The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

Cambridge—University Library (two fragments).

7. Compotus (1519: see p. [7]).

Beneath the title is a woodcut, 5¾ × 4⅜ in., representing a master at his desk, with a birch in his left hand and a book in his right: above him and on each side are other volumes, and before him five students on a bench with their books. Two windows are in the background. On A 2^r is a diagram of the open hand (5 × 3⅝ in.), for purposes of computation: and different diagrams of the hand or part of it are on A 2^v, A 4^r, A 4^v.

Copy known.

Cambridge—University Library.

Details of the Early Sixteenth Century Press.

No.	Book.	Date.	Printer named.	Place named.
1	Burley on Aristotle	1517 Dec. 4		Academia Oxonie
2	Dedicus	1518 May 15	J. Scolar[[15]]	Celeberrima Universitas Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
3	De Luce	1518 June 5	J. Scolar[[15]]	Celeberrima Universitas Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
4	Burley’s Principia	1518 June 7	J. Scolar[[15]]	Celeberrima Universitas Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)
5	Whittington	1518 June 27	J. Scolar	Oxonia
6	Laet (1518?)			Celeberrima Oxoniensis Academia
7	Compotus	“1519” Feb. 5	C. Kyrfoth	Celeberrima Universitas Oxoniensis (St. John’s St.)

No.	Book.	Pages.	Lines in page.	Large Capitals.	Head Line.	Woodcuts.
1	Burley on Aristotle	20	55	+	⨀	Oxf. & Royal Arms
2	Dedicus	152 (foliated)	56	+	+	Oxf. & Royal Arms
3	De Luce	16	55–6	+	+	Oxf. & Magi
4	Burley’s Principia	16	57	⨀	+	Oxf. & Royal Arms & Scholar
5	Whittington	20	59	⨀	+	Oxf. & Scholar
6	Laet (1518?)	[broadside: no complete copy known]
7	Compotus	16	31–2	⨀	+	Oxf. & Scholars & Hands

APPENDIX C.
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PERSONS AND PROCEEDINGS CONNECTED WITH BOOK-PRODUCTION AT OXFORD, A.D. 1180–1640.

Three districts in Oxford are associated with the early production of books.