- “Now register’d—now ticketed we move,
- Our slightest works the double label prove.”
6. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY
- . . . . . “O Veneti,
- Que fuerat vobis ars primum nota Latini,
- Est eadem nobis ipsa reperta premens.”
- . . . . . “O Veneti,
- Que fuerat vobis ars primum nota Latini,
- Est eadem nobis ipsa reperta premens.”
[231] In the following observations on the first Oxford types we are mainly indebted, in common with all students of the subject, to the careful researches and notes of the late Mr. Henry Bradshaw of Cambridge.
[232] Bagford attributes this general cessation of printing in Oxford, Cambridge, York, Tavistock, St. Albans, Canterbury and Worcester to Cardinal Wolsey’s interference while legate.
[233] S. Joannis Chrysostomi opera Græce, octo voluminibus. Etonæ, in Collegio Regali, Excudebat Joannes Norton, in Græcis &c. Regius Typographus. 1610–13. Fol.
[234] Sir Henry Savile (who is not to be confounded with his kinsman and namesake, Long Harry Savile, Camden’s friend) was formerly Greek tutor to Queen Elizabeth. In 1585 he was made Warden of Merton, and in 1596 became Provost of Eton College, where he died in 1621, ætat. 72.
[235] Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. London, 1807–12. 6 vols., 8vo, v, 111, 122.