A rare tract. See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 479. The incident related belongs to the year 1614, when the King of Persia put Ketaban to death for refusing to forsake Christianity. Some Jesuits are said to have dressed up a carcase as Ketaban’s, to have carried it to her son, and to have enjoyed much honour by the miracles which it wrought. Ultimately the real body arrived and the Jesuits were banished. The translator was Thomas Crosfield of Queen’s College, Oxford: and the Letter was published in Greek and Latin (at London?) in 1632.
21. Hakewill, George. THE | VANITIE | OF | The Eye. | First begun for the Com-|fort of a Gentlewoman berea-|ved of her sight, and since | upon occasion inlarged | and published for the | Common good. | BY | George Hakevvill Ma-|ster of Arts, and Fellow of Exe-|ter Coll. in Oxford. | [line] | The second Edition. | [line, then motto.] |
Impr. 142: 1633: (twelves) 16o: pp. [6] + 173 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ripping up, 111 as much of: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double bounding lines: (3–6) “The Contents of the severall Chapters ...”: 1–173, the work in 31 chapters.
See 1608 H. This is really the 4th ed., not the 2nd.
22. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟ´ΚΟΣΜΟΣ | (&c., precisely as 1631 H, except “sixth” for “fifth”.)
Impr. 140: 1633: (eights) sm. 4o; pp. [20] + 808 (the last misprinted 807) + [4]: p. 11 beg. 1 First then there, 701 dales, or Vindelici: Pica Roman. Contents:—exactly as 1631 H, except “Forraine Coynes”, and the necessary change of reference (only) to the last five pages.
See 1621 H: this edition is apparently an almost lineatim reprint of the 5th edition.
23. Holyday, Barten. PHILOSOPHIÆ | POLITO-|BARBARÆ | SPECIMEN, | In Quo | De Anima & ejus | Habitibus Intel-|LECTuALIBuS, | Quæstiones aliquot, | LIBRIS DVOBVS, | Illustrantur à | [line] | Bartenio Holyday | [line.] |
Impr. 69: 1633: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 189 + [3]: p. 11 beg. piniones diversas: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title, within arched border: (3–8) “Præfatio”: (9–11) “Series rerum ...”, a list of contents: 1–189, two books and an oration: (1) “Errata”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 522. These are exercises and speeches composed by Holyday in about 1617–21, when prælector of Rhetoric and Philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, and concern the De Anima, Ethics and Rhetoric of Aristotle. What is considered to be the barbarous element in the Philosophy, is not clear.