A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle)
History
A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921
Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle)
Cambridge University Press -- Bibliography; Cambridge University Press -- History
A study of the list of books printed between 1588 and 1625 will
show that there was by this time a slow, but steady, output of
Cambridge books. Prominent among them are the works of that
voluminous theologian, William Perkins, "the Learned, pious, and
painfull preacher of God's word in St Andrewes in Cambridge" whose
virtues are celebrated by Fuller in the second book of _The Holy
State_ (1642):
His Sermons were not so plain but that the piously learned did
admire them, nor so learned but that the plain did understand
them.... He would pronounce the word _Damne_ with such an
emphasis as left a doleful Echo in his auditours ears a good
while after. And when Catechist of Christ-Colledge, in expounding
the Commandments, applied them so home, able almost to make his
hearers hearts fall down, and hairs to stand upright.
Perkins's works, dealing with such subjects as _A Direction
for the government of the Tongue_, _Salve for a Sicke man_, _A
Reformed Catholike_, and _The Damned art of witchcraft_, and other
theological matters were collected into three folio volumes.
Thomas's _Latin Dictionary_ was regularly reprinted, reaching its
tenth edition in 1610.
In 1603 there appeared _Threnothriambeuticon. Academiae
Cantabrigiensis ob damnum lucrosum, & infoelicitatem foelicissimam,
luctuosus triumphus_, a symposium of classical expressions of
grief and joy on the death of Elizabeth and the accession of
James I. Amongst the contributors were Phineas Fletcher, Matthew
Wren (afterwards Bishop of Ely) and Dr Stephen Perse. Similar
anthologies of loyalty were published in celebration of the return
of the Prince of Wales from Spain in 1623 and of his accession in
1625, and the practice was continued throughout several reigns; a
poem in Latin hexameters (_In homines nefarios_) was also provoked
by the Gunpowder Plot. Two works of James I were printed at the
Press: _A Princes Looking Glasse_, translated by W. Willymot
(1603), and _A Remonstrance for the Right of Kings_ (1616 and 1619).
In 1610 there appeared the first work of Giles Fletcher: _Christs
Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after death_,
with a dedicatory epistle to Nevile, the Master of Trinity:
My opinion of this Island hath always been, that it is the very
face, and beauty of all Europe, in which both true Religion is
faithfully professed without superstition, and (if on earth) true
Learning sweetly flourishes without ostentation: and what are the
two eyes of this Land, but the two Universities ... and truly I
should forget myself, if I should not call Cambridge the right eye.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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