Books in Canterbury Cathedral Library
owned by William Somner (1598–1669)
11 January 2009
revised
David J. Shaw
List of titles based on output from the University of Kent Voyager system
With a transcription of the ownership inscriptions.
(29 January 2009)
Arranged by date of purchase or gift, and by date of publication for the undated inscriptions.See also: Entry in the Donors' Book for John and William Somner.
Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU. Telephone: +44 (0)1227 764000. Fax: +44 (0)1227 823984. Email: library-enquiry@kent.ac.uk
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- 1633
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Panciroli, Guido. TITLE Guidonis Pancirolli Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum pars prior [-posterior] commentarijs illustrata, ... ab Henrico Salmuth. ... PUBLISHER Francofurti : sumptibus Godefridi Tampachij, 1629 [-1631] DESCRIPTION 2v. (349, 313p.), fold. plate ; 4. NOTES Date vol. 1 from dedication. — Vol. 2 'typis Casparis Rötelii'. — Vol. 1 with engr. tp. — Translated from Italian (vol. 2 tp). CLASSMARK W/G-2-38 NOTES Bound in 1 vol. Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: William [erased] [in Somner's hand:] 1633 Pretium — 5s — 6d [William] Somner
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- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Cowell, John, LL.D. TITLE The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words: ... mentioned in the lawe writers, or statutes of this ... Kingdome, ... Collected by Iohn Cowell ... PUBLISHER At Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607. DESCRIPTION [291] leaves ; 4. CLASSMARK W/C-2-56 Inscription on title page: Edward Cornford his booke Bought of Mathwe Gannon[?] the 26 of aprill i m 627. On second front free endpaper: Edward Corneford and Richard Corneford On verso of second front free endpaper: 1634 Willm Somner. Pretium — 4s 6d
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- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Somner, William, 1606-1669 TITLE The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall. ... With an appendix ... wherein ... the ... records of chiefest consequence, are ... exhibited. ... by ... William Somner. PUBLISHER London : Printed by I. L[egat] for Richard Thrale, 1640. DESCRIPTION [16], 516, [14]p., fold. plates : map ; 4. NOTES Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/S-11-14 Somner’s interleaved copy with his annotations ================================================================================
- 1641
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Caesar, Caius Julius. TITLE C. Iulii Caesaris rerum gestarum commentarii XIV. ... De bello Gallico, ... A. Hirtii de eodem, ... Eutropii Epitome ... Cum ... annotationibus: Henrici Glareani, Fulvii Ursini ... Francisci Hotomani, ... Aldi Manutii, ... Ex musaeo Iacobi Stradae ... PUBLISHER Francofurti ad Moenum : [colophon:] Impressum apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Iac. Stradae Mantuani, 1575. DESCRIPTION 2pts (265; 35, 207p.) : ill. ; 2. CLASSMARK W/A-5-7 Inscription on title page: Pretium 11s. W.S. 1641 ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Camden, William. TITLE Britain, or a chorographicall description of ... England, Scotland, and Ireland, and ilands adioyning, ... Written first in Latine by William Camden ... translated ... by Philemon Holland ... revised, amended, and enlarged ... PUBLISHER Londini : [Eliot's Court Press,] Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1610. DESCRIPTION [16], 822, [2], 233, [55]p., fold. plates : ill., maps ; 2. NOTES Dedication leaf follows addit. engr. tp. — Printer from STC. CLASSMARK W/G-5-16 Inscription on frontispiece: 1641 Pretium — 25s. At 2d hand W.S. ______________________________ CLASSMARK H/Os-21 ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. TITLE A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts ... of Great Britain, diuided into two bookes; the latter containing twelve songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. ... PUBLISHER London : Printed for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand and Thomas Dewe, 1622. DESCRIPTION 2pts (303, 168p.), plates : maps ; 2. NOTES Title Poly-olbion on addit. engr. tp (reissue of 1612 edition), preceded by printed leaf. CLASSMARK W/L-7-19 Inscription on title page: 1641. Pretium — 7s 6d. W. S. ================================================================================
- 1643
- ================================================================================ TITLE The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons, newly collected out of ... monumentes of the ... Saxons, ... PUBLISHER At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, 1571. DESCRIPTION [12], 408p. ; 4. NOTES Published under the direction of Matthew Parker, by John Fox (STC & DMH). CLASSMARK W/I-4-21 Inscription on title page: 31° Martij 1643. Pretium — 5s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Casaubon, Isaac. TITLE Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum ... epistola; ... PUBLISHER Londini : Excudebat Ioannes Norton, 1611. DESCRIPTION [2], 172,[2]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/P-3-35 Inscription on second front free endpaper: Edward Aldey Inscription on title page (erased): Stephanus: Huffam. 1611 Inscription on second front free endpaper: Wmi Somner ex dono Mri Aldey 15° Maij 1643. ================================================================================
- 1644
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Hund, Wigulejus. TITLE Metropolis Salisburgensis ... Continens primordia Christianae religionis per Boiariam et loca ... vicina; ... collecta a ... VViguleo Hund ... Accesserunt ... diplomata ... Impp. Regum, principum etc. ... Notae Christophori Gewoldi ... PUBLISHER Monachi : Ex typographéo Bergiano apud viduam Impensis Ioannis Hertsroy, 1620. DESCRIPTION 3v. (479, 596, 528p.) : ill. ; 2. CLASSMARK W/D-4-12 NOTES Bound in 1 vol. Inscription on title page: Pretium 24s. W.S. 1644 ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Jonson, Ben. TITLE The divell is an asse. A comedie acted in the yeare, 1616 ... The author Ben: Iohnson. PUBLISHER London : Imprinted at London [by Thomas Harper], 1641. DESCRIPTION [4], 66p. ; 2. NOTES Originally published as part of the 1641 reissue of vol. 2 of Jonson's Works; in later issues, it is the only surviving part (Greg, III, 1078). CLASSMARK W2/A-2-12(1) NOTES Bound before vol. 3 of Jonson's Works. — Final blank leaf. Inscription on title page: Pretium — 16s. W.S. 1644 [in same hand:] Worth gold. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Bede. TITLE Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum libri V. a venerabili Beda ... scripti; ... Ab ... Rege Alvredo (sive Alfredo) examinati; ejùsque paraphrasi Saxonicâ ... explicati; ... unà cum annotationibus, & analectis è publicis veteris ecclesiae Anglicanae homiliis aliìsque mss. Saxonicis, ... quibus ... Saxonicam chronologiam ... contexuimus: ... accesserunt Anglo-Saxonicae leges: et ultimò, leges Henrici I. ... PUBLISHER Cantabrigiae : Ex officina Rogeri Daniel, prostant Londini apud Cornelium Bee, 1644. DESCRIPTION [20], 570, [22], 226, [6]p., fold. plate : map ; 2. NOTES Editor, A. Whelock, signs dedication. — The Leges with own tp, headed Archaionomia, pagination and signing. — Half-title. CLASSMARK W/E-6-20 Inscription on half title: Pretium 22s. W.S. 1644 ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Davies, John, Sir. TITLE Le primer report des cases & matters en ley resolue & adiudge en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. Collect et digest per Sr. Iohn Dauys ... PUBLISHER Dublin : Printed by Iohn Franckton, 1615. DESCRIPTION [13], 96 leaves ; 2. CLASSMARK W/H-4-41 Inscription on title page: Pret. 4s. 1644 W.S.
================================================================================ TITLE Le grant coustumier du pays et duche de Normendie ... Auec plusieurs additions, ... par ... Guillaume le Rouille ... Aussi y est le texte en latin ... PUBLISHER Paris : Nouuellement imprime a Paris, par Francoys Regnault, 1534. DESCRIPTION [6], cxlvi, lxxxii, [4] leaves : ill. ; 2. NOTES Tp compartment. CLASSMARK W2/A-2-14 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 16s. W.S. 1644 [in same hand:] Worth gold ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) England. Laws, statutes, etc. 712-1066. TITLE Archaionomia, siue de priscis anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot abhinc seculis conscripti, atque nunc demum, ... è tenebris in lucem vocati. Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. ... PUBLISHER Londini : ex officina Joannis Daij, 1568. DESCRIPTION [19], 140, [3] leaves : ill., map ; 4. NOTES Anglo-Saxon and Latin. — 1st word translit. CLASSMARK W2/X-2-18 NOTES Frequent annotations in Somner's hand Inscription on title page: Rij. Lewkenor [and:] Richardj Lewkenor Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Pretium — 16s. W. Somner. 1644. ================================================================================- 1645
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Besoldus, Christophorus. TITLE De natura populorum, eiusque pro loci positu, ac temporis decursu variatione: et ... de linguarum ortu atque immutatione, philologicus discursus. Auctore Christophoro Besoldo. EDITION Editio secunda, duplo auctior priori. PUBLISHER Tubingae : Typis Philiberti Brunii, 1632. DESCRIPTION [2], 156p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/P-3-24 Inscription on verso of second front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri Ex dono Amici sui colendiss. D. D. Casauboni. A°. 1645. ================================================================================
- 1646
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Jonson, Ben. TITLE The magnetick lady: or, Humors reconcil'd. A comedy composed by Ben: Iohnson. PUBLISHER London : printed, M.DC.XL. = 1640 [-1641] DESCRIPTION 3 pts ; 2. NOTES No tp, title from first part. — Parts often bound in different order. — Some parts dated 1641. — Often bound with 1641 Devil is an ass, or with complete pt 2 of Works. — Includes Jonson's tr. of Horace's Ars poetica. CLASSMARK W2/A-2-12(2) NOTES Bound with 1641 ed. of The Devil. Inscription on title page: Pretium 9s. W.S. 1646. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Saxo, Grammaticus. TITLE Danica historia libris XVI, ... conscripta. Auctore Saxone Grammatico ... PUBLISHER Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina typographica And. Wecheli, 1576. DESCRIPTION [8], 342, [24]p. ; 2. NOTES Ed., P. Lonicerus, signs dedication. — Colophon leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/E-6-6(1) NOTES 2 leaves of medieval illuminated MS as pastedowns Inscription on title page: Pretium — 15s. W.S. 1646.
================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Vossius, Gerardus, Canon. TITLE Gerardi Joannis Vossii De vitiis sermonis, et glossematis Latino-Barbaris, libri quatuor, ... PUBLISHER Amstelodami : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1645. DESCRIPTION [32], 824, [82]p. ; 4. NOTES With errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/K-1-40 NOTES Fragment of MS in bdg. — Extensive notes in Somner's hand Inscription on title page: Pretium 10s. W.S. 1646. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Cerda, Joannes Ludovicus de la. TITLE Io. Ludouici de la Cerda ... Aduersaria sacra ... Accessit eodem autore, Psalterij Salomonis ex Graeco MS. codice peruetusto, Latina versio, & ad Tertulliani librum de Pallio commentarius auctior ... PUBLISHER Lugduni : Sumpt. Ludouici Prost. haeredis Rouille, 1626. DESCRIPTION [22], 516, [36], 20, [2], 70, [8]p. ; 2. NOTES Includes the text of De pallio. — Half-title and engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/N-7-26 Inscription on title page: Pretium 10s. W.S. 1646. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) White, Richard. TITLE Ricardi Viti ... Historiarum Britanniae insulae, ab origine mundi, ad annum Christi octingentesimum, libri nouem priores, ... PUBLISHER [Duaci] : Apud Carolum Boscardum [colophon, vol.6:] Attrebati, ex typographia Gullielmi Riverii, 1602[1598-1602] DESCRIPTION 9v. : ill. ; 8. NOTES Edited by T. White and A. Vitus (BM). — Part of an eleven vol. work, of which vols. 1—8 had appeared previously. — Vols. 6—9 each with own tp, pagination and signing. — Pr. town from vols 6—9. CLASSMARK W/P-6-29 NOTES Bound in 1 vol. Inscription on verso of fourth front free endpaper: Pretium – 5s. W. Somner. 1646. ================================================================================- 1647
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Clemangiis, Nicolaus de. TITLE Nicolai de Clemangiis ... opera omnia. quà partim ex antiquissimis editionibus, partim ex MS. ... Theodori Canteri, descripsit, coniecturis notisque ornavit, & primus edidit. Iohannes Martini Lydius. ... Accessit ejusdem glossarium Latinobarbarum. ... PUBLISHER Lugduni Batauorum : Apud Iohannem Baluinum, impensis Lud. Elzeuirij & Henr. Laurencij, 1613. DESCRIPTION [28], 86, [14], 191, [1], 359, [1]p. ; 4. NOTES Engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/E-3-57 Inscription on title page: Pretium — vjs. W.S. 1647.
================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Casaubon, Méric. TITLE Merici Casauboni, ... De verborum usu, et accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate, diatriba. PUBLISHER Londini : Typis M. Flesher: sumptibus R. Mynne, 1647. DESCRIPTION [16], 173, [1]p. ; 12. NOTES 2 (?) blank leaves precede tp. CLASSMARK W/P-5-55 NOTES Lacks A1, blank? Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri, ex dono Authoris [1647?] ================================================================================- 1648
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. TITLE Effigies Pontificum romanorumcum eorum uitis in compendium redactis ... Cuius ope et opera nunc denuo castigatiores in lucem prodeunt; additis, quae deerant, insignibus Pontificiis ... Io. Baptistae Cauallerij aeneis typis. PUBLISHER Romae : [colophon:] typis Bartholomaei Bonfadini, 1595. DESCRIPTION [7], 236, [10] leaves : ill. ; 8. NOTES Engr. tp. — Cavalieri's arms on final leaf. CLASSMARK W2/X-3-3 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper, partly obscured by later label: Jo: Barkerj Inscription on label on verso of front free endpaper, pasted over earlier inscription: Sum Joh:is Ludd Ex dono [Jo:Barkerj] vndecimo die Julij. Anno Dom. 1613. Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Esto hic liber in posterum Mri Gulielmi Somnerj. In testimonium benevolentiæ suæ sic vult Jo: Ludd. 17 Febr. 1648. ================================================================================
- 1649
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) King, John, Bp. TITLE Lectures vpon Ioanas, deliuered at Yorke, in ... 1594. By Iohn Kinge: Newly corrected ... PUBLISHER At London : Imprinted by H. L[ownes] and are to be sould by Arthur Iohnson, 1611. DESCRIPTION [10], 660, [2], 661-683, [2], 684-706p. ; 4. NOTES With Sermon preached at the funerals of Iohn; Arch-bishop of Yorke (i.e. J. Piers); Sermon preached in Yorke. CLASSMARK W/E-2-21 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: 1649. Gulielmi Somneri, ex dono V.C. nuper Joannis Luddi, mag. Scholæ regiæ apud Cantuar. Archididascali doctissimi, digniss. Qui, præter hunc, plures alios optimæ notæ libros, eidem, testamento legavit.
================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Saravia, Hadrianus. TITLE Diuersi tractatus theologici,ab Hadriano Sarauia editi: ... PUBLISHER Londini : [R. Field] Ex typographia Societatis Stationariorum, 1611 [1610-11] DESCRIPTION [14], `29' [i.e. 92], [14], 382, 21, [11], 314p. ; 2. NOTES Most of the tracts have own tps, dated 1610. — Includes Defensio tractationis contra defensionem Bezae. CLASSMARK W/K-6-14 NOTES bdg, gold-stamped Inscription on title page: Sum Johannis Luddj ex dono Authoris Patroni suj Colendissimi. Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri, ex dono V.C. D. Joannis Luddi, præceptoris, vt et amici sui quondam charissimi, scholæ regiæ apud Cantuar. Gymnasiarchæ doctiss. Digniss. Qui, præter hunc, plures alios haud minoris notæ libros, eidem, testamento facto, contulit, A.D. 1649. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Willet, Andrew. TITLE Synopsis Papismi, that is, a generall view of Papistrie: wherein the ... iniquitie, ... is set downe, which is maintained ... by ... Rome, ... EDITION This fourth time ... published. PUBLISHER At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and are to be sold by Henry Fetherston, 1614. DESCRIPTION [22], 1352, [36]p. ; 2. NOTES Author from dedication. CLASSMARK W/I-5-4 Inscription on verso of second front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri ex dono Dudlæi Wyld armigeri 20° Martij 1649 ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Rider, John. TITLE Riders Dictionarie, corrected and augmentedwith the addition of many hundred words ... Whereunto is joyned a Dictionarium etymologicall, ... now newly corrected and ... augmented by Francis Holy-Oke. PUBLISHER London : Imprinted by Felix Kingston, 1649. DESCRIPTION [802] leaves ; 4. NOTES The Dictionarium etymologicum has a separate collective tp (1648: 6th edition 'newly corrected') naming Rider's Dictionary as the second work. CLASSMARK W/N-3-23 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: 1649. Gul. Somneri, et amicorum, ex dono Typographi [Felix Kingston] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Andrewes, Lancelot. TITLE Reverendi in Christo patris, Lanceloti, Episcopi VVintoniensis, Opuscula quaedam posthuma. PUBLISHER Londini : Excudebat Felix Kyngston pro R. B[adger] & Andraea Hebb, 1629. DESCRIPTION [14], 200, [4], 87, [1]p. ; 4. NOTES Edited by Abp Laud and J. Buckeridge (STC). — Includes repr. of Concio Latinè habita coram regia majestate. — In response to Du Perron's Replique à la response du serenissime Roy de la Grand Bretagne. — Each work with own tp. — Collective tp to pt 2, Two answers ... and two speeches, is conjugate with overall tp. — Pt 2, with own pagination and signing, begins with tp Stricturae: or, a briefe answer. CLASSMARK W/N-3-27(1) Inscription on first section title: Joh: Ludd. Inscription on title page: Jo: Ludd. [In William Somner's hand:] Eius autem ex dono, Gul. Somneri, cui præter hunc, plures alios haud minoris notæ libros, testamento facto, idem contulit, A° Dni. 1649 ================================================================================- 1651
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Jeremiah the prophet, TITLE [Hebrew] Sive, Jeremiae vatis Lamentationes denuò è fontibus Hebraicis translatae, cum paraphrasi Chaldaica, Masora magna & parva, & commentariis Rabbi Shelomoh, Jarchi & Aben Ezrae, è Buxtorfii Bibliis magna excerptis. opera Francisci Tayleri. PUBLISHER Londini : Impensis Johannis Ridley, 1651. DESCRIPTION [5], 103 p. NOTES Errata page. CLASSMARK W/R-3-4(3) Inscription on verso of blank leaf preceding title page : Gul. Somneri ex dono doctiss. Editoris [Francis Tayler, 1651?]
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Hammond, Henry. TITLE Of the reasonableness of Christian religion. By H.H. ... EDITION The second edition. PUBLISHER London : printed by J.F. for R. Royston, 1650. DESCRIPTION 164 [2]p. ; 12. CLASSMARK Elham 1178 Inscription [not Somner's] on verso of second front free endpaper: pret: 10s. 1651. ================================================================================
- 1652
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Florio, John. TITLE A worlde of wordes, or ... dictionarie in Italian and English, collected by Iohn Florio. PUBLISHER London : printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount, 1598. DESCRIPTION [20], 462p. ; 2. NOTES 1st leaf blank. — Tp compartment. CLASSMARK W2/A-7-5 Inscription on title page: John Boys Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Guilielmi Somneri, ex dono V. Cl. Johannis Boys de Hoth Court in suburbijs Cantuar. Armigeri, Junij 21° Anno Dni. 1652
================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Ward, Samuel, Master of Sidney Coll., Cambridge. TITLE De baptismatis infantilis vi & efficacia disceptatio, ... inter ... Samuelem Wardum, ... et Thomam Gatakerum ... PUBLISHER Londini : Typis Rogeri Danielis, 1652. DESCRIPTION [8], 271, [1]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/P-2-19 Inscription on verso of second front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri, ex dono Dni. Francisci Taylor, S.T.B. ac Dni. Gatakeri generi doctissimi. 1652. ================================================================================- 1653
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Giphanius, Obertus. TITLE Huberti Giphanii ... Tractatus de diversis regulis juris antiqui utilissimus. ... PUBLISHER Argentorati : Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1607. DESCRIPTION [16], 261, [27]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/L-1-40 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri, Cantuarien. Ex dono D. Edovardi Aldry, ecclesiæ S. Andreæ in ead. Vrbi Rectoris dignissimi, A.D. 1653. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Schedius, Elias. TITLE Eliae Schedii de diis germanis, sive veteri germanorum, gallorum, britannorum, vandalorum religione syngrammata quatuor. PUBLISHER Amsterodami : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1648. DESCRIPTION [32], 505, [23]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/P-4-14 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Guil. Somneri Cantuarien. Ex dono Viri non minùs eruditi quàm humani, Thomæ White Aldingtonensis apud Cantianos, a°. 1653. =============================================================================== AUTHOR(S) Filmer, Robert, Sir. TITLE Quaestio quodlibetica,or a discourse, whether it may bee lawfull to take use for money. PUBLISHER London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1653. DESCRIPTION [40], 149, [1]p. ; 12. NOTES By Sir R. Filmer, ed. by Sir R. Twysden who signs the address to the reader. CLASSMARK W/P-6-19 NOTES bdg Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gulielmo Somnero, viro doctissimo, patriarumque antiquitatum pientissimo, ab editore munusculum. Roger Twysden [c. 1653] ================================================================================
- 1655
- ================================================================================ TITLE Masekhet avot derabiy tanan [sic]: Tractatus de patribus: Rabbi Nathane autore. In linguam latinam translatus, unà cum notis marginalibus. Opera Francisci Taileri ... PUBLISHER Londini : Typis E. Cotes, impensis G. & H. Eversden, 1654. DESCRIPTION [8], 142, [2]p. ; 4. NOTES First title translit. — Misprint in Hebrew should read 'natan'. — Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/R-3-4(5) Inscription on verso of blank leaf preceding title page : Gulielmi Somneri ex dono doctiss. editoris [Francis Taylor (1590-1656)] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Du Jon, Fran&ccedi;ois, the Younger. TITLE Francisci Junii F.F. Observationes in Willerami ... Paraphrasin Cantici canticorum. PUBLISHER Amstelodami : apud Christophorum Cunradi typis & sumtibus authoris. Prostant apud Adrianum Vlacq, 1655. DESCRIPTION [16], 311, [25]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W2/X-3-37 Inscription on verso of second front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri ex dono doct. Authoris 1655. with some marginal notes in Somner's hand. ================================================================================
- 1657
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Cosin, John, Bp. TITLE A scholastical history of the Canon of the Holy Scripture or the certain and indubitate books thereof, as they are received in the Church of England. Compiled by Dr. Cosin ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait, 1657. DESCRIPTION [36], `214' (i.e. 224), [46]p., plate ; 4. NOTES Addit. engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/L-5-40 Inscription on label pasted on recto of engraved title page: Gulielmi Somneri Ex dono V. doctiss. Joannis Stanlæi. 1657 ================================================================================
- 1658
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Crellius, Johannes, Socinian. TITLE The expiation of a sinner. In a commentary upon the Epistle to the Hebrewes. PUBLISHER London : Printed by Tho. Harper, to be sold by Charles Greene, 1646. DESCRIPTION [8], 363, [1]p. ; 2. NOTES A translation based on the Latin of J. Crellius and J. Schichtingius. Epistle to reader signed F.M. Attributed by BM to T. Lushington. Licence precedes tp. CLASSMARK W/L-7-30 Inscription on recto of Imprimatur: Guil. Somneri Cantuariensis ex dono Viri scientiâ juxta ac humanitate spectabilis, Ricardi Knowler de Hearne in agro Cantiano 1658 ================================================================================
- [1659]
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Philipot, John, 1589?—1645. TITLE Villare Cantianum: or Kent surveyed and illustrated. ... By Thomas Philipott ... An historical catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of Kent: ... by John Philipott ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by William Godbid and sold at his house, 1659. DESCRIPTION [22], 401, [1]p. : ill., map ; 2. NOTES The work of John Philipot published by his son Thomas. CLASSMARK W2/Q-20-17(1) NOTES 17th cent. printing of Symonson's map included. — Lacks addit. insertion sheet from prelims. Inscription by Thomas Philipot on verso of front free endpaper: viro maximè suscipiendo, Antiquitatis saxonicæ sagacissimo iuxta ac peritissimo Indagatori, Amico suo (ob eximias Dotes) obseruatissimo [altered in Somner's hand to: admodum obseruando] Will: Somnero: Tho: Philipot hoc munusculum, sui Affectus Tesseram, dicat et Deuouet. ================================================================================
- [1660-1668]
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Montagu, Richard, Bp. TITLE The acts and monuments of the Church before Christ incarnate. VVritten by Richard Montagu ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young, 1642. DESCRIPTION [4], 552 p. ; 2. CLASSMARK W/H-4-5 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri Ex dono D. Edwardi Aldey, Canonici Cantuar. (Aldey was a residentiary canon from 1660 to 1673.)
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- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Foulis, Henry. TITLE The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints: representing ... designs of the Jesuite. With the conspiracies, ... of some Presbyterians: ... By Henry Foulis, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by E. Cotes for A. Seile, 1662. DESCRIPTION [16], 247, [1]p. ; 2. CLASSMARK W/H-4-40 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 6s. W.S. 1662
================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Dugdale, William, Sir. TITLE The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes, ... By William Dugdale ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by Alice Warren, 1662. DESCRIPTION [8], 424, [2]p., fold. plates : maps ; 2. CLASSMARK W/G-7-18 Inscription on title page: Guil. Somneri, ex dono benigniss. Authoris [1662; letter of thanks from Somner to Dugdale, dated Canterbury, 11 Apr. 1662 (BL MS Add. 33924, f. 54)]. ================================================================================- 1663
- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Casaubon, Méric. TITLE The question, to whom it belonged anciently to preach: and whether all priests might, or did: ... also, what preaching is, ... By Meric Casaubon, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1663. DESCRIPTION [4], 39,[1]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/R-3-27(2) Inscription on verso of blank leaf before title page: Guil. Somneri, ex dono Authoris. 1663 ================================================================================
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- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Dugdale, William, Sir. TITLE Origines juridiciales,or historical memorials of the English laws, ... Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancelors ... Masters of the Rolls, Kings Attorneys and ... Serjeants at Law, by William Dugdale ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by F. and T. Warren, for the author, 1666. DESCRIPTION [10], 332, [4], 115, [3]p., plates : ill. ; 2. NOTES Licence precedes tp. — Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/H-5-21 Inscription on title page: Guilielmi Somneri; ex dono dignissimi Authoris (c.1666)
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- =============================================================================== TITLE Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Euangelisrum versiones perantiquae duae,Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica: ... depromsit Franciscus Junius ... Hanc antem ex codicibus MSS. collatio ... curavit Thomas Mareschallus, ... Accessit & glossarium Gothicum: cui praemittitur Alphabetum Gothicum, Runicum, &c. ... PUBLISHER Dordrechti : Typis & sumptibus Junianis. Excudebant Henricus & Joannes Essaei, 1665. DESCRIPTION [18], 565, [27], 431, [1]p. ; 4. NOTES Addit. engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/I-4-28(1) Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Guil. Somneri, Cantuarien. Ex dono viri doctiss. D. Edmundi Castell S.T.D. Canonici Eccles. Cantuar. 1668 ================================================================================
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In chronological order of publication.- ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Leland, John, the Antiquary. TITLE Kykneion asma. Cygnea cantio. Autore Ioanne Lelando ... PUBLISHER Londini, 1545. DESCRIPTION [82] leaves ; 4. NOTES With his Commentarii in Cygneam cantionem. — 1st title translit. CLASSMARK W2/X-3-24 Inscription on verso of second front free endpaper: Guil. Somneri Cantuarien. Ex dono Cornelij Bee, bibliopolæ Londinensis ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Linacre, Thomas. TITLE Rudimenta grammatices Thomae Limacri [sic], ex Anglico sermone in Latinum uersa, Georgio Buchanano ... PUBLISHER Lugduni : apud Seb. Gryphium, 1552. DESCRIPTION 96p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W2/X-1-32(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium — 12d. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Stanford, William, Sir. TITLE Les plees del coron: diuisees in plusiours titles & common lieux. ... PUBLISHER London : In aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1557. DESCRIPTION [4], 198 leaves ; 4. NOTES Author from STC. — Texts in Latin, Norman French or English. CLASSMARK W/P-1-48(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium -- 7s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Aelfric, Grammaticus. TITLE A testimonie of antiquitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament ... here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme ... PUBLISHER Imprinted at London : by John Day, [1566?] DESCRIPTION [20], 56, [12] leaves ; 8. NOTES Ed by Matthew Parker and John Josseline (STC). — Errata on final leaf. CLASSMARK W2/X-4-44 Inscription on title page, partly cut away: The gift of [...] [Longelande] being Archdeacon of Buckingam 1589 Inscription on title page: Tho Wood Inscription on title page: Joh. Lud Marginal notes in William Somner's hand ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Llwyd, Humphrey. TITLE Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd, ... PUBLISHER Coloniae Agrippinae : apud Ioannem Birckmannum, 1572. DESCRIPTION [8], '79' [i.e. 78] leaves ; 8. CLASSMARK H/Yy-6-15(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium 18s. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Caius, John. TITLE De antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academiae libri duo. Aucti ab ipso authore plurimùm. ... de Oxoniensis quoque gymnasii antiquitate disseritur, ... Johanne Caio ... authore. Adiunximus assertionem antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiae, ab Oxoniensi quodam ... PUBLISHER Londini : in aedibus Johannis Daij, 1574. DESCRIPTION 2 pts (268, 27p.) ; 4. NOTES Errata leaf inserted after main text. — Assertio, with own tp, pagination and signing, written by Thomas Caius. CLASSMARK W/T-9-25(1) On verso of second free endpaper: Tamquam explorator [Ben Jonson???] 1631. Pretium — 4s. the best edition. William Watts [In a different hand:] A quo pretio quo supra emptus per Williami Somneri [the elder??] Inscription on title page: for the nether Diall Chamber. [and lower down:] For the Diall Chamber ================================================================================= AUTHOR(S) Whitgift, John. TITLE The defense of the aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift ... PUBLISHER London : printed at London by Henry Binneman for Humfrey Toye, 1574. DESCRIPTION [24], 812, [12]p. ; 2. NOTES T.C. = T. Cartwright (referring to J. Field and T. Wilcox's Admonition to Parliament). — With the text of the Replye. — Tp compartment. CLASSMARK W2/A-15-2 Inscription on title page (17c): John Fell ex dono R. Bond [and lower down:] John Fell ex dono Ro. Bonde Inscription on title page: Pretium 4s. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Maranta, Robertus. TITLE Aurea praxis ... Roberti Marantae ... vulgo speculum aureum et lumen aduocatorum inscripta: additionibus ... Petri Follerii ... innumeris locis locupletata & adaucta. Accesserunt ... decem disputationes quaestionum legalium, ... PUBLISHER Lugduni : In off. Q. Philip. Tinghi, Florentini, apud Simphorianum Beraud, et Stephanum Michaelem, 1584. DESCRIPTION [4], '918' [i.e. 618], [110]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/C-3-1 Inscription on title page: Tho: Crashawe
pretium vjs viijdpretium iiijs W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Caradoc, Saint of Llancarfan. TITLE The historie of Cambria, now called Wales: ... written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd ... Corrected, augmented, and continued ... by Dauid Powel ... PUBLISHER [London] : [colophon:] Imprinted at London by Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, [1584] DESCRIPTION [16], 401, [13]p. ; 4. NOTES Date from colophon. — Tp compartment. CLASSMARK W2/A-4-18 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 8s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Rudolphinus de Passageriis, Rolandinus. TITLE Summa artis notariae D. Rolandini Rodolphini ... Cum ... Petri de Boaterijs ... expositione. ... Huic accesserunt. ... Iacobi Butrigarij Renuntiationes iuris ciuilis. Iohannis Iacobi Canis, De tabellionibus libellus. ... PUBLISHER Spirae Nemetum : Apud Bernardum Albinum, 1590. DESCRIPTION [16], 1092, [28]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/L-1-11 Inscription on title page: Pretium. 2s. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Oriano, Lanfrancus de. TITLE Practica iudiciaria super cap. quoniam, de probationibus, Lanfranci de Oriano ... insertis Benedicti Vadij & Celsi Hugonis annotationibus ... Acesserunt ... opuscula, quae de iure fecit ... PUBLISHER Coloniae Agrippinae : Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1592. DESCRIPTION [36], 829,[1]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/P-2-34 Inscription on title page: Pretium ijs W: S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Cosin, Richard. TITLE An apologie for sundrie proceedings by iurisdiction ecclesiasticall, ... Whereunto ... I ... adjoine that ... determination (concerning oaths) ... made by M. Lancelot Androwes ... an. 1591. PUBLISHER London : Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1593. DESCRIPTION 3 pts (130, 140, 255p.) ; 4. NOTES Author from STC. — Also found without date on tp. CATHEDRAL CLASSMARK W/L-1-67/68 NOTES Dated issue. — Bound in 2 vols Extensive notes in a 17c. hand, not certainly that of William Somner. ================================================================================ TITLE Lexicon iuridicum. Hoc est, iuris ciuilis et canonici in schola atque foro ... praecipuè ex Brissonii, Hotomani, & Prateii lexicis, item ex Cuiacii observationibus ... Accessit legum populi Romani ... index. PUBLISHER [Geneva] : Excudebat Iacobus Stoer, 1594. DESCRIPTION [16], 1121, [1]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/B-2-32 Inscription on title page: pretium vs W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Nizolius, Marius. TITLE Marius Nizolius siue Thesaurus Ciceronianus, post ... operas ... Zanchi, Caelii Secundi Curionis, & Marcelli Squarcialupi ... Nunc demum, per Iacobum Cellarium ... locupletatus, multisque à mendis repurgatus. PUBLISHER Basileae : Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, [1595] DESCRIPTION [20]p., 1626 cols, [11]p. ; 2. NOTES Date from colophon on final leaf. CLASSMARK W/C-5-19 Inscription on title page: Pretium —5s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Gaill, Andreas. TITLE Practicarum obseruationum, tam ad processum iudiciarium, ... quam causarum decisiones pertinentium, ... libri duo. De pace publica, ... De pignorationibus, ... De manuum iniectionibus, siue arrestis Imperij, ... tractatus. Per Andream Gaill, ... Editio postrema, ... PUBLISHER Coloniae Agrippinae : Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1595. DESCRIPTION [136], 632, 280, [8]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/C-3-5 NOTES Mid 15th cent. MS endpapers Price inscription on blank front endpaper: pretium 5s. [Not in Somner's normal hand or position in book.] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Willeram. TITLE Willerami abbatis in Canticum Canticorum paraphrasis gemina: prior rhythmis Latinis, altera veteri lingua Francica. Addita explicatio, lingua Belgica; & notae quibus veterum vocum Francicarum ratio redditur. Edente Paullo ... Merula. PUBLISHER Lugduni Batavorum : ex officina Plantiniana apud Christophorum Raphelengium, 1598. DESCRIPTION [28], 179, [1]p. ; 8. NOTES The Frankish text with transcript. CLASSMARK W2/X-3-35 Inscription on seventh front free endpaper: Guilielmi Somneri Cantuariensis, Ex dono (Ob libri tum dignitatem, tum raritatem, nunquam satis æstimando) Viri doctrinâ & moribus consumatissimi, D. Merici Casauboni, Is. Filij, Amici et Mecœnatis sui longè colendissimi, charissimique; qui plures alios optimæ notæ libros & tractatus, à seipso editus, ornatosque dante dignissimos, accipienti gratissimos, eidem Somnero suo dono dedit, Viz. [list of 10 books] ================================================================================ TITLE Thesaurus utriusque linguae, hoc est Philoxeni, aliorumque veterum authorum glossaria Latino-Graeca & Graeco-Latina. Isidori glossae Latinae. ... Edita omnia atque recognita studio & opera Bonaventurae Vulcanii ... cum ejusdem notis, ... PUBLISHER Lugduni Batavorum : Excudebat Ioannis Patius, 1600. DESCRIPTION [8], 826 cols, [16]p., 168, 118 cols, [5]p ; 2. NOTES Onamasticon vocum Latino-Graecarum with own tp and pagination. CLASSMARK W/A-4-14 Inscription on title page: Pretium 25s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Occo, Adolphus. TITLE Impp. Romanorum numismata a Pompeio magno ad Heraclium ... multis nummorum millibus aucta, per Adolphum Occonem ... EDITION Editio altera. PUBLISHER Augustae Vindelicorum : ad insigne pinus, anno saeculi decimi sexti primo [=1601] DESCRIPTION [12], 123, 134-136, 136-591, [16]p. ; 4. NOTES Final colophon leaf (1601). CLASSMARK W2/X-9-5 Inscription on title page: Pretium 25s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Chaucer, Geoffrey. TITLE The workes of ... Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. To ... the former impression, ... is now added. ... the treatise ... Iacke Vpland, ... and ... La priere de nostre dame, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1602. DESCRIPTION [24], 376, [14] leaves : ill. ; 2. NOTES Editor, T. Speght, signs dedication. — J. Lydgate's Storye of Thebes is appended. — Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/N-6-25 NOTES blind-stamped binding, wooden boards. MS notes in sig. Ttt almost certainly in Somner's hand. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Turnebus, Adrianus. TITLE Adriani Turnebi Aduersariorum libri XXX. In quibus variorum auctorum loca intricata explicantur, ... PUBLISHER Aureliopoli : Excudebat Petrus Quercetanus, 1604. DESCRIPTION [8], 694, [80]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/E-3-56 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 4s 6d W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Verstegan, Richard, the Elder. TITLE A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the ... English nation. By ... R.V. ... PUBLISHER Antvverp : Printed at Antvverp by Robert Bruney. And to be sold at London by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, 1605. DESCRIPTION [24], 338, [14]p. : ill. ; 4. NOTES Author signs dedication. CLASSMARK W2/X-2-17 NOTES bdg Interleaved notes in William Somner's hand ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Hall, Joseph, Bp. TITLE Mundus alteret idem siue terra australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus perigrini academici nuperrime lustrata auth. Mercurio Britannico. PUBLISHER Francofurti [=London?] : Apud haeredes Ascanij ac Rinialme [=H. Lownes?], [1605?] DESCRIPTION [16], 224p., folding plates : maps ; 8. NOTES Author from STC. — STC gives printer as H. Lownes, ?1605. CLASSMARK W/P-5-45 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Guil. Somneri, ex dono Cornelij Bee Biblopolæ Londinensis ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Jewel, John. TITLE The works of ... John Iewell, ... newly set forth with ... his life. PUBLISHER London : Printed by [Eliot's Court Press for] Iohn Norton, 1609. DESCRIPTION 4 pts ; 2. NOTES Printer from STC. — Each work with own tp. — Life by D. Featley (BM). CLASSMARK W/I-6-1 NOTES Gwynn, Edward (binding stamp) [Inscription not in William Somner's hand.] ================================================================================ TITLE A mirour for magistrates: ... a ... chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of ... princes ... Newly enlarged with ... A winter nights vision, ... Englands Eliza. PUBLISHER At London : imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610 [1609-10] DESCRIPTION [22], 875, [1]p. ; 4. NOTES Author of (present) 1st pt, J. Higgins, from dedication. - Other poems by G. Ferrars, F. Dingley, T. Churchyard and others, orig. collected by W. Baldwin. — Winters nights vision and Englands Eliza by R. Niccols. CLASSMARK W2/A-3-6 Inscription on title page: Pretium .v. s W: S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Sylvester II, Pope. TITLE Epistolae Gerberti ... postea Romani Pontificis Siluestri secundi ... Epistolae Ioannis Saresberiensis, ... Epistolae Stephani, ... Tornacensis Episcopi, ... nunc primum in lucem editae e Bibliotheca Papirii Massoni, ... PUBLISHER Parisiis : Apud Macaeum Ruette, 1611. DESCRIPTION [16], 722, [34]p. ; 4. NOTES Editor, J. Masson, signs dedication. — Epistolae Stephani X. Nicholai II. et Alexandri II. Pontificum Romanorum appended. CLASSMARK W/I-4-17 NOTES a2 damaged with loss of text Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gul. Somneri, ex dono nobilis illius equit. Aurati et Baronetti, D. Rog. Twysdeni, qui plures alios melioris notæ libros eidem donavit. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Manwood, John. TITLE A treatise of the lawes of the forest: ... also the ... beginning of forests: ... and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a parke, ... Also a treatise of the pourallee, ... Collected ... by Iohn Manwood. Whereunto are added the statutes of the forest, a treatise of the ... offices of verderors, regardors, & the courts ... of the forest, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed for the Societie of Stationers [by A. Islip?], 1615. DESCRIPTION [15], 258 leaves ; 4. CLASSMARK W/C-2-16 Inscription on title page: Pretium 8s. WS. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Orosius, Paulus. TITLE Pauli Orosii ... Aduersus paganos historiarum libri septem. ... vindicati, & ... illustrati, ... studio Franc. Fabritii Marcodurani. Additae nunc demum Ludouici Lautii notae, & ... Andreae Schotti ... recensio. ... accessit eiusdem Orosii Apologeticus contra Pelagium, de arbitrij libertate. PUBLISHER Moguntiae : Sumptibus Petri Cholini, 1615. DESCRIPTION [40], 686p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/P-1-40 Inscription: Guil. Somneri, ex dono Cornelij Bee bibliopolæ Londiniensis ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Ptolemaeus, Claudius. TITLE Ioannis Antonii Magini ... Geographiae, tum veteris, tum novae, volumina duo. In quorum ... Cl: Ptol: ... Geographicae enarrationis libri octo: ... commentarijs ... describuntur. PUBLISHER Arnhemii : exudebat Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617. DESCRIPTION 2v. (184p., 284 leaves), fold. plate : ill., maps ; 4. NOTES Vol. 1 tp engr., vol. 2 tp with border. CLASSMARK W2/A-11-9 NOTES Bound in 1 vol. Inscription on title page: Pretium 10s W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Nannus Mirabellius, Dominicus. TITLE Polyanthea, in libros XX. dispertita. Opus ... cum Graecarum, tum Latinarum refertum. Primum quidem aÌ€ Dominico Nano Mirabellio, Bartholomaeo Amantio, Francisco Tortio, ... collectum. Nunc veroÌ€ a mendis repurgatum, ... studio & opera, Josephi Langii ... PUBLISHER Francofurti : Sumptibus haeredum Lazari Zetzneri, 1617. DESCRIPTION [12], 1530, [2]p. ; 2. NOTES A further vol. (called vol. 2) was comp. by J. Gruterus. — Colophon on final leaf. CLASSMARK W/I-5-34 Inscription on second front free endpaper: Liber Gul. Somner Jun, ex donatione et impensa patris sui charissimi et philologi. Pretium xx s. [not written in Somner's mature hand] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Du Chesne, André. TITLE Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui, ... per Galliam, Angliam, ... Siciliam, & Orientem gestas explicantes, ab ... DCCCXXXVIII. ad ... MCCXX. ... Ex Mss. codd. ... nunc primum edidit Andreas Duchesnius ... PUBLISHER Lutetiae Parisiorum : [colophon] Apud Roberbum Foüet Nicolaum Buon, Sebastianum Cramoisy, 1619. DESCRIPTION [14], 1104, [16]p. ; 2. NOTES Colophon leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/F-5-23 Inscription on title page: Pretium 18s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Gratianus, the Canonist. TITLE Decretum Gratiani, emendatum, et notationibus illustratum: ... Gregorii XIII. ... iussu editum: ... editio ultima. PUBLISHER Taurini : Apud Nicolaum Beuilaquam, 1620. DESCRIPTION [8], 51, [1]p., 2072 cols, 76, [27]p. : ill. ; 2. NOTES Table on final leaf. CLASSMARK W/H-6-16 [Inscription not in Somner's hand.] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Merula, Paulus. TITLE Paulli ... Merulae Cosmographiae generalis libri tres: item Geographiae particularis libri quatuor: ... Europa ... speciatim Hispania, Gallia, Italia, ... PUBLISHER Amsterodami : Apud Henricum Hondium [colophon:] Lugduni Batavorum typis Isaaci Elzevirii sumptibus Iudoci Hondii, 1621. DESCRIPTION 16, 1073, [1]p. : ill., maps ; 2. NOTES Engr. tp. — Colophon dated 1620. CLASSMARK W/F-3-1 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 14s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste. TITLE Du Bartas his diuine weekes and workes ... with ... all the ... workes ... translated and written by ... Iosuah Syluester ... PUBLISHER London : printed by Humphray Lownes : printed by Humfrey Lownes, 1621. DESCRIPTION [28], 1215, [1]p. ; 2. NOTES Engr. tp. — With the Works of J. Sylvester. — Fold-out plate at end with The mysterie of mysteries by Sylvester. CLASSMARK W/R-8-23 Inscription on title page: Pretium – 13s 4d. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Eadmer. TITLE Eadmeri monachi Cantuariensis Historiae nouorum siue sui saeculi libri VI res gestas ... sub Guilielmis I & II & Henrico I ... ab anno ... MLXVI ad MCXXII potissimùm complexi. In lucem ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana emisit Ioannes Seldenus, et notas porrò adjecit ... PUBLISHER Londini : Typis & impensis Guilielmi Stanesbeij, ex officinis Richardi Meighen & Thomae Dew, 1623. DESCRIPTION [6], xvi, 218p. : ill. ; 2. CLASSMARK W/I-6-23 Marginal annotations in William Somner's hand ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Gryphiander, Joannes. TITLE Ioannis Gryphiandri ... De insulis tractatus. Ex ICtis, politicis, historicis, et philologis collectus. ... in quo plurimae cognatae questiones de mari, fluminib., lacubus, littoribus, portubus, ... excutiuntur. PUBLISHER Francofurti : Apud Petrum Kopffium [colophon:] typis Egenolphi Emmelij, [1624] DESCRIPTION [12], 569, [30]p. ; 4. NOTES Date from colophon. — Engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/I-4-18(1) NOTES 2 leaves of prelims misbound at end Inscription on title page: Pretium — 7s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Pliny, the Younger. TITLE C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi ... Epistolarum libri X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus. Cum commentarijs Joannis Mariae Catanaei, ... Adiuncti ... alij, ad alios Caesares, panegyrici, ... PUBLISHER Geneuae : Apud Petrum & Iacobum Chouët, 1625. DESCRIPTION [24], 646, [34], 168, 151, [1]p. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/B-2-11 Inscription on title page: Pretium -6-6d. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Hall, Joseph, Bp. TITLE The works of Joseph Hall ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Meighen, 1625. DESCRIPTION [10], 1397, [29]p. ; 2. NOTES Individual works with own tps (dated 1624-25), the majority 'printed for Thomas Pavier, Miles Flesher and John Haviland'; others printed by or for John Haviland, Hanna Barret, Nathaniel Butter, George Winder. CLASSMARK W/I-5-10 Inscription on title page: pretium — 13s 4d. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Anglerius, Petrus Martyr. TITLE The historie of the West-Indies, containing the actes ... of the Spaniards, ... with varietie of ... the manners, ... gouernments, and warres of the Indians. Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt, and translated ... by M. Lok. PUBLISHER London : Printed for Andrew Hebb, [1625?] DESCRIPTION [5], 318 leaves ; 4. NOTES Author from text. — The first three translated by Richard Eden and five others by Michael Lok. — Issued without date: STC suggests 1625 and BM 1626. CLASSMARK W/L-2-22 Inscription on title page: Pretium. 2s 6d. W: S: ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Minsheu, John. TITLE Minshaei emendatio, vel à mendis expurgatio, seu Augmentatio sui Ductoris in linguas, The guide into tongues. ... etymologies, ... in ... nine languages, ... By the industrie, ... and at the charges of Iohn Minsheu ... EDITION The second edition. PUBLISHER London : Printed by Iohn Haviland and by him sold, 1627. DESCRIPTION [2]p. 760 cols ; 2. CLASSMARK W/B-5-1 NOTES Interleaved with extensive annotations in Somner's hand. Inscription on title page: at top right: Pretium — 20s. In centre of the page: cum additionibus et Notis Manuscr: Saxonicis Gulielmi Somneri Not[ar]ij pub[l]ic[i], auditoris computorum Eccl[es]iae Christi Cantuar[iae]. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Weever, John. TITLE Ancient funerall monuments within ... Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands ... with the dissolued monasteries ... and ... persons ... in the same interred . ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments. ... Of religious orders. ... Composed by ... John Weeuer. PUBLISHER London : Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Laurence Sadler, 1631. DESCRIPTION [16], 871, [15]p., plate : ill. ; 2. NOTES Addit. engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/G-5-34 MS note on front pastedown: William Somner's copy [unverified] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Sandys, George. TITLE A relation of a iourney begun An: Dom: 1610. ... a description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of ... Italy, ... EDITION The third edition. PUBLISHER London : Printed [by G. Miller] for Ro. Allot, 1632. DESCRIPTION [4], 309, [1]p., fold. plates : ill., map ; 2. NOTES Author signs dedication. — Engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/G-4-1 Inscription on title page in William Somner's hand: Pretium [trimmed] ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Broughton, Richard, Historian. TITLE The ecclesiasticall historie of Great Britaine deduced by ages, ... from ... our Saviour, unto the happie conuersion of the Saxons, ... Written by Richard Broughton. The first tome. ... the fower hundred first yeares. ... PUBLISHER At Doway : By the widowe of Marke Wyon, 1633. DESCRIPTION [30], 611, [43]p. ; 2. NOTES No more written (BM). CLASSMARK W/D-4-27 Inscription on front free endpaper: WilliamJervispret. 14s. and [William] Somner, exchanged with Mr Jervis for Ben. Johnsons works. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Vossius, Gerardus, Canon. TITLE Gerardi Ioannis Vossii De arte grammatica libri septem. PUBLISHER Amsterdami : Apud Guilielmum Blaeu, 1635. DESCRIPTION 4 pts ; 4. CLASSMARK W/B-2-49 Inscription on title page: Pretium – 10s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Carpenter, Nathanael. TITLE Geographie delineated forth in two bookes, containing the sphericall and topicall parts thereof, by Nathaniel Carpenter ... EDITION The second edition corrected. PUBLISHER Oxford : Printed by John Lichfield, for Henry Cripps, and are to be sold by Henry Curteyne, 1635. DESCRIPTION 2v. (272, 286p.), folding plates, : ill. ; 4. CLASSMARK W/L-2-23 NOTES Bound in 1 vol. Inscription on title page: Pretium — 3s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Prynne, William. TITLE The soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes: Divided into foure parts. ... with an appendix: ... By William Prynne, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed at London for Michael Sparke senior, 1643. DESCRIPTION 5 pts ; 4. NOTES Each of the 4 pts with own tp, signatures and pagination; pt 1 is the 'second edition enlarged' of The treachery and disloyalty of Papists. — Pt 2 printed by J.D. - Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/C-3-2(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium — 6s. 8d. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Laet, Johannes de. TITLE Joannis de Laet notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii de origine gentium americanarum: ... PUBLISHER Amstelodami : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1643. DESCRIPTION 223, [1]p. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/P-4-30(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium — 2s. 6d. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Beka, Johannes de. TITLE Ioannes de Beka ... et Wilhelmus Heda ... De episcopis Ultrajectinis, ... notis ... illustrati ab Arno Buchelio ... Accedunt Lamb. Hortensii Montfortii Secessionum Ultrajectinarum libri ... PUBLISHER Ultrajecti : Ex officina Ioannis a Doorn, 1643 [1642-1643] DESCRIPTION 3pts, fold. plate : ill., map ; 2. NOTES With engr. tp and half-title Historia Ultrajectina. - Errata leaf at end of Beka's work. — Works of Heda and Hortensius each with own tp, dated 1642, the latter with colophon 'ex officina Aegidii Roman'. CLASSMARK W/F-1-1 Inscription on half-title: Pretium — 15s. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Worm, Ole. TITLE Danicorum monumentorum libri sex: e ... tenebris et in Dania ac Norvegia extantibus ... eruti ab Olao Worm. ... PUBLISHER Hafniae : Apud Ioachimum Moltkenium, 1643. DESCRIPTION [24], 526, [16]p., fold. plate : ill. ; 2. NOTES Engr. tp. CLASSMARK W/F-2-36(1) Inscription on title page: Pretium — 11s. 6d. W.S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) England. Laws, statutes, etc. 712-1135. TITLE Archaionomia, sive De priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico, ... Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. ... Accessere in hac nostra ultima editione leges Henrici primi ... editae, ex manuscripto in fisco regis ... PUBLISHER Cantabrigiae : Ex officina Rogeri Daniel. Prostant Londini apud Cornelium Bee, 1644. DESCRIPTION [12], 226, [10]p., fold. plate : map ; 2. NOTES Texts in Anglo-Saxon or Norman-French and/or Latin. — Editor, A. Whelock signs preface. — Also issued in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, Cambridge, 1644. — Found: 1. With red lettering on tp and p. 221 signed 2F3; 2. Without red lettering on tp and p. 221 signed 2E3. — 1st word translit. — Errata leaf at end. CLASSMARK W/H-6-12 NOTES Variant 1 Inscription on first free endpaper: Whatever is here in ye margin of mr Somners hand is in his other volume [i.e. in W/E-6-20(2)] ______________________________ CLASSMARK W/E-6-20(2) Frequent annotations in William Somner's hand ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Digby, Kenelm, Sir. TITLE Two treatises: in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of man's soule, is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of ... soules. PUBLISHER London : Printed for Iohn Williams, 1645. DESCRIPTION [24], 429, [11], 143, [27]p. ; 4. NOTES Author signs dedication. — The second treatise has separate tp and pagination. CLASSMARK W/K-1-22 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 4s. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Browne, Thomas, Sir. TITLE Pseudodoxia epidemica:or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. By Thomas Browne ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by T.H. for Edward Dod, 1646. DESCRIPTION [20], 386p. ; 2. NOTES Licence precedes tp. CLASSMARK W/L-5-48 Inscription on title page: Pretium —7s W. Somners ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Spelman, Henry, Sir. TITLE The larger treatise concerning tithes, long since written and promised by Sir Hen: Spelman ... Together with some other tracts of the same authour, ... Whereto is annexed, An answer to a question of a gentleman of quality, ... also ... comprised, Some animadversions upon ... The countries plea against tithes: ... also, upon the Kentish petition. Published by Jer. Stephens ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by M.F. for Philemon Stephens, 1647. DESCRIPTION [38], 189, [37], 27, [1]p. ; 4. NOTES Contains An apology of the treatise De non temerandis with own tp and signing. — Answer to a question paged and signed separately. CLASSMARK W/L-1-48 Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Gulielmi Somner, ex dono viri honoratissimi D. Rog. Twysdeni, equitis aur. et Baronetti. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Ménage, Gilles. TITLE Les origines de la langue françoise. PUBLISHER A Paris : Chez Augustin Courbé, 1650. DESCRIPTION [16], xxxviii, [2], 845, [28]p. ; 4. NOTES Author signs dedication. CLASSMARK W/H-3-37 Inscription on title page: W.S. pret. 10s. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Casaubon, Méric. TITLE Merici Casauboni, ... De quatuor linguis commentationis, pars prior: ... Hebraica: et, ... Saxonica. PUBLISHER Londini : typis J. Flesher: sumptibus Ric. Mynne, 1650. DESCRIPTION [8], 418, [2], 72, [12]p. ; 8. NOTES No more published. - A 2nd section of pt 1 = W. Somner's Ad verba vetera germanica à Justo Lipsio, Epist. cent III. ad Belgas, Epist. XLIV collecta: notae. CLASSMARK W2/X-3-12 Annotated in William Somner's hand ================================================================================= AUTHOR(S) Ware, James, Sir. TITLE De Hibernia & antiquitatibus ejus, disquisitiones. ... Unà cum formâ imperii eorum, ... authore Jacobo Waraeo ... PUBLISHER Londini : Typis J. Grismond, impensis Jo. Crook & Thomae Heath, 1654. DESCRIPTION [14], 253, [1]p. : ill. ; 8. CLASSMARK W/L-1-39 Inscription on title page: Pretium — 2s. W. S. ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Kilburne, Richard. TITLE A topographie, or survey of the county of Kent. ... By Richard Kilburne ... PUBLISHER London : printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659. DESCRIPTION [8], 422, [12] p., plate ; 4. NOTES Frontispiece. CLASSMARK W2/Q-13-15 Inscription on verso preceding frontispiece: Guilielmi Somneri ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Fuller, Thomas, Prebendary. TITLE The history of the worthies of England. Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by J.G., W.L. and W.G., 1662. DESCRIPTION 4 pts ; 2. NOTES Ed., J. Fuller, signs dedication. Pages misnumbered 101-104 CLASSMARK W/G-7-10 NOTES Lacks front. — Catchword p.300, 'Pembroke' MS notes in William Somner's hand in chapter on Kent ================================================================================ AUTHOR(S) Du Moulin, Pierre, the Younger. TITLE A vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant religion in the point of obedience to sovereignes. ... In answer to a Jesuitical libel, entituled Philanax anglicus by Peter Du Moulin, ... PUBLISHER London : Printed by I. Redmayne, for John Crook, 1664. DESCRIPTION [24], 142, [2]p. ; 4. NOTES In response to Sir Henry Ianson. CLASSMARK W/P-3-31 MS note in pencil on front free endpaper (20c.): evidently William Somners copy [this seems unlikely] ================================================================================