1. Oxford, Corpus Christi College. Perfect. Owned by John Lacy, and Herbert Randolph (1724). Marked Χ P. [3]. 12, then Δ. 1. 14.
2. Oxford, Wadham College.
3. John Rylands Library, Manchester. Perfect. Marked in the Spencer Library S. 5. 3, and 15835 (G. 237).
Fragments:—Bodleian (parts of i 4, i 6, now Auct. R. supra 9): Corpus Christi College, Oxford (parts of l 2 and l 7): St. John’s College Library, Oxford (one leaf): Trin. Coll. Camb. (one leaf of sign. d): Westminster Abbey Library (four leaves of sign. k).
14. Alexander (1485?, see p. [4]).
There are editions of the Textus Alexandri by Pynson in 1505, 1513, 1516 and by Wynkin de Worde, 1503.
Fragments known:—St. John’s College, Cambridge (c 2 and c 3 [?]): Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (two leaves, n 3 and one unsigned; probably part of the Alexander).
15. Festiall (1486
7, see p. [4]).
Printed in “1486,” “on the day aftir Seint Edward the kyng”: which would seem to be March 19, 1486
7. This book is distinguished by the occurrence of many woodcut engravings, and by the use of a woodcut capital G (52 times). This latter is the only woodcut letter used in the early Oxford Press (see Bradshaw in the Communications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, iii. 136). In the same paper (p. [138]) Bradshaw suggests that the eleven large cuts were perhaps intended for an edition of the Golden Legend, and that the five smaller ones belong to a lost Oxford Primer on Horae. The text is nearer to that of Caxton’s second issue (1491) than of his first (1483). The two sets of woodcuts are as follows:—
| Larger kind (general size, about 4½ × 4½–5½ in.). | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ( ) 1r. | Woodcut of the Crucifixion, laid sideways. |
| 2. | ( ) iv. | Woodcut of St. Christopher bearing Christ, beneath a canopy. |
| 3. | h 5v. | Bishop under canopy, with two trees (facsimile in Dibdin’s Ædes Althorpianæ). |
| 4. | i 5v. | Martyrdom of St. Thomas. |
| 5. | k 7r. | Stoning of St. Stephen (facsimile in Dibdin). |
| 6. | l 2r. | St. John the Evangelist (?) with cup and palm-branch, between two figures. |
| 7. | l 6r. | Murder of the Innocents. |
| 8. | l 8v. | Murder of Thomas a Becket. |
| 9. | m 5v. | The Circumcision. |
| 10. | n 6r. | The Conversion of St. Paul. |
| 11. | o 7v. | The Annunciation. |
| Smaller kind (general size, about 2½ × 1½ in.). | ||
| 12. | c 4v. | Crucifixion. |
| d 8v. | Space for woodcut. | |
| e 2v. | Do. ? | |
| 13. | e 3r. | Pentecost. |
| e 5r. | Do., the same woodcut. | |
| 14. | f 2v. | The Trinity. |
| 15. | h 1r. | St. Andrew with his cross, with a book and trees. |
| 16. | h 1r. | St. Andrew with his cross. |