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 4s.
3. Chardon, John. A SERMON | VPON PART OF | THE NINTH CHAPTER | OF THE HOLY GOSPEL | OF IESVS CHRIST | ACCORDING TO | S. IOHN: | Preached at S. Maries in | Oxford by Iohn Chardon | Doctor of Diuinitie. | [motto.]
Impr. 2b: 1586: (eights) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r 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.
5. Chrysostom, St. D. IOANNIS CHRY-|SOSTOMI ARCHIE-|PISCOPI CONSTANTI-|NOPOLITANI, Homiliæ sex, | Ex manuscriptis Codicibus Noui Collegij; | Ioannis Harmari, eiusdem Col-|legij socij, & Græcarum literarum in | inclyta Oxoniensi Academia | Professoris Regij, opera & | industria nunc primùm | græcè in lucem | editæ. | [device.]
Impr. 5: 1586 (CIↃIↃXXCVI): (eights) 16o: 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.)
6. Ecclesiastes. SOLOMONS SERMON: | OF MANS CHIEF | FELICITIE: CALLED | IN HEBREW KOHELETH, | IN GREEKE AND LATIN | ECCLESIASTES. | With a learned, godly, and familiar pa-|raphrase vppon the same: gathe-|red out of the Lectures of A. | C. & now englished for | the benefit of the | vnlearned. | [motto & device.]
Impr. 4: 1586: (eights) 16o: 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.
7. Hutchins, Edward. A SERMON | PREACHED IN S. | PETERS CHURCH AT | WEST-CHESTER THE XXV | OF SEPTEMBER, 1586. | CONTAINING MATTER | FIT FOR THE TIME: | By Edward Hutchins Maister | of Arts, and Fellowe of Bra-|zennose College. |
Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16o: pp. [32]: sign. B 2r 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.
8. Hutchins, Edward. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED IN WEST-|CHESTER THE VIII. | OF OCTOBER, 1586. | BEFORE THE IVD-|GES AND CERTAIN | RECVSANTES: | Wherein the conditions of al he-|retiques, but especiallie of stub-|born and peruerting Papists, | are discouered, & the duty | of al magistrats concer-|ning such persons, ap-|plied & opened | By Edward Hvtchins, Ma-|ster of Artes, & Fellowe of Bra-|SENNOSE Colledge. | ...
Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 2r 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.
9. Massie, William. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT TRAFFORD | IN LANCASHIRE AT | THE MARIAGE OF A | DAVGHTER OF THE | right Worshipfull Sir Ed-|mond Trafforde | Knight, the 6. of Sep-|tember Anno, 1586. | By William Massie bacheler in di-|uinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Col-|ledge in Oxforde. | [motto.]
Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r 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.
10. Music. THE PRAISE | OF MVSICKE: | Wherein besides the antiquitie, | dignitie, delectation, & vse there-|of in ciuill matters, is also decla-|red the sober and lawfull vse of the | same in the congregation and | Church of God. [device, then motto.]
Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16o: 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.
11. Overton, John. IACOBS | TROVBLE-|SOME IOVR-|NEY TO BE-|THEL: Conteining a briefe ex-|position, or excellent | Treatise of the four first | verses of the 33. Chapter | of GENESIS: | Set foorth by Iohn Over-|TON, Maister of Arts. | [motto.]
Impr. 7: 1586: (eights) 16o: 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.
12. *†Philosophy. DE | PHILOSO-|PHIA, | PANATHENA-|ICAE DUAE: | IN COMITIIS OXONII HABITAE. | [woodcuts and motto. The whole title is within a border.]
N. pl.: n. d. (1586?): (eights) 12o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r 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.
13. Rainolds, John. A SERMON | VPON PART | OF THE EIGH-|TEENTH PSALM: | Preached to the publik assem-|blie of Scholers in the Vniuer-|sitie of Oxford the last day | of August, 1586. by | Iohn Rainolds: | Vpon occasion of their meeting to giue | thankes to God for the late detection | and apprehension of Traitours, who | wickedlie conspired against the Queens Maiestie and the | state of the Realme. | [motto.]
Impr. 2: 1586: (eights) 16o: pp. [40], signn. A-B8 C4: sign. B 1r beg. But al this: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r “Aj.”: A 2r, title: A 3r-A 4r, “Iohn Rainoldes, to the Reader,” Oxford, 24 Oct. 1586: A 4v, Ps. xvii. 47–51: A 5r-C 4v, the sermon, on Ps. xviii. 47–51: C 4v, 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.
14. *Shepery, John. HYPPOLITVS OVIDIANÆ | PHAEDRAE RES-|PONDENS, PER IOAN-|NEM SCHEPREVVM SOMA-|TO CHRISTIANVM. | [device.]
Impr. 8: [1586]: (eights) 12o: pp. [80], signn. *,A-D8: sign. B 1r beg. Scilicet expectas: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. *1r, title: *2r-*7v, “Ioannis Schepreui præfatio, in epistolam Hyppoliti sui ad Phædram, ad M. Guadum dedicatam,” in Latin elegiacs: *8r-*8v, “Candido lectori Georgius Edrychus medicus S. P. D.,” a Latin preface: A 1r-D 8r, 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.
15. Shepery, John. SVMMA | ET SYNOPSIS | NOVI TESTAMEN-|TI DISTICHIS DV-|CENTIS SEXAGIN-|TA, QVAE TOTI-|DEM CAPITIBVS | RESPONDENT, | comprehensa: | Prior a IOANNE SCHEPREVO | Oxoniensi olim conscripta: Posterior ex Erasmi | Roterodami Editione decerpta: Tyrunculis & om-|nibus pietatis & Theologiæ candidatis non inutilis, à | Lavrentio Hvmfredo recognita, & iu-|uandæ memoriæ causâ, edita: | Cui præmissa est eiusdem | De Scholis & studijs Christianorum piè & metho-|dicè instituendis breuis Admonitio. | [motto by L. H.(umfrey).]
Impr. 5: 1586: (eights) 16o: pp. [62], signn. A-B8 C9 (see below) D6: sign. B 1r beg. disticha Ioannis: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 8r “Admonitio Laurentii Humfredi ad Studiosos”: A 8v, “Librorum Novi Testamenti elenchus & ordo per Cor. Graphæ ...”: B 1r-C 3v “Disticha Ioannis Sheprevi ...”: verso of leaf after C 3-D 6r, “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.”
16. Spanish. REGLAS GRAM-|MATICALES PARA A|PRENDER LA LENGVA ESPA-|n̄ola y Francesa, confiriendo la | vna con la otra, segun el or-|den de las partes de la o-|ration Latinas. | * *
* | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 9*: 1586: 12o 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.