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.
2. Beza, Theodorus. MASTER BEZAES SER-|MONS VPON THE THREE | FIRST CHAPTERS OF THE | CANTICLE OF CANTICLES: | WHEREIN ARE HANDLED THE | CHIEFEST POINTS OF RELIGION | CONTROVERSED AND DEBATED BE-|TWEENE VS AND THE ADVERSA-|RIE AT THIS DAY, ESPECIALLY TOV-|CHING THE TRVE IESVS CHRIST AND | THE TRVE CHVRCH, AND THE CER-|TAINE & INFALLIBLE MARKS | BOTH OF THE ONE AND | OF THE OTHER. | TRANSLATED OVT OF FRENCH INTO | ENGLISH BY Iohn Harmar, HER HIGHNES | PROFESSOR IN THE GREEKE TOVNG | IN THE VNIVERSITIE OF OXFORD, | AND FELOWE OF THE NEWE | COLLEGE THERE. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 6a: 1587: (fours) 8o: 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, 8o (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) 12o: pp. [16], sign. A8: 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.
5. [Penry, John.] A TREATISE | CONTAINING | THE AEQVITY OF | AN HVMBLE SVPPLI-|CATION WHICH IS TO BE | EXHIBITED VNTO HIR | GRACIOVS MAIESTY AND | this high Court of Parliament | in the behalfe of the Countrey of | Wales, that some order may | be taken for the preaching of | the Gospell among those | people. | Wherein also is set downe as much of the | estate of our people as without offence | could be made known, to the end that | our case (if it please God) may be piti-|ed by them who are not of this assem-|bly, and so they also may be driuen to | labour on our behalfe. |
Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16o: 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.
6. Prime, John. AN | EXPOSITION, | AND OBSERVATI-|ONS VPON SAINT | PAUL TO THE GALA-|THIANS, TOGETHER | with incident Qæstions de-|bated, and Motives re-|moued, by | IOHN PRIME. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16o: 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.
7. Rainolds, John. IOHANNIS RAINOLDI | ORATIONES DUÆ: | Ex ijs quas habuit in Collegio | Corporis Christi, quum | linguam Graecam | profiteretur. | HABITÆ, QVVM STUDIA, DE | more per ferias intermissa, | repeterentur: | Prior, quæ duodecima, post vaca-|tionem Natalitiam; | Posterior, decima tertia, post va-|cationem Paschalem; | Anno 1576. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 5: 1587: (eights) 16o: 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.
8. Sidney, sir Philip. EXEQVIÆ | ILLVSTRISSIMI | EQVITIS, D. PHILIP-|PI SIDNAEI, GRATISSI-|MAE MEMORIAE AC NO-|MINI IMPENSÆ. | [device: then motto.]
Impr. 5: 1587: sm. 4o: pp. [96], signn. *, A-L4: sign. B 1r beg. Et verò: Pica Roman and Italic. Contents:—sign. *1r, title: *2r-3v, Epistola dedicatoria to the earl of Leicester, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus,” Oxf., 22 Oct. 1587: *4v, Latin poem by Laurence Humfrey: A 1r-L 4v, the poems, in Latin: L 4v, 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.
9. Sidney, sir Philip. PEPLVS | ILLVSTRISSIMI | VIRI D. PHILIPPI | SIDNAEI SVPRE-|MIS HONORIBVS | DICATVS. | [woodcut, then two mottos.]
Impr. 11: 1587: sm. 4o: 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.
10. Sprint, John. AD | ILLVSTRIS-|SIMOS COMI-|TES WARWICENSEM | ET LEICESTRENSEM ORA-|TIO GRATVLATORIA | BRISTOLLIÆ HABITA | APRIL. ANNO | 1587. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 5: (1587): (eight) 16o: pp. [16], sign. A8: p. (11) beg. Atque hic: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1 unknown: A 2r, title: A 2v, introduction to the speech, in Latin: A 3r, dedication to lord Leicester by “Ioh. Sprint” dean of Bristol: A 3r-A 7v, the speech, 16 Apr. 1587: A 8r, “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.
11. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Deliuered by Zacha-|rias Vrsinvs in his Le-|ctures vpon the Cateckism auto-|rised by the noble Prince Frede-|RICK, throughout his dominions: | Wherein are debated and re-|solued the Questions of whatsoe-|uer new points of moment, which haue beene | or are contro-|uersed in Diuinitie. | Translated into English by Hen-|rie Parrie, out of the last & best | Latin Editions, together with some sup-|plie of wants out of his Discourses of Di-|uinitie, and with correction of sundrie | faults & imperfections, which ar as yet | remaining in the best corrected Latine.
Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 12o: 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.