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.]