See 1633 B. This is part 1 of the Instauratio Magna, and is an expansion of the two books of the Advancement of Learning first printed in 1605, which were enlarged in Latin to nine books, and published in 1623 (and 1635) by W. Rawley: here they are translated by G. Wats. Some copies have 1639 in the colophon. At pp. 266–69 are some woodcut facsimiles of cipher-alphabets, &c. The engraved titlepage by W. Marshall (9⅝ × 5¾ in.) bears the title on a sheet suspended between two obelisks representing Oxford and Cambridge: above it are two globes and “INSTAVR.MAG.P.I.”: below, a ship in full sail and the imprint: the whole is fully described in the British Museum Catalogue of Prints and Drawings, Div. 1, vol. 1 (1870), p. 116 (no. 153). Three out of the four British Museum copies have a portrait of Bacon, but the translator’s own copy in the Bodleian has not. The collation, being elaborate, is here appended:—( )1, ¶4, ¶¶2, ¶¶¶1, A2B-C4: aa-gg4 hh2: †4, ††2, †1: A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Qqq4 Rrr2: pp. 351–2 are repeated in the numeration.
2. Brerewood, Edward. TRACTATVS | ETHICI: | SIVE | COMMENTARII | in aliqvot Ari/|STOTELIS LIBROS | ad NichomachuM, | De Moribus: | A Celeberrimo Philosopho | Edvardo Brerewood | Art. Mag. è Colleg. Ænea-|nasensi, olim conscripti: | Iam primùm ex authoris ipsius Autogra-|pho, summâ fide, nec minori curâ casti-|gati, & publici juris facti: | Per T. S. S. S. Theolog. Bacchalaureum, & | Colleg. Ænea-nasens. apud Oxon Socium. | [line.]
Impr. 200: 1640: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 245 + [3]: p. 11 beg. De modo Doctrinæ, 201 tasia aliquando: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title within double lines: (3–11) Epistola dedicatoria to James lord Strange, dated “Oxonii è Musæo meo in Collegio Ænea-nasensi, Nono Cal. Januarii 1639.”, and signed “Thomas Sixesmith”: (13–16) “Index tractatuum, capitum, et quæstionum ...”: 1–245, the four treatises, on the first four books of the Ethics.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 141. The original MS. (finished 27 Oct. 1586) is now part of MS. (Queen’s coll. Oxford no. 218). The method of this commentary or rather analysis is scholastic and formal. The editor says that he rescued the original MS. from a “rurale musæum,” when it was “pulvere situque squalidum, & tantum non sepultum.” The author died in 1613. It is curious that in Moss’s Manual of classical bibliography (Lond., 1825, vol. i, p. 157) this book is called “Westerman, Commentaria in Ethica Aristotelis. Oxon. 4to. 1640,” with a reference to Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 141. The explanation is that Westerman heads the column in Wood’s work, because the account of William Westerman follows Brerewood on that column: but the ascription deceived even so acute a bibliographer as the late professor Chandler in his List of editions of the Nicomachean Ethics (Oxf. 1878).
3. Buridanus, Johannes. IOHANNIS | BVRIDANI | PHILOSOPHI | TRECENTIS RETRO | annis celeberrimi | QUÆSTIONES IN OCTO | LIBROS POLITICORVM | ARISTOTELIS. | uNA | CVM INDICE QUÆSTIONVM | Dubiorúm-que eisdem annexorum | locupletissimo. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 69: 1640: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 431 + [16]: p. 11 beg. quia unus homo, 401 crimini vitæ: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: two epigrams, one by, and one to, Guillermus Baterel, the original editor: 1–431, the work: (1–15) index.
Baterel’s annotated edition of Buridanus on the Politics was printed at least twice in the sixteenth century (1506 and 1526).
4. Carpenter, Nathaniel. ACHITOPHEL, | OR | The Picture of a Wicked | Polititian. | Divided into three Parts. | A TREATISE | Presented heretofore in three | Sermons to the Vniversity | of Oxford and | now Published. | By Nath. Carpenter | B. D. & Fellow of Excet. Coll. | in Oxford. | [line.]
Impr. 193 a: 1640: (twelves) 24o: pp. [8] + 177 + [3]: p. 11 beg. common equity, 101 next place: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–8) dedication to archbp. Ussher: 1–60, 61–125, 127–177, the three sermons, on 2 Sam. xvii. 23.
For an account of the earlier editions, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 422, and 1628 C. The present edition closely resembles the London ones of 1633 and 1638. Probably the “N. H.” who edited the next article below, edited this also, Carpenter having died in 1628. The work is evidently intended to be read with a view to the political circumstances of the time, under the disguise of dealing with “a sacred tragedy” from Old Testament history.