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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parrochia sancte Brigide / in vico anglice nuncupate* (the fletestrete) ad signum solis commorantem. Anno domini. M. cccc. xii. die vero. duodecima Augusti. Lond. by W. de Worde: 1512 : (eights and fours) sm. 40 : pp. [116], signn. a8 b4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G6 H418 K4. — A manual of Logic, which was reprinted at London by Pynson under the same title in an undated edition which bears a device of the printer not used after 1516 : (sixes, sm. 40: pp. [160], signn. a-m6, n8). Wynkyn de Worde printed a similar ‘ Libellus Sophistarnm ad vsum Cantibrigiensium ’ in 1524, covering almost exactly the same ground of logic, but different in arrangement and detail. I5I3- [Apr. 8, the mayor was discommoned for proceeding against a privileged person in a court other than that of the Chancellor. The plague again in Oxford. Feb. 1, I5i§, delegates appointed to reform and codify the Statutes. Easter Day, Mar. 27.] Oxford Press. *+Syrretus, Antonius. [Antonii Syrreti Formalitates de mente magistri Johannis 26 Duns] Scoti . . . cum nouis additionibus et concordantijs magistri Mauritij de portu hybernie in margine decorate et nouiter impresse . . . Uenumdantur in Vniuersitate Oxoniensi. Sub intersignio sanctissime Trinitatis ab Flenrico Jacobi bibliopole Londoniensis: pr. in London (?), publ. at Oxford by H. Jacobi, about 1513. —Only known from a fragment (a 1-2) in New college library at Oxford. Henry Jacobi came to Oxford from London in 1512 or 1513 and died in the former place towards the end of 1514. 1514. [Easter Day, Apr. 16.] 1515. [ ,, Apr. 8.] 1516. [Corpus Christi college founded. Easter Day, Mar. 23.] I5I7- [About Easter, a quarrel between the Benedictine and Cistercian monks, culminating in an attack on the Proctors at Carfax on Apr. 16. The plague in Oxford. Easter Day, Apr. 12.] Insolubilia. C Compilatuzzz ell hoc opufculum infolubilium fecun- 27 dum | vsum izzfignis fchole paruifi in alma vniuerfitate. Oxonie | pro nouellis ftudentibus in fophiftica ad eorum ingenD |orum acumina fubtili inuefligacione dirigenda | [large device of Arms of the Univer¬ sity of Oxford, supported by two angels] | C Infignia alme vniuerfi- tatis Oxonie | [Oxford, by John Scolar?, 1517?]: sm. 40: pp. [8?] sign. A4?: sign. A 3r beg. In aliqua consequencia. Contents:—sign. A ir, title, with Arms, see above : A2r~4v(?), the treatise, with running title ‘ Sophistica insolubilium ad vsum Oxoniensium ’: A 4, not seen. The above tract was discovered by mr. A. W. Pollard in the British Museum in 1908, imbedded between two imperfect logical treatises in a volume marked C. 37. c. 44, and is itself imperfect, wanting at least a last leaf. Mr. Pollard has satisfied himself that the large woodcut device is in an earlier condition than when used in the supposed first issue of the Second Oxford Press (Walter Burley, Dec. 4, 1517), and he may be right. It has three kinds of woodcut capitals, the first and third of which (one Gothic Jf x T%, one plain Lombardic § x § —) occur in the other Oxford books, but the third (§ squ.) is an F white on a stippled back¬ ground with three black ornaments within the letter, which is not found elsewhere in the Oxford Press. The ornaments, if not the type of the Second Oxford Press, are believed to be from Wynkyn de Worde’s office in London. Mr. Pollard contributed a description of this piece to the Library, N.S., vol. x, no. 38 (April, 1909), p. 212. The strongest argument for assigning the tract to Oxford is the occurrence of the large device referred to above, representing the Arms of the University supported by two angels. This has never been found elsewhere.