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

by Falconer Madan

Imprint as above, Oxford, [probably 1518]: 4^o[?]: broadside. Contents:—on 1st page, the Praenostica.

Only known from the lower half of the sheet preserved in the Cambridge University Library, where the upper half is also believed to be.

4. Lux. ¶ Compendium questionum de luce et lumine [followed by a small woodcut and the four quaestiones]. [Sign. B 4^v:—] ¶ Cum priuilegio dignissi⸗|mi Cancellarij vniuer⸗|sitatis Oxonie. [Then a large woodcut: then] ¶ Finit compendium questiuncularum de luce & de | lumine nouiter recognitum. Impressumque in celiberi⸗|ma vniuersitate Oxoniensi per me Ioannem Sco⸗|lar in viculo diui Ioannis baptiste moram trahentem | Anno domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo . Mensis vero | Iunij die quinto.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1518: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. vt intentio. Contents:—A 1^r, title: A 1^v-B 4^r, the work: B 4^v, the colophon.

5. Whittington, Robert. ¶ De heteroclitis nominibus. | ¶ Editio Roberti Whittintoni lichfeldien|sis Grammatice magistri: et protouatis | anglie in florentissima Oxoniensi achade|mia Laureati ⁄ de heteroclitis nominibus | et gradibus comparationis. [Then woodcut: then a “tetrastichon” and a “distichon.”] [Sign. B 4^v:—] [Roberti] whittintoni lichfeldiensis de heteroclitis no|[minibus & de] gradibus comparationis Oxonie impressa per | [me Ioannem] Scolar in viculo diui Ioannis baptiste mo|[ram tra]hentem Anno domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo | [M]ensis vero Iunij . die vicesimoseptimo.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1518: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A⁶, B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Hic tapes. Contents:—A 1^r, title &c. as above: A 2^r-B 4^v, the work (on B 4^v also occur a woodcut of the arms of the University and the colophon).

Only known from an imperfect copy in the Bodleian rescued from the binding of a book.

1519.

Compotus. ¶ Compotus manualis | ad vsum Oxoniensium. | [device]. [sign. B 4^v:—] ¶ Impressum est presens opusculum in ce⸗|leberrima vniuersitate Oxoniensi per | me Carolum Kyrfoth. In vico | diui Joannis baptiste moram | trahentem Anno domini . M . D . xix. Mensis | vero Februarij . die V. |

Imprint as above, Oxford, 1519: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. ¶ Februarius. Contents:—A 1^r, title, and woodcut: A 1^v-B 4^r, the Compotus: B 4^v, University arms and colophon.