Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
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Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library -- Catalogs
Scogin’s Jests: Full of witty Mirth, and pleasant Shifts; done by him in
France and other places. Being A Preservative against Melancholy.
Gathered by Andrew Board, Doctor of Physick. This may be Reprinted, R.
P. _London: Printed for W. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-lane, near
West-Smithfield, and J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street._
=B. L.= 4^o. (7¾ × 5⅜). Q. 8. 3.
Collation: A²B-F⁴, paged. Prologue. Epigram by Scogin. Table of
contents. The date is after 1660. (_See_ Bell, Adam.) There is not
the least evidence for fathering the ‘Scogin’ jests upon Borde.
BRANT, SEBASTIAN.
Stultifera Nauis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum
vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino
sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do.
1570. [Woodcut.] The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all
States, with diuers other workes adioyned vnto the same, very profitable
and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by
Alexander Barclay Priest. [Colophon] _Imprinted at London in Paules
Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. Cum
Priuilegio ad imprimendum solum._
F^o. =B. L.= (11 × 7½). F. 13.
Collation: ¶-2¶⁶A-2V⁶2X⁴; A-G⁶; A-D⁶, folios numbered in
first alphabet. Epistle dedicatory from Alexander Barclay to Thomas
Cornissh, Bishop of Bath, in Latin. Latin verses by Iacobus Locher.
Latin epistle of the same to Sebastian Brant, dated, Friburg, Feb.
1, 1497. Commendatory verses in Latin by the same to Brant. More
Latin verses by the same. Latin verses by the same to Johannes
Bergmannus de Olpe. Latin verses by Brant to Locher. Latin prologue
by Locher. Same in English. Introductory verses in Latin and
English. Prose Argument in Latin and English. Latin verses by
Locher, and by Brant. Copy of English verses. Text of the ‘Ship of
Fools’ with woodcuts. At the end is the note ‘Thus endeth the Ship
of Fooles, Translated out of Latin, French and Duch, into Englishe,
by Alexander Barclay Priest, at that time Chaplen in the Colledge
of S. Mary Otery in the Countie of Deuon. Anno Domini. 1508.’ More
Latin verses by Locher. English verses by the translator. Table of
contents in Latin and English. The second alphabet contains, with
head-title, ‘The Mirrour of good Maners. Conteining the foure
Cardinal Vertues, compiled in Latin by Dominike Mancin, and
translated into English by Alexander Barclay priest, and Monke of
Ely. At the desire of the right worshipfull syr Giles Alington
Knight.’ Latin and English in parallel columns. At the end verses,
in Latin and English, by Petrus Carmelianus. The third alphabet
contains, with head-title, ‘Certayne Egloges of Alexander Barclay
Priest, Whereof the first three conteyne the miseryes of Courtiers
and Courtes of all princes in generall, Gathered out of a booke
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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