Copinger. = Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum. By W. A. Copinger. 1895-1902.

Hain. = Repertorium bibliographicum in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD typis expressi ordine alphabetico vel simpliciter enumerantur vel adcuratius recensentur. Opera Ludovici Hain. 1826-1838.

Proctor. = An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD. By Robert Proctor. 1898.

INCUNABULA.

1480 COLOGNE. Conrad Winters de Homborch. Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda Aurea. Quarto. B.M. p. 248 (IB. 4043).
1481 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger Nicolaus de Lyra. Postillae super Biblia cum additionibus Pauli Burgensis. Folio. Hain *10369. B.M. p. 419 (IC 898).
[1482, after July end] WESTMINTSER. Wm. Caxton. Higden, Ranulphus. Polychronicon. Folio. Blades 46. De Ricci no. 19, copy 38. Imperfect at beginning and end.
[1483] [ST. ALBANS. Schoolmaster printer.] Andreae, Antonius. Scriptum super logica. Quarto. Imperfect copies at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Wadham College, Oxford.
[About 1483-85.] LONDON. Wilhelmus de Machlinia. Albertus Magnus. Liber aggregationis seu De virtutibus herbarum. Quarto. Proctor 9770.
[1485?] LOUVAIN. Johannes de Westphalia. [Rolewinck, Werner]. De Regimine Rusticorum. Quarto. Campbell *1480. Proctor 9274.
1487 VENICE. Georgius de Arrivabenis. Biblia Latina. Quarto. Hain *3099. Proctor 4912.
1490 STRASSBURG. [Printer of Jordanus de Quedlinburg]. Modus legendi abbreuiaturas in utroque iure, etc. Folio. Hain 11485. B.M. p. 140 (IB. 2030).
1491 MAINZ. Jacobus Meydenbach. Hortus Sanitatis. Folio. Hain *8944. B.M. p. 44 (IB. 343). Imperfect, wanting seven leaves at the end.
1492 PARIS. Antoine Caillaut. Guillermus Parisiensis. Super septem sacramentis. Quarto. ?Hain 8313. Not described.
1493 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger. Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum. Folio. Hain *14508. B.M. p. 437 (1C. 7451).
1494 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger. Duranti, Guilelmus. Rationale diuinorum officiorum. Quarto. Hain *6497. B.M. p. 439 (IB. 7478).
1494 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger. Herolt, Joannes. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Folio. Hain *8504. B.M. p. 440 (IB. 7485).
1494 STRASSBURG. [Martin Flach]. Marchesinus, Joannes. Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Quarto. Hain *10573. B.M. p. 153 (IA. 2184).
1495 PARIS. Jean Petit. Postilles des dimenches et des festes de lanee. Quarto. Not described.
[1495?] VENICE. Bernardus Benalius. Tertullianus. Apologeticus aduersus Gentes. Folio. Hain 15443. Proctor 4899.
[About 1495] [FRANCE?] Burley, Walter. De vita et moribus philosophorum. Quarto. Copinger 1387. Copy in University Library, Cambridge.
1496 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger. Gregory IX. Decretales cum summariis. Folio. Hain *8034. B.M. p. 442 (IB. 7519).
1496 VENICE. Baptista de Tortis. Gregory IX. Decretales cum summariis. Folio. Hain *8035. Proctor 4656.
1497 BOLOGNA. Benedictus Hectoris Faelli. Pico della Mirandola (Giov. Fran.). De morte Christi, etc. Quarto. Hain * 13002. Proctor 6634.
1497 LONDON. Richard Pynson. Expositio Hymnorum secundum usum Sarum. Expositio Sequentiarum secundum usum Sarum. Quarto. Other copies known are at the Bodleian Library and St. John’s College, Oxford.
1497 NUREMBERG. Anton Koberger. Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et additionibus Pauli Burgensis. Folio. A complete copy has four parts. This contains only the first and about half of the second. Wrongly lettered 1481. Hain *3171. B.M. p. 443 (IB. 7535).
1497 VENICE. Simon Bevilaqua. Lactantius. De diuinis institutionibus, etc. Folio. Hain *9818. Proctor 5401.
1497 VENICE. Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus. Guainerius, Antonius. Practica. Folio. Hain * 8099. Proctor 5076.
1498 etc. BASEL. Johann Froben & Johann Petri. Biblia Latina cum glosa ordinaria et expositione Nicolai de Lyra. Folio. Hain *3172. B.M. p. 791 (IB. 37895). Imperfect, wanting parts 3, 5 and 6.
1499 VENICE. Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus. Bartholomaeus Montagnana. Consilia medica. Folio. Proctor 5622.
1499 STRASSBURG. Johannes Grüninger. Sibylla, Bartholomaeus. Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum. Quarto. Hain *14720. B.M. p. 113 (IA. 1486).
1500 VENICE. Johann Emerich for L. A. Giunta. Joannes Franciscus Brixianus. Quattuor viuendi regulae. Quarto. Hain *13827. Proctor 5504.

In addition to the foregoing early printed books the Library includes examples from the English presses of Wynkyn de Worde, Julian Notary, Peter Treveris, Thomas Berthelet, Richard Grafton, John Day, Richard Tottell, Christopher Barker, Robert Barker, John Norton (celebrated for his magnificent edition of St. Chrysostom’s Works in 8 vols., printed at Eton, 1610-1612—a copy of which is in the Library—which T. B. Reed described as “one of the most splendid examples of Greek printing in this country”), Thomas Roycroft, etc. Continental typography is also represented by specimens from many presses, including those of Jean du Pré, Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Josse Bade of Asch), the Estiennes, the Elzevirs, Christopher Plantin, John Koberger, H. Petrus, Peter Perna, etc.

Coming to early Norwich printed books there are unfortunately no examples of the rare works from the first Norwich press set up about 1566 by Anthony de Solemne or Solempne, whose first extant printed work is dated 1570, and whose last is dated 1579. The Library, however, possesses an example from the press established by Francis Burges, who in 1701 styled himself “the first printer in Norwich.” It is a copy of Erasmus Warren’s “A Rule for Shewing Mercy,” printed by F. Burges, and “sold by the widow Oliver, Bookseller in Norwich, 1706.” When Burges died in 1706 his business was carried on by his widow, and the 1706 catalogue of the City Library (see page 47) “Printed by Eliz. Burges, near the Red-Well,” is a specimen from her establishment. The press of Freeman Collins is represented by Dean Prideaux’s “The Original and Right of Tithes,” printed in 1710. The second catalogue of the City Library, printed in 1732, (see page 48) was printed by “William Chase, in the Cockey Lane,” who founded the Norwich Mercury.

A perusal of the 1883 catalogue will shew that the Library

had indeed “no inconsiderable Collection of Divinity Book, for that time especially,” as was said by Brett in his Catalogue of 1706, and repeated by Mackerell. There are sixteen printed Bibles and five New Testaments in the Library, including the second and fourth of the great Polyglots, the Plantin edition (1572) and Brian Walton’s (1655-57), and the following English versions: Matthew’s Bible (1549), The Great Bible (1553), and the first edition of the Geneva version (1560). It is curious that there should be no copy of any edition of the Bishops’ Bible.

Most of the principal Fathers are represented by some of their writings. Of the ante-Nicene Fathers there are writings by Justin Martyr, Irenæus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen and Cyprian, and of the post-Nicene Fathers there are writings by Eusebius of Cæsarea, Hilary of Poitiers, Athanasius, Basil, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory the Great, and John of Damascus.