Impr. 151: 1635: (fours) la. 8o: pp. [30] + 393 + [11]: p. 11 beg. sponsum est, 301 vetus Anna: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within border and double lines: (3) dedication to the memory of James i: (5–29) “Præfatio”: 1–393, the work, in 11 Apparatuses: (1) “Errata”, a long list: (2–11) “Index”.
The author, a Cambridge man, though at this time bp. of Chichester (1628–38), signs the dedication as “R. M. humillimus Ecclesiæ Cicestrensis Minister”. This work discusses pre-Christian antiquities, as preparations (apparatus) to the Life of Christ which is the subject of the same author’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ (tom. i, 2 parts, Lond. 1636, 1640). The underlined words in the above title are printed in red, as well as “Oxoniæ,” in the imprint. A copy was presented by the author to Henry Spelman on 4 Sept. 1635.
13. *†Oxford, University. ... Encyclopædia
| { Seu ORBIS LITERA⸗ | RVM provt in florentissimâ iam et omnium planè celeberrimâ | |
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| { ACADEMIA OXONI⸗ | ENSI singulis Terminis publicè in Scholis auditoribus proponuntur |
No imprint, but Oxford (?), 1635 (?): (one) la. 4o. Contents:—p. (1) the Encyclopædia.
This is a fine sheet, engraved by “T. Cecill” on metal, 163
16 × 161
16 in. In the upper part there is a dedication of “hæc Encyclopædia et Synopsis Statutorum” to archbp. Laud. A large series of concentric circular spaces fill the centre, each divided into a left hand and right hand half:—counting from the centre (a sun), (1) days of the week, (2) hours of the day, (3) subjects, (4) explanation of the next circle, (5) List of proper audience and books for each lecture: (6) explanation of the next circle, (7) lists of fines for absent professors and absent audience: in the four corners are notes, one of which supplies another title for the sheet, namely “Cyclus Prælectorum ... ex Corpore Statutorum depromptus et delineatus ...”. Some copies (issued in 1638, see below) have a small printed label “Iovis” pasted over “Martis”, or else the plate itself altered to “Iovis”, in the note that Easter Term ends on the Tuesday before Pentecost, and a longer slip pasted at the foot containing a note about the teaching of Arabic and Medicine.
The chart is usually found folded and pasted in the 1638 edition of the abridged Statutes: but a copy in the University Archives is pasted between the two columns of the 1635 Synopsis Statutorum, which in combination with the dedication quoted above suggests that it was first issued in 1635, a natural year for it, when the interest in the new Code of Statutes was fresh. There is nothing to suggest that it was printed away from Oxford. The device in the title is a well-made representation of the University arms with the motto “Sapientiæ et felicitatis”.
Thomas Crossfield of Queen’s certainly edited the 1638 Statuta selecta, and may have issued the Synopsis (which is in his style), and possibly therefore the Encyclopædia. At any rate he took the plate of the Encyclopædia and used it in 1638. It is in his own copy of the Statuta selecta that the altered plate is found (see above); and the note about Arabic and Medicine is there in his own handwriting preceded by a ☛, just as in the printed slip.
14. ——. SYNOPSIS SEV EPITOME STATVTORVM, | Eorum præsertim, quæ Iuventuti Academ. Oxon: maximè | expedit pro Doctrinâ & Moribus habere cognita. |
Impr. 153: 1635: (one) folio: pp [2]: 2nd col. beg. Tempus ad Gradus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) the Synopsis, in two columns.