1639.
Bacon, sir Francis. Of the advancement and proficience of learning: see 1640 B.
1. Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de. A | COLLECTION | OF SOME MODERN | EPISTLES | OF MONSIEVR | DE BALZAC. | CAREFVLLY | TRANSLATED OuT | OF FRENCH. | [line] | Being the Fourth and last Volume. | [line, motto, woodcuts.]
Impr. 184: 1639: (eights) 12o: pp. [48] + 249 + [9]: p. 11 beg. Let. III, 201 there is no: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) engraved title, see below: (3) title, within double lines: (5–11) “To the Reader”, signed “F. B.”, the printer F. Bowman: (13–15) “An advertisement of Mons. the King”: (17–47) letters, a poem &c., see below: 1–249, the letters: (2–5) “A table of the letters”.
The first three parts of Balzac’s Letters were printed at London in 1634 (part 1, translated by William Tyrwhitt) and 1638 (parts 2 and 3, translated by sir Richard Baker). The present volume is a venture by the printer, who has prefixed some letters, papers, and a Latin poem all connected with the quarrel between Balzac and the Jesuit Franciscus Garassus, in which Louis xiii intervened as a conciliator. There is an engraved title by W. Marshall, in which kings and theologians do honour to Balzac, the title being “A new collection of Epistles of Mons: de Balzac, being the fourth and last volume. Newly translated”, with impr. 192. The range of Balzac’s letters is from 1631 to 1637.
2. Bird, John. GROuNDS OF | GRAMMER | PENNED AND | PVBLISHED. | [line] | By | iohn Bird Schoolemaster | in the Citty of Glocester. | [line, Greek motto, woodcuts.]
Impr. 180: 1639: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 184: p. 11 beg. being the, 101 Adjectivall: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–5) dedication to archbp. Laud: (6–8) “To the Reader”: 1–184, the work.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 411; but nothing seems to be known of the author at present. The book is a Latin grammar in English, for the use of which latter language the author excuses himself. The sheets of this work, omitting the prefatory matter and with a different style of title and imprint, were reissued at Oxford in 1641. The author divides grammar into Rudiment (grammar proper, divided into Elementary and Accidentary) and Regiment (syntax).
3. [Cartwright, William]. THE | ROYALL | SLAVE. | A | Tragi/Comedy. | Presented to the King and Queene | by the Students of Christ-Church | in Oxford. August 30. 1636. | Presented since to both their Ma/|jesties at Hampton/Court by the | Kings Servants. | [two lines.]
Impr. 189: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [68], signn. A-H4 I2: sign. C1r beg. The grand contrivance: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A1r, title: A2r, “The Prologue to the King and Queene”: A2v-3r, “The Prologue to the Vniversity”: A3v, “The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court”: A4r, “The Persons of the Play”: B1r-H4v, the play: I1r-2r, three epilogues corresponding to the prologues.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 69, and 1640 C. Cartwright’s poems and plays were published together in 1651, the author having died in 1643. The scene of this play is laid at Sardis. An account of the performance at Christ Church, at which the scenic arrangements seem to have been very elaborate, will be found in Wood’s Annals under the year 1636.
4. C[aussin], N[icolas]. The unfortunate politique: see 1638 C.
5. Dugres, Gabriel. DIALOGI | GALLICO-ANGLICO-LATINI. | PER | GABRIELEM DVGRES | LINGuAM GALLICAM IN | JLLVSTRISSIMA ET | famosissima, Oxoniensi | ACADEMIA Edocentem. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 186: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 195 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Commençons, 101 P. Il fera: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within a line: (5–7) French dedication to Charles prince of Wales: 1–195, the 22 dialogues in French, English (central in the page) and Latin.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 184. Dugres or Du Gres had already issued a French grammar at Cambridge in 1636, and new editions of his Dialogues, with rules of pronunciation and tables of verbs, were published at Oxford in 1652 and 1660.
6. Foxle, George. THE | GROANES | OF THE | Spirit, | OR | THE TRIALL | of the Truth of | Prayer. | [motto, line, motto, line.]
Impr. 187 or 188: 1639: (twelves) 16o: pp. [16] + 228 + [6]: p. 11 beg. mired, but, 101 the sight: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within border of woodcuts: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory “to the noble and much honoured Company of Hierusalem’s Artillery”, signed “George Foxle”: (10–14) “To the Reader”, also signed: (15) “The contents ...”: 1–228, the treatise.
A (George?) Foxley is mentioned in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iv. 137, as preaching in London in Jan. 1648
9. Copies of this treatise differ in the imprint, showing that it was published both at Leicester and Bristol. Each page is within lines, doubled at the top and outer side.
7. Fromondus, Libertus. Liberti Fromondi | S. TH. L. | Collegii Falconis in Academia | Lovaniensi Philosophiæ Profes-|soris Primarii | METEOROLOGICORVM | LIBRI SEX. | [device.]
Impr. 190: 1639: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 505 + [23]: p. 11 beg. nubem è Zona, 401 Multa generosa: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A”: (3) title: (5–10) dedication to Maximilian de Rassenghem, Lovanii, 1 Jan. 1627: (11–15) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–505, the work, in 6 books: (2–8) “Index capitum et articulorum” in the order of the book: (10–22) “Index rerum memorabilium”, alphabetical.
This is a reprint of the 1627 or 1631 Antwerp edition, being itself the third. The scope of the work may be gathered from the definition of “Meteora” as being phenomena produced by vapour (rain, &c.), or by exhalation (fiery, as lightning and falling stars: or non-fiery, as winds), or by both (clouds). Fromondus lived from 1587 to 1654, chiefly at Louvain.
8. Gardyner, dr. Richard. A | SERMON | CONCERNING | THE | EPIPHANY, | PREACHED AT THE | Cathedrall Church of Christ | in Oxford. | By Richard Gardyner, D.D. | and Canon of the same | Church. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 193: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. What right: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2), not seen: p. (3) title, within a border of woodcuts: (5–8) dedication to bp. John Bancroft: 1–31, the sermon, on Matth. ii. 2.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 921. The dedication mentions that the bishop had built the old palace at Cuddesdon, reformed the altars throughout his diocese, and suitably inscribed the Cathedral communion plate. Sign. A42 is paged 28 by error.
9. Greaves, Thomas (Gravius). DE LINGVÆ | ARABICÆ | VTILITATE | ET PRÆSTANTIA | Oratio Oxonii habita | Iul. 19. 1637. | A | Thoma Greaves Coll. Corp. | Christi Socio. | Cum | Arabicam Lecturam à Reverendissimo | Patre ac Domino GVLIELMO | Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi & Academiæ | Cancellario Oxonij institutam | loco absentis Professoris auspicaretur. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 151: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 21 + [3]: p. 11 beg. brarint. Innumera: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3) “Lectori ...”: 1–21, the speech.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 1061. The speech mentions Laud’s benefactions to the Bodleian. The absent professor was dr. Edward Pococke. Some copies have imprint 176.
10. Grotius, Hugo. De veritate religionis Christianæ.
Both in the 3rd and 4th part of Richard Davis’s auction sale catalogue (3rd part (1688), p. 12, no. 550: 4th part (1692), p. 18, no. 323) an Oxford edition of 1639 is mentioned; as well as in Ersch and Gruber’s Encyclopædia: but the edition itself is not in the greater libraries and ordinary bibliographies. The first edition was in Dutch in 1722, the Latin editions before 1639 were all published at Leyden in 1624, 1627, 1629, 1633 and 1637. There are Oxford editions of 1660 and 1662, as well as later.
11. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟ´ΚΟΣΜΟΣ | A | LITTLE DE/|SCRIPTION OF | THE GREAT WORLD. | [line] | By Peter Heylyn. | [line, motto, device.]
Imp. 119: 1639: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [20] + 808 + [4]: p. 11 beg. 1. First then, 701 dals, or Vindelici: Pica Roman. Contents:—[as 1631 H, with a few minute differences of spelling or use of capitals, and a slight change of reference (only) to the last five pages.]
For the author and book see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 557: see also 1621 H. Some copies of this work have “1939” on the titlepage. There should be a folded leaf after p. 228 as in former editions.
12. Hommius, Festus. LXX. | dispvtatio/|nes theologicæ; | [&c., precisely as 1630 H, with “tertia” for “secunda”, and the j in adjectionibus rightly italic.]
Impr. 72 a: 1639: [&c. exactly as 1630 H.]
This is a verbatim reprint of the 1630 edition.
13. Hungerford, sir Anthony. THE | ADVISE OF | A SONNE PRO/|FESSING THE RELI/|GION ESTABLISHED | in the present Church of Eng-|land to his deare Mother a | Roman Catholike. | VVHEREVNTO IS ADDED | THE MEMORIAL OF A FATHER | to his deare children, containing an | acknowledgement of God his great mercy, in | bringing him to the Profession of the true | Religion, at this present established | in the Church of England. | [line] | BY | Anth. Hvngerford of Blackbourton | in Com. Oxon. KNIGHT. | [line.]
Impr. 182: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 62: p. 11 beg. answer, that he: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border of woodcuts: 1–38, the Advice: 39–40, a preface to the following piece, dated “From my house at Blackbourton this 7th of Aprill 1627”: 41–62, the Memorial.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 411, where Wood says that the first part was written in about 1607, and that the writer died in June 1627: that Laud refused to license it for printing in 1635, because it was so strongly worded against Roman Catholicism, and that after this failure the son, sir Edward Hungerford, “got it to be printed at Oxon”, with the Memorial.
14. Jewell, bp. John. APOLOGIA | ECCLESIÆ | ANGLICANÆ. | [line] | Auctore Joanne JuELLO, | olim Episcopo Sarisburiensi. | [line] | Cum Versione Græca J. S. Bacc. in Art. | Coll. Mag. quondam Socii. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 153: 1639: (eights) 16o: pp. [12] + 331 + [1]: p. 11 beg. τῳ ἐξαιτεῖσθαι, 301 Θεῖος λόγος: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) Epistola P. Martyris, to Jewel: (5–11) the translator’s dedication to dr. William Langton, president of Magdalen, signed “Joh. Smith”: (1) a poor Greek epigram on this edition, signed “H. H.”: 2–331, the work, Latin on the verso of each leaf, Greek on the recto.
See 1614 J: the first English and Latin editions were in 1562. It is odd that in the Catalogus ... librorum Richardi Davis ... pars tertia (1688) on p. 13 the date of this book is twice misprinted 1637.
15. Kempis, Thomas a. THE | IMITATION | OF CHRIST, | Divided into four Books. | Written in Latin by | THOMAS à Kempis, | And the Translations of it | Corrected & amended | by W. P. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 156 b: 1639: (twelves) 16o: pp. [60] + 381 + [15]: p. 11 beg 26. In their life, 301 not to be discussed: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–8) Epistle dedicatory to Walter Curle, bp. of Winchester, signed “William Page”: (9–60) “To the Christian reader” signed “W. P.”: 1–381, the Imitation, in 4 books: (2–11) “A Table of the chapters...”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 655. This is the first Oxford edition of the Imitation and the only edition of dr. Page’s revision. The reviser, who was the bp. of Winchester’s chaplain, has removed such passages as would offend a Protestant. The preface is largely an exhortation to unity among the churches.
16. [Mayne, Jasper]. THE | CITYE MATCH. | A | COMOEDYE· | PRESENTED TO THE | KING and QVEENE | AT WHITE-HALL. | ACTED SINCE | AT BLACK/FRIERS BY HIS | Maiesties Servants. | [motto, then 2 lines.]
Impr. 180: 1639: (twos) la. 8o: pp. [6] + 64 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Scena II: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3) “To the reader”: (4–5) two prologues: (6) “The Persons of the Play” &c.: 1–64, the play: (1–2) two epilogues.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 972. There are subsequent editions of the play in 1658 (Oxford) and 1659 (Oxford). The preface is depreciatory of the work, stating that it was at first written “out of obedience,” and that it was only published in self-defence to avoid a threatened unauthorized issue in London.
17. Prayer, book of Common. LIBER | PSALMORUM | ET PRECVM | in usum Ecclesiæ | Cath. Christi | Oxon. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 151: 1639: (twelves) 16o: pp. 295 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Cesset quæso, 201 Ac tradidit: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—1, title, within double lines: 3–283, the Psalter: 285–295, special prayers, as in 1615 P.
See 1615 P. It is noticeable that the University no longer prints the book of Common Prayer as a whole, but only the Psalter as found in that book, separately.
18. Prideaux, John. TABVLÆ | AD | GRAMMATICA | Græca Introductoriæ. | IN QVIBVS | Succinctè compingitur, brevissima, sed | tamen expedita, singularum partium orationis | declinabilium, Variandi ratio. | ACCESSIT | Vestibuli vice, ad eandem linguam παραίνεσις in | gratiam tyronum, quibus ut convenit explica-|tiora evolvere, ita necesse est hæc ipsa | ad unguem tenere. | [motto] | EDITIO TERTIA. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 191: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [68], signn. A-F4, G2, H-I4: sign. B1r beg. profero clarâ, F2r 15. Asserit A: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A1r, title: A2r-A2v, dedication to dr. Tho. Holland, dated “Exon. Colleg. Ian. 1. 1607”, and signed “Io. Prideaux”: A3r-B3v, preface as in the 1607 edition: B4r-E1r, the work, “Conclusio”, &c., as before: E2r, a title:—“TYROCINIVM | AD SYLLOGISMVM | Legitimum contexendum, & | captiosum dissuendum, ex-|peditissimum. | IN QVO | Ad formam expensa Syllogisticam perstrin-|guntur punctìm Sophismata, nec minus solidè, | quàm vulgò fit, ratione materiæ; | Excerptis ex optimis Authoribus exemplis Græco-latinis, | ut majori cum voluptate & fructu, ex utriusq; lin-|guæ candidatis & legantur, & | intelligantur. | [motto, then woodcut]” with impr. 157: E3r-E4r, the dedication, as in the 1629 edition: E4r, two Latin poems: F1r-G2v, the treatise: H1r, a title:—“HEPTADES | LOGICAE· | SIVE | MONITA AD AMPLIORES | Tractatus Introductoria. | [motto, then device]”, with impr. 191 a: H2r-I4v, the treatise.
See 1607 P, 1629 P, and Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 267. The Heptades (seven divisions of Logic) seem to be here printed for the first time.
19. Smith, Samuel. ADITVS | AD | LOGICAM· | IN VSVM EORVM | qui primò Academi-|AM Salutant. | [line] | Autore Samuele Smith, | Artium Magistro. | [line] | Editio quinta. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 109 a: 1639: (twelves) 16o: pp. [14] + 204 + [2] + 2 folded leaves: p. 11 beg. Proximum est, 111 non autem: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (5) title: (7–11) “De nupera Londinensi editione ad Lectorem Προτρεπτικός.”: 1–204, the work in 3 books: (1) “Lectoribus ...”: before pp. 33 and 43 should be folded tables of Substantia and Qualitas.
See 1617 S. The undated preface complains of a pirated London edition, which may be that of 1621.
20. Tozer, rev. Henry. CHRISTIAN | WISDOME, | OR | THE EXCELLENCY | FAME AND RIGHT | MEANES OF | Trve | WISDOME. | As it was briefly delivered in | a Sermon in St Maries | Church in Oxford, | Novemb: 11. 1638. | [line] | By H. Tozer B.D. Fellow | of Exeter Colledge. | [line.]
Impr. 152: 1639: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 107 + [1]: p. 11 beg. The se-|cond Ge | : Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title, within double lines: 3–8, Epistle dedicatory to Robert (Kerr) earl of Ancrum: 1–107, the sermon, on 1 Kings x. 24.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 274.
21. Wescombe, Martin. FABuLÆ | PONTIFICIÆ | EVANGELICÆ | Veritatis radiis | dissipatæ. | [line] | Autore | Martino Wescombe | Artium Magistro in | Academia celeberrima | Oxoniensi. | [line, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 157: 1639: (eights) 16o: pp. [34] + 85 + [1]: p. 11 beg. it, nec alicui: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within double lines: (5–23) dedication to archbp. Laud: (25–33) “Ad candidum lectorem præfatio”: 1–85, the work, in five parts.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 675: the author, according to the dedication, was a Franciscan at Toulouse, converted to Protestantism by Stephanus de Cursol, settled at Exeter and patronized by bp. Hall. In 1637
8 he became a member of Exeter College, and in 1639 incorporated at Cambridge: after which he is lost sight of, except that he is said to have been reconverted to Roman Catholicism, and to have gone abroad. The five “fabulæ” are “De universali Episcopo,” “de infallibilitate papæ,” “de Purgatorio,” “de Transubstantiatione eucharistica,” and “de invocatione Sanctorum.” Wescombe is a Somerset and Devon name.