The title is an allusion to the spurious Peplus of Aristotle, a commemoration of the heroes who fell before Troy. The editor was John Lhuyd, and the poems (almost all Latin) are all by New College men, among whom the earl of Pembroke, Sidney’s brother-in-law, had been educated. See preceding art., and Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 523.
10. Sprint, John. AD | ILLVSTRIS-|SIMOS COMI-|TES WARWICENSEM | ET LEICESTRENSEM ORA-|TIO GRATVLATORIA | BRISTOLLIÆ HABITA | APRIL. ANNO | 1587. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 5: (1587): (eight) 16o: pp. [16], sign. A8: p. (11) beg. Atque hic: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1 unknown: A 2r, title: A 2v, introduction to the speech, in Latin: A 3r, dedication to lord Leicester by “Ioh. Sprint” dean of Bristol: A 3r-A 7v, the speech, 16 Apr. 1587: A 8r, “In aduentum Illustrissimi Comitis Leicestrensis cùm primùm Cancellarius Oxoniensis Academiam accederet” (29 Aug. 1566?), a poem of 13 hexameters, the initial letters of the words forming a complimentary wish.
Extremely rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 333, where the poem &c. is reprinted.
11. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Deliuered by Zacha-|rias Vrsinvs in his Le-|ctures vpon the Cateckism auto-|rised by the noble Prince Frede-|RICK, throughout his dominions: | Wherein are debated and re-|solued the Questions of whatsoe-|uer new points of moment, which haue beene | or are contro-|uersed in Diuinitie. | Translated into English by Hen-|rie Parrie, out of the last & best | Latin Editions, together with some sup-|plie of wants out of his Discourses of Di-|uinitie, and with correction of sundrie | faults & imperfections, which ar as yet | remaining in the best corrected Latine.
Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 1047 + [9]: p. 11 beg. alone is it, 111 iecting it of, 1001 Now we haue: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl of Pembroke, signed by Parry: (9–15) “To the Christian readers,” by Parry: 1–1047, the work: (2–9), “A table ...” of contents.
Other editions were printed at Oxford in 1589, 1591, 1595, 1601. The work, which is a commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, appears to be a cento from the Tractationes Theologicae of Ursinus (vol. 1, 1587, fol.). See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 192. Parry’s Prefaces are reprinted in 1600. U.
1588.
1. Ca[se], Jo[hn]. APOLOGIA MV-|SICES TAM VO-|CALIS QVAM | INSTRUMEN-|TALIS ET | MIXTÆ. | [four mottos.]
Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) 16o: pp. [6] + 78 (“77”): p. 11 beg. am, Lydiam: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication “Henrico Vntono et Guilielmo Hattono ... Io. Ca. S. P. D.,” with preface signed “I. C.,” Oxf. 30 Nov. 1588: 1-“77” the work.