The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

Only known from two leaves (signn. c²-c³) in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge. A grammatical work, of which other editions were printed in London by Wynkin de Worde (sine anno) and Pynson (1516), and elsewhere.

2. Phalaris. [Sign. a 2^r:—] Francisci Aretini Oratoris pre⸗|clarissimi in eloquentissimas Phala|ridis tyranni epistolas per ipsum | e greco in latinum versas. Prohe⸗|mium foeliciter incipit [Sign. m 6^r:—] Hoc oposculum in alma vniuersi⸗|tate Oxonie. A Natali christiano | Ducentesima & nonagesima septima. | Olimpiade foeliciter impressum est.

Oxford, 1485, printed by Theodoric Rood and Thomas Hunte: (eights) squ. 12^o: pp. [176], signn. a-d⁸, e⁶, f⁸, g⁶, h⁸, i⁶, k-l⁸, m⁶: sign. b 1^r beg. Udio vos. Contents:—sign. a 1^v “Carmeliani Brixiensis Poete ad lectorem Carmen,” 12 elegiac lines: a 2^r-m 6^r, the work: on m 6^v after the colophon “Hoc Teodericus rood quem collonia misit | Sanguine germanus nobile pressit opus | Atque sibi socius thomas fuit anglicus hunte. | Dij dent vt venetos exuperare queant | Quam ienson venetos decuit vir gallicus artem | Ingenio didicit terra britanna suo. | Celatos veneti nobis transmittere libros | Cedite nos alijs vendimus o veneti | Que fuerat vobis ars primum no ta latini | Est eadem nobis ipsa reperta patres. | Quamuis semotos toto canit orbe britannos | Uirgilius. placet his lingua latina tamen.

A Latin translation of the spurious Letters of Phalaris.

1486.

[†Mirk, John]. [Sign. ( ) 2^r:—] Incipit liber qui | vocatur festialis [Sign. z 3^r:—] Here endith the boke | that is callid festiuall. | the yere of oure lord M | cccc . lxxxvi . the day aftir | seint Edward the kyng.

Imprint as above, n. pl., but Oxford 1486 (probably 19 Mar. 1486
7): la. 8^o: pp. [348], signn. ( )⁸, a-b⁸, c⁶, d⁸, d⸴⁸, e⁶, f⁸, g⁴, h⁸, i⁶, k-l⁸, m⁶, n-o⁸, p⁶, q⁸, r⁶, s⁸, t-v⁶, x⁸, y⁶, z⁴: sign. b 1^r beg. diuerse skylles. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1^r, woodcut of Crucifixion: ( ) 1^v-z 3^r, the work.

English sermons on the holy days and a few of the Sundays of the year: written or collected by John Mirk, canon of Lilleshall. Other early English printed editions exist, beginning with one by Caxton in about 1483. Variations are found in the setting up of signn. h and i. The first two leaves are not at present known to exist.

The Early Sixteenth Century Press[^[5]].

1517.