1596.

1. Case, John. REFLEXVS | SPECVLI MORALIS | QVI COMMENTARII VICE | esse poterit in Magna Moralia Aristo-|telis: auctore Johanne Caso, | in Medicina Doctore, Collegij | Divi Iohannis Præcursoris | Oxon. olim socio. | [five mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 5a: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 271 + [1]: p. 11 beg. one ab, 111 Quæst. 3: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistola dedicatoria to Richardus Phetiplacius, Oxf. 20 Sept. 1596: (7–11) address “Ad Lectorem, Benevolum” 26 Nov. 1596: (13–15) 5 Latin poems on the book: 1–198, the work: 199–200, “Peroratio operis, ad lectorem” 20 Sept. 1596: 201–206, “Quæstionum ... ordo ...”: 207–208, “Index Capitum”: 209–268, “A B Cedarium moralis philosophiæ Johanni Phetipacio Richardi Phetiplacii filiolo: omnibusque Tyronibus virtutum studiosis, scriptum & commendatum,” by question and answer: 269–271, “Peroratio ad adolescentem studiosum lectorem,” 30 Nov. (1596).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687. The first address shows that for a time the printer refused to produce the work, which is related to the Speculum of 1585, for fear that it might be reprinted at once elsewhere, and he suffer loss as in the case of the Sphæra Civitatis of 1588. See 1586. C. A presentation copy has red lines round the page, on three sides double. This book is strictly the second part of the next art., Case’s Speculum.

2. Case, John. SPECVLVM | QVÆSTIONVM | MORALIVM, IN VNI-|VERSAM ARISTOTELIS | Philosophi summi Ethicen, cui ad-|ditur brevis commentarius in magna | Moralia Aristotelis, qui ab Autho-|re Reflexus speculi Moralis | nominatur, | IOHANNE CASO OXONIENSI | Doctore in Medicina olim Collegii præ-|cursoris socio Authore, | NVNC DENVO RECOGNITVM, | & à mendis plerisque repurgatum. | CVM INDICE VERBORVM ET RERVM | præcipuè memorabilium locuplete. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 20: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [32] + folded sheet + 533 + [27]: p. 11 beg. empli causa, 111 tur: quod: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) epistola nuncupatoria to the earl of Leicester, dated 7 Mar. “1585”: (11–15), address “ad studiosos iuvenes utriusque academiæ,” with a short poem: (17–31) complimentary Latin verses: a “Tabula virtutum et vitiorum omnium,” folio sheet printed on one side only: 1–531, the work: 532–533, “Peroratio ad lect orem”: (1–26) Index.

A reprint of 1585. C. The above title covers the preceding article, Case’s Reflexus Speculi, but for convenience they are separately treated.

3. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | His | Honorable lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes lamentation. | * *
* | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [106], signn. A4, one leaf, B-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents: sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth widow of sir F. Drake, signed by the author of the book “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 3r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 4r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “D. W.”: 5th leafr “In Dracum redivivum; Carmen,” beg. Quis vostrûm, signed “Thomas Michelborne”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 607. The book was reprinted in the same year with small differences in the text chiefly of spelling, but with considerable changes in the prefatory matter: see below. It was also reprinted in 1819 at the Lee Priory Press, and edited by dr. Grosart in 1881* *
*. The poem is in 7-line stanzas, rhyming ABABBCC. Woodcut ornaments occur at the top and bottom of almost every page, and the book has the appearance of an édition de luxe.

4. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | his | Honorable lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes | lamentation. | * *
* | [motto.] | Newly Printed with additions. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [112], signn. A-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth Drake, signed “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 2v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3r “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.”, poem, beg. Many greate, signed “Thomas Mychelborne”: A 4r “To the Author,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “Diag. Vvh.,” i. e. Degory Whear: A 4v “Ad Dracum,” English poem, beg. Weepe not, signed “Ty. Co.”: A 5r-A 6v, address “To the Reader” signed “C. F.” Broadgates (Oxford), 17 Nov. 1596: A 7r-A 8v, quotations ending “Hæc ferè sunt quæ de Draco nostro apud exoticos poetas legimus”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.

See preceding article.

Very rare. This issue is almost identical with the first, but the whole text appears to be newly set up, with minute differences.

5. Morlet, Pierre. IANITRIX | siue | INSTITVTIO AD PER-|fectam linguæ Gallicæ | cognitionem ac-|quirendam. | Authore Petro Morleto | Gallo. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 11: 1596: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 92 + [4] : p. 11 beg. Antequam verò: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–7) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Robert Beal, dated Broadgates Hall, “15 Mar. 1596”: (9–13) complimentary poems in Latin and Greek: (14) “Errata”: 1–92 the treatise.

Very rare: a French grammar, in Latin, by Pierre Morlet (?). The dedication states that the author was tutor to sir Robert Beal, having been introduced by David Chytræus.

6. Perrot, sir James. “A Discovery of Discontented Minds wherein their several sorts & purposes are described especially such as are gone beyond ye Seas. Dedicated to ye Earl of Essex by James Perrot & printed at Oxford in 4to by Joseph Barnes Printer to the University—1596.”

Very rare. The above is from Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5904 (Bagford’s Collections), foll. 20 & 171. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 606, Herbert’s Ames, p. 1406, both notices derived from Oldys’s Catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian Library (Harleian Miscellany, vol. x. (1813), p. 358, where ‘Quarto, in thirty-four pages’ is added).

7. Pinner, Charles. [Sermon by Charles Pinner at Marlborough, on 1 Tim. iv. 16.]

(Impr. ?: 1596?): (eights) 16o: pp. 53 +[3]: p. 11 beg. through knowledge: Pica English. Contents:—p. 1 title: 3–4, Epistle dedicatory to “master Iohn Bailife” of Marlborough, dated from Wotton Basset, 20 Oct. 1596: 5–53, the sermon.

Very rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 667. In the Bodleian copy, the only one known, the title is lost, so that the date is uncertain. But the book was certainly printed at Oxford, the woodcut on p. 5 being decisive.

8. Rainolds, John. JOHANNIS RAINOLDI, | DE ROMANÆ ECCLE-|SIÆ IDOLOLATRIA, IN | CVLTV SANCTORVM, RE-|liquiarum, imaginum, aquæ, salis, olei, | alarumque rerum consecratarum, & | sacramenti Eucharistiæ, | OPERIS INCHOATI | Libri dvo. | IN QVIBUS CUM ALIA MVLTA | VARIORVM PAPISMI PATRONO-|rum errata patefiunt: tûm inprimis Bellarmini, | Gregoriique de Valentia, calumniæ in Calvi-|num ac ceteros Protestantes, argutiæque | pro Papistico idolorum cultu | discutiuntur & ven-|tilantur. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 18: 1596: eights, sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 646: p. 11 beg. cisse tantùm, 111 am secundum, 501 bus Gentium: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “¶ 1” alone: (3) title: (5–12) dedicatory epistle to the earl of Essex, in Latin, Queen’s coll. Oxford, 7 July 1596: (13–15) “Index tractatuum, librorum, et capitum”: 1–609, the work in two books, preceded by an “Epistola ad Anglicorum Seminarioram alumnos Romæ & Rhemis” and preface, and followed by an “Admonitio ad lectorem”: 609–627, “Index locorum Sacræ Scripturæ”: 628–646, “Index rerum præcipuarum.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15. Hebrew Pica type occurs on p. 497 and elsewhere, both pointed and without points: and unpointed Long Primer on pp. 169, 451, 603, &c.

9. Unton, sir Henry. FVNEBRIA | NOBILISSIMI AC | PRÆSTANTISSIMI | EQVITIS, | D. Henrici Vntoni, | AD GALLOS BIS LEGATI | Regij, ibique nuper fato functi, | CHARISSIMÆ MEMORIÆ, | ac desiderio, à Musis Oxoniensi⸗|bus Apparata. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1596: sm. 4o: pp. [68], signn. ¶, A-G4, H2: sign. B 1r beg. Virtutis môvere: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1r title: ¶ 1v “Liber ad Lectorem,” Latin poem: ¶ 2r-¶ 2v, address “Benevolo lectori,” signed “Robertus Wright,” Trinity college, Oxford, 13 June 1596: ¶ 3r-H 2v, poems in memory of Unton, the only two not Latin being on sign. A 1r in Greek and Hebrew: see below.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 648. The first (unpointed) Hebrew type used at Oxford appears in the poem alluded to above, a Pica fount. Some (probably early) copies omit the preface, the ‘Liber ad Lectorem’ occurring on sign. ¶ 2r, the page preceding and following being blank.