(Supplementary to, and corrective of, pp. 5–7.) From December 1517 to February “1519” (1519 1. Burley on Aristotle (1517, see p. 5).Copies known. Oxford—Bodleian. Oxford—St. John’s College. The titlepage is reproduced in plate VI. The Royal Arms on the penultimate page of this treatise, and also in the 1518 Burley’s Principia, are a wood engraving which belonged to Winkin de Worde, as I am informed by Mr. E. G. Duff. 2. Dedicus (1518, May, see p. 6).On the title is the woodcut mark of John Scolar engraved in Berjeau’s Printers’ Marks (Lond. 1866) no. 81, and his Bookworm (Lond. 1868), no. 32, p. 126: see also the Corrections and Additions to Chandler’s Catalogue of editions of Aristotle’s Ethics (Oxf. 1868), p. 7. Copies known. London—British Museum, bought at the Crawford sale, 1891, lot 932. The last leaf with colophon is also in MS. Harl. 5929, fol. 41. Oxford—Corpus Christi College, wanting titlepage. Oxford—Jesus College (two copies). Cambridge—University Library: which has also a fragment containing the greater part of pp. 1–12, 14–17. Edinburgh—University Library (wants 4 leaves, sign. I 3–6). King’s Norton Parish Library. A copy was in the Inglis sale, 1826. 3. De Luce (1518, June 5: see p. 6).Copies known. Oxford—Bodleian. Oxford—Jesus College. Cambridge—University Library. 4. Burley’s Principia (1518, June 7: see p. 5).Copies known. Oxford—Bodleian. Oxford—Jesus College. Cambridge—University Library, wanting D 4. The titlepage is reproduced in plate VII. See note on the 1517 Burley, p. 263. 5. Whittington (1518, June 27: see p. 7, where in l. 3 protouatis is a misprint for prothouatis. The square brackets in the title may now be removed).Copies known. Oxford—Bodleian (imperfect). Oxford—Jesus College. Cambridge—University Library. Cambridge—Pembroke College (six copies). John Rylands Library. Ham House. 6. Laet (1518?: see p. 6).The title is now known to be “Prenostica” simply. The parts known are (1) from the Cambridge copy, from the top a head line and 34 lines, Copies known. Oxford—Corpus Christi College (28 fragments of the upper and lower parts). Cambridge—University Library (two fragments). 7. Compotus (1519: see p. 7).Beneath the title is a woodcut, 5¾ × 4? in., representing a master at his desk, with a birch in his left hand and a book in his right: above him and on each side are other volumes, and before him five students on a bench with their books. Two windows are in the background. On A 2r is a diagram of the open hand (5 × 3? in.), for purposes of computation: and different diagrams of the hand or part of it are on A 2v, A 4r, A 4v. Copy known. Cambridge—University Library. Details of the Early Sixteenth Century Press.
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