Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript/Bibliographical Descriptions

Bibliographical Descriptions (Peter McCullough): Lancelot Andrewes, Apospasmatia Sacra (1657) COPY 1. Union Theological Seminary (EEBO; UMI Wing 303:1) Title. [within double rules] APOSPASMATIA SACRA: | or | A Collection of posthumous and oraph | LECTURES: | Delivered at St. Pauls and St. Giles his Church, | BY | The Right Honourable | AND | Reverend Father in God | LANCELOT ANDREWS, | Lord Bishop of VVinchester. | [rule] | Never before extant. | [rule] | Apothanon eti laleitai Heb. 11.4. | [rule] | [device: shield with coat of arms of Cambridge Univ.; cf. McKerrow 399] | [rule] | LONDON, | Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, for H. Moseley, A. Crooke, | D. Pakeman, L. Fawne, R. Royston, and N. Ekins. 1657. Formula. 2o in 4s: )(4 2)(4 3)(4 4)(2 b–d4 A–Z4 2A–2Z4 3A–3P4 3Q–3S2 3T–3Z4 4A–4S4; [$3 signed (- )(1, 4)(2, d3, P1, 2H3, 3Z1, 3Q2, 3R2, 3S2; 2O1 signed ‘O’)]; 367 leaves, pp. i–lii 1–111 112–114 115–245 246–248 249–312 305–351 352–354 363–499 500–502 515–694 (misprinting 7 as ‘6’, 131 as ‘132’, 265 as ‘272’, 266 as ‘247’, 271 as ‘251’, 272 as ‘265’, 323 as ‘326’, 326 as ‘323‘, 454 as ‘445’, 613 as ‘413’ Paper. (microfilm) Types. (microfilm) Contents. )(1, title (verso blank); )(2, The Preface; b1 Elenchus Latino–Anglus Omnium Concionum totius Libri; Numerus paginam indicat. . . .Index Concionum in Caput Primum Geneseôs; b3v Index Concionum in Caput Secundum Geneseôs; c1 Index Concionum in Caput Tertium Geneseôs c3 Index Concionum in Caput Quartum Geneseôs; d1 Index Concionum diversarum, ex veteri et novo Testamento; d4 Lectures Preached upon the first chapter of Genesis (half title; verso blank); A1 Lectures, Preached at Saint Paules London; P1 Lectures Preached upon the Second Chapter of Genesis (half title; verso blank); P2 Lectures preached in Saint Pauls Church London; 2H4 Lectures Preached upon the Third Chapter of Genesis (half title; verso blank); 2I Lectures. Preached in Saint Pauls Church, London; 2R1 Lectures Preached in the Parish Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, London; 2Z1 Lectures Preached upon the fourth Chapter of Genesis (half title; verso blank); 2Z2 Lectures Preached in the Parish Church of St Giles without Cripplegate London; 3T1 Lectures Preached upon Several choice Texts, both out of of the Old and New Testament (half title; verso blank); 3T2 Lectures Preached in the Parish Church of St Giles without Cripplegate London; 4O1 Addenda; on 4S3v ‘FINIS’ Running Titles. )(2v–4)(2v The Preface; b1v–d3 Index Capitum A1v–O4, P2v–2H3, 2I1v–2Q4v, Lectures preached in St. Pauls Church.; 2r1v–2Y4, 2Z2v–3S2 Lectures preached in St. Giles’s Church | without Cripplegate 4S3v Lectures preached in St. Giles’s Church, &c. Catchwords. 2f2 ‘Of’ ‘De’ 2N3 ‘offend’ ‘offended’ 2P4v ‘An’ ‘Another’ 2X4v ‘than’ ‘then’ 3B4v ‘an’ ‘and’ 3E2 ‘eth’ ‘teth’ 3O1 ‘Lamech’ ‘Assumpsit’ 3Q2 ‘Socondly,’ ‘Secondly,’ 4D1 ‘Sacra-’ ‘Sacrament’ 4D4 ‘ter,’ ‘ter.’ 4E2v ‘the’ ‘of’ 4E4v ‘there-’ ‘therefore’ 4G2v ‘chapter,’ ‘chapter.’ 4L1v ‘the’ ‘for’ Notes. On balance, not a substandard piece of printing. The impression of sloppiness derives mostly from the copy text and lack of editorial intervention before its typesetting. Signatures are sequent and catchwords reliable, with only a few exceptions to the latter. Most egregious printer’s fault is in pagination. Detailed marginal instructions to ‘insert’ sermons of ‘Addenda’ elsewhere in sequence are clearly for readers, not setters. Preface and Index set together, after the setting of the main body (cf. how index integrates and rationalises the ‘Addenda’ texts with those in the main run); since Preface and Index set last and use the faulty pagination, highly unlikely that any copies would have a corrected run of pagination (this would render index unusable). That the ‘Addenda’ texts begin with a new gathering (4O) might further suggest that they derive from an MS copy text independent of that of the main run of lectures/sermons (note also that in addition to supplying texts no in the main run, they also include dates not found in the main run). 1. Eyre, Rivington and Plomer, eds., A Transcription of the Registers of the … Company of Stationers from 1640–1708, vol. II, p. 20: ‘27 Novemb[er] 1655. M[aster] Richard Hodgkinson Entred (under the hand of Master NORTON Warden) a booke called fourty lectures preached in St Pauls Church upon the first, second, third & fourth chap. of GENESIS; and fourty five lectures preached in the parish church of St Giles, Cripplegate upon severall texts, by Lancelot Andrews, DD, late Bp of Winchester’. NB how drastically this differs from text as printed (98 lectures on Genesis 1–4, 25 lectures on ‘other texts’; however, if the 9 Genesis lectures contained in the ‘Addenda’ are placed with the ‘upon severall texts’ group here, the numbers would be 89 and 34–?; OR if the printed texts are divided by place of preaching, count = 71 at St Paul’s, 33 at St Giles). NB how Register entry places all Genesis lectures ‘in St Paul’s’, with all on other texts ‘in St. Giles’s’. If Hodgkinson had looked at MS closely enough to give it a title (‘a booke called’), then surely this would be an accurate count and assignment of place of preaching? And where is the consortium of Moseley, Crooke, Pakeman, Fawne, Royston, and Ekins and their interest in the publication? Did they get involved when they contributed further MSS for inclusion (Moseley had title to several Andrewes works already), or did they underwrite the publication financially? Or did Thomas Pierce (author of intro) add things? 2. )(1 autograph ‘Jos: Glanville | pretiu[m]. 11s.’ Joseph Lanvill (1636–1680), theologian and Anglican controversialist; BA Exeter College Oxford 1655, migr. to Lincoln College 1656, MA 1658, chaplain to Francis Rouse (Provost of Eton) 1659, ord. priest by Robert Sanderson 1660. 3. passim many MS emendations (by Glanvill?) correcting egregious typesetting errors. 4. Title page. Graeco-Latin title = ‘Holy Fragments’. Greek epigram (Heb. 11.4) = ‘he being dead yet speaketh’. Coat of arms (Cambridge University); used by Hodgkinson for at least one other publication by a Cambridge-educated author (Henry Spelman, Villare Anglicum, 1656); Hodgkinson used arms of Oxford for publications by Oxonian Robert Vilvain; Hodgkinson seems not to have used a device of his own in any of his publications. 5. Formula. NB: disturbance in pagination coincides with shift within lectures on Genesis 3 from St. Paul’s 1590 to St. Giles 1598. 6. Catchwords. Formula here gives catchword as given on stated fol. followed by word in text following. Slippage on 2f2 and 3O1 from English to Latin (both instances being catchwords linked to Biblical texts given at new sermon headings) might suggest that MS copy text had Biblical texts in both English and Latin, whereas only Latin was set (as an economy?). 7. NB: UMI photographer (presumably confused by disturbance in typesetters’ pagination) duplicates several leaves in 2S and 2U. COPY 2. University of Oxford, Bodleian Library (V.1.14. Th.Seld.) Title. as Copy 1. Formula. as Copy 1, EXCEPT: 2X2 signed ‘X2’; pg. 613 is ‘613’ Paper. Mix of two watermarks: 1. pot with initials ‘PH’; 2. shield within a double circle, bend, initials (?) in dexter chief. Chainlines vertical (confirming folio). Type. body 88. face 80x2:3 = pica roman. This for the overwhelming majority of type set. Some italic and greek; brevier for marginalia. Type, format, etc. does not change throughout body of main text, suggesting all set in Hodgkinson’s shop. Ornaments. )(2 block orn (100 x 31mm), crowned royal arms with garter supported by crowned lion (l) and unicorn (r) surrounded by thistles and Tudor roses (largest crowned); A1 block orn (82 x 39mm), naked female bust w/ outstretched arms flanked by (West Indian? African?) naked women seated with cornucopias; passim range of modest orn. block capitals, ca. 30x30mm; half-title pages without orn. Notes. Two variants in formula between Copies 1 & 2 confirm that there were minor press-corrections during run. A clean copy with no contemporary mariginalia or marks (except succession of 3 Bodleian shelfmarks on front pastedown); a modern hand corrects pagination in pencil. Front board (not contemporary) detached. COPY 3. Queen’s College, Oxford (68.A.8) Title. as Copy 1. Formula. as Copy 1, EXCEPT: 2O1 signed correctly (‘Oo’); 3T1 not signed; p. 266 correct (‘266’); p. 271 correct (‘271’). 3S4 is integral (not pasted-down) Paper. as Copy 1. Type. as Copy 1. Ornaments. as Copy 1. Notes. Further incidental variants in formula between both Copy 1 and Copy 2 confirm further minor press-corrections. 1. Contemporary calf binding, from front board almost detached. 2. Endpapers visible: facing )(A1 C17 printed text (‘Jezabel swore by her gods, and is eaten by’; ‘house, lest thou be an accursed thing like it; but shalt be utterly de-’ 3. )(1 ms inscription: ‘Tho: Charles 1789’ (1755–1814; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist preacher; author of Welsh Bible transs. and catechisms; ODNB). In the same hand (?) some underlining pp. 207–8; large hand-pointer to 1st new para., p. 351. Otherwise a clean copy.