Something can be added to the account. The two original books in dispute are in the John Rylands (Spencer) Library at Manchester, and the locus classicus for their history is naturally in Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1814), ii. 271, iii. 411: where will be found a reproduction (in type) of the two titles and colophons. Of the Pliny Dibdin states that one George Smith passed it on to Van Damme, from whom Askew bought it for fifteen guineas. With respect to the Lystrius, it appears that the “Mr. Dent” who purchased it at the Askew sale was an agent or pseudonym of Mr. Alchorne. The volume bears a manuscript note pretending to be from “i. Korsellis” at Haarlem in 1471, stating that the book came to him from his brother Frederick.
About 1513.
P. [11]. Add:—
Syrretus, Antonius. [Antonii Syrreti Formalitates de mente magistri Johannis Duns?] | Scoti ordinis fratrum minorum doctoris sub⸗|tilissimi cum nouis additionibus et con⸗|cordantijs magistri Mauritij de por⸗|tu hybernie in margine decora⸗|te et nouiter impresse: | [two Latin verses, then a woodcut of the Trinity with “Henricus Iacobi” and printer’s mark at foot, then two more Latin verses] | ¶Uenumdantur in vniuersitate Oxoniensi. Sub | intersignio sanctissime Trinitatis ab Hen⸗|rico Jacobi bibliopole Londoniensis. |
This interesting title is found on a fragment of two leaves discovered by Mr. R. G. C. Procter in New College Library at Oxford, in Aug. 1891, and now marked “Auct. V. 16,” fol. 3. The verso of the title is occupied with a woodcut of the arms of Henry VIII, with supporters, two angels with scroll, &c. The second leaf is marked A 2, and contains a dedication and certain definitions, all part of the Additiones Mauritii. The book was no doubt printed in London, but sold in Oxford by Henricus Jacobi, who died in the latter city towards the end of 1514, intestate, see p. [273]. From an interesting account of Jacobi in Bibliographica, pt. I (1894), by Mr. E. G. Duff, it appears that Jacobi, after publishing in London from 1505 to 1512, came to Oxford in 1512 or 1513 (see pp. [95], 112 of the account).
This entry and that of 1506 should strictly be in a list by themselves, being neither “lost” nor “fictitious.”
1585.
P. [14]. Bilson, Thomas. Add at end:—
A curious account of an abortive effort on the part of Edmund Bollifant and three partners to produce a reprint of this book, will be found in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Registers II (1875), p. 793.
P. [17]. Parsons, Robert, (2nd entry, no. 6). Add at end:—