4^r-D 3^v, 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. 16^o: (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.

Impr. 6: 1592: sm. 4^o: 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.”

Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 12^o: 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.

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