a.2.59

Printed. A copy of [James Scudamore], Homer a la mode. A mock poem upon the first and second books of Homer's Iliads (Oxford: printed by H.H. for Ric. Davis, 1664), with fragments of the following publication bound at the front and rear as strengtheners:

Provenance: from the library of Henry Aldrich. The titlepage has the following annotation in Aldrich's hand: 'Liber H. Aldrich [partially expressed in the manner of a monogram] ex Aed: Ch: Alumni / Ex Dono Authoris / Junii 25. 1664 [i.e. in the year of publication]'. The author and donor, James Scudamore, was an exact contemporary of Aldrich's at Westminster School; both men were then admitted to Christ Church, Scudamore matriculating in 1661, Aldrich in 1662. Scudamore graduated BA in 1665; he died the following year. These facts strongly imply that a.2.59 was bound in Oxford in 1664, by a binder who had access to an unwanted or unsold copy of the Tallis/Byrd Cantiones sacrae (1575). It is therefore probably coincidental that these particular binding fragments should appear in a book owned by Aldrich, who subsequently acquired three full sets of the 1575 Cantiones; see the copies at Mus. 962-7(6), Mus. 968-73(7), and Mus. 979-83.

Upright format, 140 x 90 mm. Mid 17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with fillets and ornaments.

Not included in the standard microfilm series.