4. James, Thomas. CATALOGVS LIBRORVM | BIBLIOTHECÆ PVB-|LICÆ QVAM VIR ORNATIS-|simus Thomas Bodleivs Eques | Auratus in Academia Oxoniensi nuper in-|stituit; continet autem Libros Alphabeti-|cè dispositos secundum quatuor | Facultates: | Cvm | QUADRVPLICI ELENCHO | Expositorum S. Scripturæ, Aristotelis, Iuris | vtriusque & Principum Medicinæ, ad vsum | Almæ Academiæ Oxoniensis. | Auctore | Thoma James | Ibidem Bibliothecario. | [woodcuts]
Impr. 18: 1605: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + “655” (really 651) + [67]: p. 11 beg. A. 11. 1. Chron., 111 P. 1. 1. Philon., p. 501 V ¶ Hug. de: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Observanda in hoc catalogo”: (3–4) Epistola dedicatoria to Henry Frederick prince of Wales: (5–8) “Præfatio ad Benevolum Lectorem,” dated “E Bibliotheca publica Oxoniæ Iunij 27. Anno. 1605.”: 1–162, catalogue of “Libri Theologici”: 163–179, “Catalogus Expositorum S. Scripturæ iuxta ordinem Voluminum vtriusque Testamenti dispositus”: 180, “Ad Lectorem”: 181–218, “Libri Medici”: 219–274, “Libri Iuris”: 275–415, “Libri Artium”: 417–425, “Interpretes librorum Aristotelis”: 427–640, “Appendix” to each of the four faculties: 641–646, “Appendix ad Expositores S Scripturæ”: 646–648, “Appendix ad Interpretes Lib. Arist.”: 648–651, “Interpretes Juris Civilis”: 651–652, “Interpretes Juris Canonici”: 652–653, “In omnia vel pleraque Scripta Hippocrat.”: 653–655, “Scriptores in Cl. Galenum”: 655, “Scriptores in Dioscoridem”: (2–67) “Index Auctorum in hoc volumine”: (68) “Nomina Hebraica quæ corruptè imprimuntur: & quia defuerunt characteres Hebraici, Latinè hîc omnia exprimimus”: (68) “Errata in Latinis nominibus.”
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii 466. and 1620. J. The catalogue includes also the MSS. then in the Library. In the dedication the “Bibliotheca Bodleiana” is stated to be not yet four years old, having been formally opened on 8 Nov. 1602. The preface gives an interesting account of the early history of the Library. In the pagination a leaf is omitted after p. 426, but “457” follows “450”: the total number of pages is no doubt 726 (signn. ¶ A-Y4 Z2, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Xxxx4 ( )1), so that Upcott (English Topography, iii. p. 1122, Lond. 1818) is wrong. Other editions of the complete catalogue of Bodleian printed books were issued at Oxford in 1620, 1674, 1738 and 1843, and one of the MSS. in 1697.
5. King, John, bp. of London. ARTICLES MINISTRED | IN THE VISITATION OF | THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL MAI-|ster Iohn King, Doctor of divinitie, Arch-|deacon of Nottingham, in the yeare of | our Lord God. 1605. | [device.]
Impr. 7a: 1605: sm. 4o: pp. [8 + ?]: signn. A4 + ?: sign. A 4r beg. Visiting of: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-?, the articles.
Very rare. The only recorded copy, in the Bodleian, contains only sign. A. For the issuer see Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 294.
6. Kingsmill, Thomas. CLASSICVM | POENITENTIALE, | Thoma Kingesmillo, auctore, | olim Socio Coll. Magdalenensis & non ita | pridem Hebraicæ Linguæ in alma Aca-|demia Oxon: professore regio. | [device.]
Impr. 26: 1605: sm. 4o: pp. [56] + 130 + [2] + 65 + [3]: p. 11 be. resipiscentiam, 111 mitto cætera, 2nd p. 11 beg. suluerunt, vos: English and (2nd part) Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–47) dedication to the king: (49–56) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–130, the treatise: (1) a title:—“[woodcut] | TRACTATVS | DE SCANDALO | EODEM AVCTORE. | [device.]” Impr. 11, 1605: 1–65, the second treatise.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 758. These two treatises on the moral state of England are printed without list of contents, index or even division into paragraphs. No one but the author and compositor can have ever read them, and the former had been insane, though according to Wood he recovered his powers.
7. Oxford, Christ Church. MVSA HOSPITALIS | ECCLESIÆ CHRISTI | OXON. | Jn adventum Fælicissimum Sereniss. Iacobi | Regis, Annæ Reginæ, & Henrici Prin-|cipis ad eandem Ecclesiam. | [device.]