Clement of Rome. References to a supposed edition of Clemens Romanus in 1637, a reprint of the edition of 1633, are due to a confusion: the 1633 edition alone exists.
9. Comenius, Johannes Amos (Komensky). CONATVVM | COMENIANORVM | PRAELVDIA | EX BIBLIOTHECA S. H. | [device.]
Impr. 72: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 52 + [6]: p. 11 beg. Tertiò, portento: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Ad lectorem”, signed “Samuel Hartlibius”: (5) title:—“PORTA SAPIENTIAE | RESERATA: | Sive | PANSOPHIÆ CHRISTIANÆ | SEMINARIVM. | Hoc est, | Nova, compendiosa, & solida omnes Sci-|entias & Artes, & quicquid manifesti vel occulti | est, quod ingenio humano penetrare, solertiæ imitari, | linguae eloqui datur, breviùs, veriùs, meliùs, quàm | hactenus, addiscendi Methodus. | [line] | Auctore | Reverendo Clarissimóque Viro | Domino Iohanne Amoso Comenio. | [line, 2 mottos, woodcut.]”, with impr. 72d: (6) a motto: 1–52, the work: (1–6) “Præcipua Capita Didacticæ Magnæ, à Domino Comenio elaboratæ ...”
This is a kind of prospectus of the encyclopædic work on education which Comenius was at the time contemplating, and although issued by Hartlib without the permission of the author, partly in order to gather the opinions of scholars on the scheme, it was not displeasing to Comenius, especially since some of his critics suggested a Collegium Pansophicum to work out the details. This we learn from an appendix by Comenius to the reprint of this Oxford edition in vol. i. of his Opera didactica omnia (Amst. 1657), vol i. col. 403, cf. 454.
10. Cowper, Thomas. Cowper 1637. | AN | ALMANACK | for the yeare of our | Lord 1637. | [line] | Being the first after leap-yeare. | [line] | Together with some astrologicall rules | for the prediction of weather for each | day in the yeare: with the principall High-wayes in England and | Wales. | [line] | Referred to the famous Universitie and | Citie of Oxford; but may indiffe-|rently serve for any other place within | this Kingdome. | [line] | By Thomas Cowper. | [line, motto, line.]
Impr. 68d: 12o: Pica Roman: title within a border of lines and woodcuts.
Very rare. Only known from a titlepage in Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5937, no. 140. See note under Booker above. The underlined words in the title above are printed in red ink, as well as “Oxford,” and “the famous Universitie. 1637” in the imprint, and some words in the “Vulgar Notes” on the back of the title.
11. Deliciae deliciarum. DELITIÆ | DELITIARVM | SIVE | EPIGRAMMATVM | optimis quibusq; hujus & no-|vissimi seculi poetis in amplissimâ | illâ Bibliothecâ | Bodleiana, | Et penè omninò alibi extantibus | ἀνθολογία, in unam corollam connexa | [line] | Operâ Ab. Wright Art. Bac. | & S. Ioan. Bapt. Coll. Socii. | [line, then motto.]
Impr. 166: 1637: 12o: [16] + 247 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Tale tamen, 201 De Virgilio: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–8) dedication to dr. Will. Haywood, the editor’s tutor: (9–11) “Lectori”: (13–15) “Catalogus Auctorum”: 1–247, the epigrams: 247, Errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iv. 276. Wright took his M.A. degree on April 22, 1637. Unfortunately there is no indication of the source of each epigram, and almost all the authors are continental poets.