1617.
1. Angelus, Christophorus. [woodcut.] | Πόνησις Χριστοφόρου τοῦ Ἀγγέλου, Ἕλληνος τοῦ πολλῶν πλη-|γῶν, καὶ Μαστίγων γευσαμένου ἀδίκως παρὰ τῶν | Τουρκῶν διὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν Πίστιν. | [device.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. σφόδρα· καὶ ὅτι: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, dedication to English people in Greek: A 2r-B 2r, the work: B 2v, a woodcut, see below.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 633, and the next art. Two very rude wood engravings illustrate the text, one on sign. A 4r depicting the tortures inflicted on Angelus by the Turks, the other (sig. B 4v) possibly an emblematic figure representing England.
2. ——. [woodcut] | CHRISTOPHER ANGELL,—a Grecian, who tasted of many | stripes and torments inflicted by the | Turkes for the faith which he | had in Christ Iesus. | * * *
* * | [line] | [woodcut] | [line.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A B4: sign. B 1r beg. much in debt: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r dedication to England: A 2r-B 3r, the work: B 4r, a woodcut, see below.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 633, 1618 A, and preceding art., of which this is a translation, in good English. The same two engravings occur as in the Greek text, on sign. A 4r and B 4r.
3. Duck, Arthur. [woodcut.] | VITA | HENRICI | CHICHELE | ARCHIEPISCOPI | CANTVARIENSIS | SVB REGIBVS HENRIC: V. ET VI. | descripta ab Arthvro Duck: | LL. D. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 108 + [4]: p. 11 beg. licentur etiam: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–180, the Life: (1) account of the sources of the Life: (3) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 258. The Life was reprinted in [Bates’s] Vitæ Selectorum ... virorum, Lond. 1681, p. 1: and an English translation was published at London in 1699. This Life of the founder of All Souls contains some solid historical matter, with a few documents. Some copies want the Errata.
4. Hales, John. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT St MA-|RIES IN OXFORD VPON | TVESDAY IN EASTER | VVEEKE, 1617. | CONCERNING THE ABVSES | of obscure and difficult places of holy | Scripture, and remedies a-|gainst them. | By Iohn Hales, | FELLOW OF ETON COLLEDGE, | and Regius Professour of the Greeke | tongue in the Vniversitie | of Oxford. | [line: then device: then line.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 41 + [1]: p. 11 beg. monly they: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–41, the sermon, on 2 Pet. iii. 16.
For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 409. This sermon was reprinted in Hale’s Golden Remains (Lond. 1659 &c.), with others. The text, outer margin and headlines of every page are within bounding lines.
5. Hutchins, Robert. Stationers’ Register, ed. Arber, iii. 654 “7o Augusti 1619. John Barnes. Entred for his copie by order of a Court A short Catechisme made by Robert Hutchins which was the copie of Joseph Barnes his ffathers ... vjd,” assigned to John Wright the same day. This Catechism cannot be later than 1617, in which year Joseph Barnes ceased printing, nor before 1605 when John Wright began to publish: but I find no other notice of the book or author.
6. Jackson, Thomas. NAZARETH AND BETHLEHEM, | OR, | ISRAEL’S | PORTION IN THE SONNE | OF IESSE. | AND, | MANKINDS COMFORT | FROM THE WEAKER SEXE. | TVVO SERMONS PREACHED IN | St Maryes Church in Oxford. | BY | Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Divinitie, and | Fellow of Corpus Christi College | in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 38: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 75 + [1]: p. 11 beg. returne to: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to James Montague bp. of Winchester, dated “from my study in Corpus Christi College ... Septemb. 6. 1617”: 1–37, the first sermon, on Jer. xxxi. 21–22: 38–75, the second, on Gal. iv. 4–5.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 668. The text, outer margins and headlines are within bounding lines.
7. M[orrice?], T[homas?] DIGESTA | Scholastica, | IN GRATIAM PVE-|RORVM EDITA: | IN DVAS DIVISA PAR-|tes: quarum prior Prosaica, | posterior Metrica | continet. | Per T. M. | [device.]
Impr. 37: 1617: (eights) 12o: pp. [4] + 52 + 127 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. impetu and Ipse Perillæo, 111 Vt plus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) “ad lectorem”: (4) the contents: 1–52, the first part: 1–127, the second part.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 272. The book consists of adages and extracts suitable for school use.
8. Oxford, University. IACOBI ARA | [engraving] | CEV, IN IACOBI MAG-|NÆ BRITANNIÆ FRANCIÆ | ET HIBERNIÆ REGIS SERENIS-|SIMI, &C: AVSPICATISSIMVM | REDITVM E SCOTIA IN | ANGLIAM, ACADEMIÆ | OXONIENSIS GRA-|TVLATORIA. |
Impr. 37: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [80], signn. A-K4: sign. B 1r beg. Vis restituta: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1v “Iacobi patriarchæ cum Iacobo rege ... comparatio,” a poem: A 2r-K 4r, the poems: K 4v, “Conclusio,” a poem.
Congratulatory poems by members of the University of Oxford, on the occasion of the return of James i from a short visit to Scotland. All are in Latin except two Greek and two French: one is acrostic and one in the shape of an altar. On the title is a rough wood engraving of an altar with fire, bearing the words DEO REDVCI:.
9. Smith, Samuel. ADITVS | AD | LOGICAM. | In vsum eorum qui pri-|mò Academiam | Salutant. | [line] | Autore Samvele Smith | Artium Magistro. | [line] | Editio Tertia. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 13c: 1617: (twelves) 16o: [2] + 204 + [2] + 2 unpaged tables, see below: p. 11 beg. Tertio Ge-, 111 ctivam habet: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–204, the work, in 3 books, with two sm. 4o leaves unpaged inserted at pp. 32–3 and 42–3, printed on one side only with logical divisions of Substantia and Qualitas respectively: (1) “Lectoribus ...”, a deprecation of criticism.
For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 283. This is the first known Oxford edition: see 1613 S., 1614 S., 1618 S., 1627 S., 1633 S., 1639 S., 1684. There is also a London ed. of 1621.
10. Terry, John. THE | REASONA-|BLENESSE OF WISE AND | holy truth: and the absurditie | of foolish and wicked | Errour. | [two texts, then device.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 38 + [2]: p. 11 beg. able so: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Arthur Lake, bp. of Bath and Wells: 1–38, the sermon, on John xvii. 17.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 410.
11. W., R., of Hart Hall, Oxford. “Merry Jests concerning Popes, Monkes and ffryers translated out of Ffrench by R. W. Bachelour of Arts of H[arts]. H[all]. in Oxon.”
So in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Register, as a book of Joseph Barnes’s, entered at Stationers’ Hall 26 Feb. 1620
1 by John Barnes. It must have been printed between 1585 and 1617 inclusive, probably after 1610.