In an attempt to sort out how many Johannes Piscators actually
existed, Ong traces the various references to Piscators in what
is often an amusing, entertaining manner. Ong begins with the
listings found in the British Catalogue of Printed Books in the
Library of the British Museum, the French Catalogue general des
livres imprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale, and the
unpublished catalogue in the Bodleian library at Oxford. The
first catalogue attributes some works to Piscator of Herborn and
others to Piscator of Wittenberg while the second and third
catalogues attribute some works to a Strasburg Piscator and
others to Piscator of Wittenberg (and there is not consistency
between the catalogues about which works belong to which man).
This confusion, based on geography, is not surprising Ong
explains, for "our" Piscator (Ong sometimes refers to him as the
"1546-1625 man") moved around quite a bit, due to the plague and
other factors. It is also complicated by the fact that Piscator
was a common name and the Lat