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

by Falconer Madan

Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4^o: pp. [100], signn. ¶, A-L⁴ M²: sign. B 1^r beg. Virtutis qui: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1^r title: ¶ 2^r-4^v 5 special Latin poems: A 1^r-M 1^v, the poems: M 2^r “Ad Lectorem”, a final poem.

The marriage of king Charles with Henrietta Maria was on 1 May 1625 at Paris and on 14 June at Canterbury. The poems are Latin, except 1 Hebrew and 7 Greek: not one is French. There are five anagrams and two chronograms.

16. ——. OXONIENSIS | ACADEMIAE | PARENTALIA. | SACRATISSIMÆ MEMORIÆ | potentissimi Monarchæ Iacobi, Magnæ | Britanniae, Franciae & | Hiberniae Regis, Fidei Orthodoxæ | defensoris celeberrimi, &c. Dicata. | [device.]

Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4^o: pp. [96], signn. ¶⁴, ¶¶² A-K⁴ L²: sign. B 1^r beg. Sacrificûm: English (except sign. G which is Great primer) Roman. Contents:—sign. ¶ 2^r title, ¶ 3^r, poetical Latin dedication to king Charles: ¶ 3^v-L 1^v, the poems: L 2^r “Conclusio ad Lectorem”, a Latin poem.

Latin poems by members of the University on the death of king James i, which took place on 27 Mar. 1625: all in Latin except 3 Hebrew and 2 Greek: there are 5 chronograms, an anagram, and one poem printed in a peculiar shape.

17. Pemble, William. Vindiciae fidei, or a treatise of iustification by faith, wherein that point is fully cleared, and vindicated from the cauils of its aduersaries. Deliuered in certaine Lectures at Magdalen Hall in Oxford, By William Pemble ... and now published since his death for the publique benefit.

Impr. 59: 1625: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 239 + [3].

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 331. The above title and details are from notes of a copy belonging to lord Robartes, seen by me 18 Nov. 1881.

18. Prideaux, dr. John. Lectiones novem de totidem religionis capitibus ...

A private copy was seen by me in 1881.