Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1792-1796
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    718/768 (page 624)
    Mentz) which claims feniority (as ’tis faid) even of Harlem itfelf. This prefs at Oxford was ten years before any in Europe (except thofe places that claim the invention) and becaufe it was found inconvenient, that it was the foie place in England, being too far from London and the fea,^the King fet up a prefs at St. Albans, and another at Weftminfter for the printing of Divinity and Phyfic books (Law was excepted) and by degrees were Preffes fet up at other places, as at Abendon near Oxon in the Abbey there, [and] at Worcefler. From hence therefore it appears, that the faid Fred. Corfellis was the fird: Printer in Oxford, yet which was the firft book he printed I find not. One I have feen printed there 1468, but no name of the Printer fet at the beginning or ending thereof; howbeit in all probability was printed by Corfellis. At the end of the book (which is in quarto) is this Note— * Explicit expoficio fandti Jeronimi (i) in fimbolo apoftolorum ad papam laure’ '’JT- cium Iinprefia Oxonie Et finita An no domini. m. cccc. Ixviii. xvii. die decembris.’ printed in a character very legible, better than feveraLthat have been fince ufed. (2) He printed and finifhed alfo (as ’tis probable) ‘ iEgid. Roma- nus do original! Peccato,’ began at Oxford at the Nativity of our Lord 1479, and finifhed there 14 Mar. following; and the fame year alfo was printed ‘ Leonardus Arretinus in libros Ethicorum.’ The next Printer after Corfellis, feems to have been Theodoric Rood of Colen, who printed alfo divers books in Oxford, among which was ‘ Alex- ander de Alexandria in 3 libros Ariftotelis,’ at the end of which is this Note—‘ Explicit fentenciofa atque ftudio digna expofitio venerabilis Alex- andri fuper terciu’ libru’ de anima. Imprefium per me Theodoricu’ rood de Colonia in alma univ’fitate Oxon. Anno incarnac’onis dm’ce m. cccc. Lxxxi. xi die menfis Odtobris.’ A copy of this book I have feen in Brafenofe Col- lege Library printed on parchment, but with a far worfe character than (1) Ruffini; is enlm hujus Expofitionis author. (2) Steph. Batman Dr. of D. and Chapl. to Hen. Cary Lord Hunfdon, upon Bartholomaeus ‘ de Proprietatibus Rerum’ (the book was wrote in Lat. an. 1366, and tranflated into Engliih 1397) in the laft fol. 426 tells us that Bartholo- maeus was firft printed in Englifti an. 1471 ; and then he adds—at which time Printing begun firft in England the 37 of Hen. VI—But he is ma- nifeftly miftaken, for this foregoing book was printed an. 1468 at Oxford, at leaft two years be- fore. [See the Origin of Printing; viz. Dr. Middleton’s Diss. &c. with Notes by Bowyer and Nichols, 8°. 2**. edit. Lond. 1776.—Typo- graph. Antiq^ by Ames and Herbert, 4'“. Lond. 1785, vol i, p. 71; iii, p. I 386, &c.] that