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

by Falconer Madan

Very rare. This book is questions and answers on almost every subject concerned with man’s body and mind. Not a line of it was printed at Oxford, the woodcuts and type differ from Oxford ones, and even the device, which is like the smaller Oxford Arms of the University, is from a different block. The British Museum catalogue supplies the author’s name.

7. Persius. AVLVS PERSIVS FLACCVS | HIS | SATIRES TRANSLA-|TED INTO ENGLISH, | BY |Barten Holyday M^r of Arts, | and Student of Christ-Church | in Oxford. | [motto] | The second Impression. | [device.]

Impr. 2: 1616: (eights) 12^o: pp. [72], signn. A-D⁸ E⁴: sign. B 4^r beg. Dissolu’d vnto: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r-A 5^r, “To the Reader”: A 5^v-B 1^r, Complimentary letter from John Ley, and verses by John Wall and others: B 1^v-E 2^r, the translation, with a few notes: E 2^v-E 3^r, “An apostrophe of the translatour to his Authour Persius,” &c.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 523. The first edition seems to be unrecorded. There are London editions of 1617, 1635, and 1650: and Oxf. 1673. Some edition of this book was entered at Stationers’ Hall by John Barnes on 14 Nov. 1616, and another by William Arundel, by John Barnes’s consent on 29 Mar. 1617.

8. Robinson, Hugh. “Preces. Written for the use of the children of Winchester school in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quædam, in Lat. and Engl. Antiquæ Historiæ Synopsis. All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct.”

So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 395.

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. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A⁴ B²: sign. B 1^r beg. σφόδρα· καὶ ὅτι: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r, dedication to English people in Greek: A 2^r-B 2^r, the work: B 2^v, 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 4^r depicting the tortures inflicted on Angelus by the Turks, the other (sig. B 4^v) possibly an emblematic figure representing England.