Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 84 + [20]: p. 11 beg. Ad sanam: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) Latin dedication to the memory of sir Thomas Bodley, by Merton college: (4) Latin poem by the editor: 1–84, the poems, chiefly Latin: (1–18) “Oratio funebris habita in Collegio Mertonensi à Johanne Halesio ... anno 1613 Martij 29o; quo die Clarissimo Equiti D. Thomæ Bodleio funus ducebatur.”
This book consists of about 80 poems (four in Greek, the rest in Latin) in memory of sir Thomas Bodley by members of Merton college, of which society Bodley was a fellow. The editor’s name does not appear. Bodley died in London on Jan. 28. 1612/3, but both the dedication of this volume and p. 117 of the Justa Funebria (see below) state that it was on Jan. 29: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 126.
20. Oxford, University. [woodcut] | EPITHALAMIA. | SIVE | LVSVS PALA-|tini in nvptias celsissi-|mi principis domini fride-|rici comitis palatini ad | RHENVM,&C.ET SERENISSI-|MÆ ELISABETHÆ IACOBI | POTENTISSIMI BRI-|TANNIÆ REGIS | FILIÆ PRIMO-|GENITÆ | [device.]
Impr. 31: 1613: sm. 4o: pp. [128], signn. ( )2 A-P4 Q2: sign. B 1r beg. Curc Atalanta, M 1r Impar nulla: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r title: ( ) 2r “Oxonia Heydelbergæ”, a short poem: A 1r-Q 2v, the verses.
Poems by Oxford men on the marriage of Frederick v, elector Palatine, with the princess Elizabeth of England on 14 Feb. 1612
3. All are Latin except five Greek, two Italian and one Hebrew (unpointed, Pica and Brevier).
21. —— University. IVSTA FVNEBRIA | PTOLEMÆI | OXONIENSIS THO-|MÆ BODLEII EQVITIS | AVRATI CELEBRATA | in Academiâ Oxoniensi | Mensis Martij 29.| 1613. | [device.]
Impr. 31: 1613: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 134 + [14]: p. 11 beg. Sed calcanda, 111 Non famam. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) short Latin poems as by the University: 1–134, the poems: (1) a titlepage:—“ORATIO FVNEBRIS | HABITA IN | SCHOLA THEOLOGICA AB | ORATORE PVBLICO, IN OBI-|TV CLARISSIMI EQVITIS | THOMÆ BODLEII. | * * * *
* * * | [device]”, impr. 11: (3) “Ad lectorem” a preface by the orator (Isaac Wake): (5–12) the oration.
About 270 poems, chiefly Latin, but two Hebrew (unpointed, Pica), four Greek, two Italian, one English: in memory of sir Thomas Bodley, see preceding art. The oration by Wake (see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 540) was reprinted in W. Bates’s Vitæ selectorum virorum (1681), p. 416. The British Museum printed Catalogue, and the Catalogue of English Books in the Museum up to 1640, attribute this speech to Richard Corbet, by error.
22. Petrucci, Lodovico. [woodcuts] | RACCOLTA, | D’ ALCVNE RIME, DEL CAVA-|liere Lodovico Petrvcci, Nobile Toscano, in | più luoghi, e tempi composte, & à diversi Pren-|cipi dedicate; con la selua delle sue | Persecutioni. | FARRAGO POEMATVM, EQVITIS LVDO-|VICI PETRVCCI, Nobilis Tuscani, diversis lo-|cis et temporibus conscriptorum, & ad diversos | Principes dedicatorum; vnà cum syluâ, sua-|rum Persecutionum. | * * * * | * * * | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4o: pp. [130], sign. A-P4, Q 1–3, one leaf, Q 4: sign. H 1r beg. Quod signis: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, A 2v, Italian dedication to James i signed “L’infelice Lodovico Petrucci Cavaliere”: A 2r, A 3r, the same in Latin: A 3v-Q 3v, the poems in Italian and Latin: (one leaf)v “I principali errori commessi nell’ Italiano di questo libro”, a long list, beginning with the titlepage (“Cavalliere”), followed by some Errata in the Latin: the references oddly are to pages.