Volume 2

Oxford books : a bibliography of printed works relating to the university and city of Oxford or printed or published there / With appendixes, annals, and illustrations... By Falconer Madan.

  • Madan, Falconer, 1851-1935.
Date:
1895-1931
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    728, 731, 816, 840, and elsewhere. These books of academical verse are a pretty exercise of wit, and though they are rhetorical, it often happens that the writers, in their agonized search for new points and effects, mention details which escape a formal narrative. In conclusion, some of the more interesting books and details may be noted. Such are no. 27, a newly discovered Oxford book of 1517: nos. 74-6, the Spanish grammar of Antonio Corrano: no. 96, Agas’s splendid map of Elizabethan Oxford : the intricate bibliography of nos. 231, 840, 970-3, 1082-5, 1094-7, 1210-12, 3:665—7, 1685 + 1739, 1890, 1994, &c., and see p. ix : the evidence that Shakespeare was acted at Oxford (no, 239): nos. 452-3, 462-4, 471 (Christophorus Angelus): the batch of Royal Procla¬ mations printed at Oxford in 1625 : nos. 722-4, the Cambridge Testaments printed with Oxford type: no. 926, an unknown paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, in verse : no. 932, an early press keepsake: the burning of a pamphlet at Carfax, Jan. 164!: the symptoms of a wandering press at work in Feb. 164I, see nos. 1209, 1226 : the Water-poet’s effusions, see under John Taylor in the Index: no. 1468, the spurious Mercurius Aulicus no. 40, see also p. 493 : no. 1608, the Cambridge Disquisitions : no. 1626, Jeremy Taylor’s Psalter : no. 1640, a very rare sermon by Fuller: the Great Fire of Oct. 6, 1644: Howe’s Sermon printed through¬ out in red (no. 1751): no. 1779, Wharton’s unfortunate prediction : Swadlin’s curious editions of the Soldier’s Catechism, nos. 1787-8 : the literature of the Siege of Oxford, pp. 418-27 : an account of a Country Wake at Witney, no. 1863 : the royalist squibs on the Parliamentary Visitors, see p. 463 ad fin.: no. 2043 (.Mercurius Aidicus) and others. Cessit armis toga, for no great original work marks the decade from 1641 to 1650. In view of the destruction of the records of the Oxford Parlia¬ ment, it is worth while to draw attention to a very rare volume entitled ‘ Docquets of Letters Patent and other Instruments passed under the Great Seal of King Charles I at Oxford in 1642-6, Edited by W. H. Black. Printed by Command’, 1836 or 1837. The completest copy known, in the Public Record Office, has pp. [4] + lxii+ 432 4-Ixx. There are copies also in the Clerk of the Crown’s Office in the House of Lords, in the Bodleian, and no doubt a few elsewhere: one is in my own possession. The book is of considerable value for Writs, Com-