{"title":"Bibles \u0026 Theology 2026 | Catalogue","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeare delighted to present our latest catalogue from Early English \u0026amp; Philosophy specialist Oliver Yarwood. Find rare works of theology and sacred texts dating from the 16th to 20th century. To view a PDF of the catalogue please \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/Bibles_Theology_2026.pdf?v=1788860742\" title=\"Bibles \u0026amp; Theology Catalogue 2026\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCLICK HERE\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"holy-bible-fine-binding-thomas-baskett-london-1751-104192","title":"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003efrom the library of the Duke of Newcastle\u003c\/h4\u003eA fine copy of this rare bible with superb provenance. 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The press was initially established to promote Christianity in the Near East, so they focused on translations of Christian texts in Arabic and Syriac. This Bible translation was edited by the renowned orientalist Giovanni Battista Raimondi (1536-1614), whose extensive travels around the Middle East had given him a comprehensive knowledge of Arabic, Armenian, Syriac and Hebrew languages. He and the French engraver Robert Granjon, who is responsible for the elegant Arabic typography of the press, formed a formidable team and together created a method for publishing texts in Arabic that 'bettered all previous attempts [to print in Arabic] in Europe, and would remain unsurpassed long after the press had closed' (Boogert, \u003cem\u003eMedici Oriental Press, Rome 1584-1614\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo varying editions of this work were published in very quick succession: there is the Arabic-only text (which has some Latin on the title page and in the colophon only) which bears the date 1590 on the title page and 1591 in the colophon, and then there is an Arabic-Latin edition with interlinear translation to Latin throughout which was printed with the date 1591 on the title page. 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The work was printed at the bequest of the British and Foreign Bible Society, at the suggestion of the Syrian Archbishop of Jerusalem (Darlow and Moule, 1666). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Watts was the printer for the University of Cambridge between 1802 and 1809, before setting up his own printing workshop in Hertfordshire until 1816, when he moved to Temple Bar in London where he set up the Oriental-Type Foundry. During this period at Temple Bar Watts became known as the cutter and founder of his own oriental types, amassing an impressive collection for his press and making him the printer of choice for oriental language translations for the Bible Society, Church Missionary Society, Prayer Book Society and Homily Society among others. 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'His discussion of Eucharistic theory became the first Old English text to be printed when it was issued by Parker in 1566 and it was cited repeatedly in religious controversy down to the nineteenth century; but Parker rejected as an interpolation the two miracle stories with which Ælfric had carefully balanced his more figurative view of the eucharist' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition; 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm); parallel text in Old English and 'Modern English', engraved frontispiece, vignette title, signature clipped from top-margin, further vignette illustrations and engraved initials, the odd MS correction in pen, textblock slightly toned with occasional spotting; modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, red morocco lettering-piece to spine, marbled edges, very good; [10], lx, [2], 44, [4], 11, [3], 49, [7]pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC T86163; Lancaster \u0026amp; Maslen D132.","brand":"AELFRIC, Abbot of Eynsham; ELSTOB, Elizabeth (translator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444889919863,"sku":"123894","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123894_01.jpg?v=1788944099"},{"product_id":"bishops-holie-bible-london-1568-124387","title":"The. holie. 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The translation was intended to counter the Calvinist influence of the Geneva Bible, which had come to prominence following the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 and the return shortly thereafter of the Marian exile community into England, and supersede the earlier Great Bible as the official authorised version of the scriptures in the Church of England. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text mainly follows that of the 1539 Great Bible, but both Hebrew and Greek originals were consulted, as well as the Geneva version. At least eleven bishops were involved in the revision, with Parker himself contributing the lion's share of the work, and the whole was completed by September 1568. 'In April 1571 the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury ordered that copies of this edition should be placed in every cathedral, and as far as possible in every church; and enjoined every ecclesiastical dignitary to exhibit a copy in a prominent place in his house for the use of his servants and guests' (Darlow \u0026amp; Moule). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Whitgift became Archbishop in 1583 he attempted, unsuccessfully, to enforce the sole use of the Bishop's Bible in churches and chapels across England. 'The Bishops' Bible was a success in that it replaced the Great Bible (last reprinted in 1569) in churches, to the exclusion of the Geneva version. But the latter continued to be read in Protestant homes and became the foundation of the Authorized Version' (ODNB). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe woodcut illustrations were mostly copied from designs by the Nuremberg artist Virgil Solis (1514-1562) for a picture series\u003cem\u003e Biblische Figuren des Alten and Neuen Testaments\u003c\/em\u003e that was first published in Frankfurt in 1560. The three engraved portraits depict Queen Elizabeth, her favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the Secretary of State Sir William Cecil, and are attributed to Flemish artist Franciscus Hogenberg (1535-1590). 'While title-page portraits of the monarch were an established feature of English Bibles, contemporary portraits within the text were a startling departure. The engravings of Dudley and Cecil, prominently placed at the beginning of Parts 2 and 3 respectively, flatter by association with the immediately following books. Dudley, portrayed in armor, mirrors the warrior-hero Joshua. Cecil is position as a new David at the head of Psalms with an open book in one hand, other other grasping the large initials B of the psalm's opening line, \"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the ungodly\"' (Luborsky \u0026amp; Ingram).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is also sometimes known as the 'Treacle Bible' for the rendering of 'balm' as 'triacle' in Jeremiah 8:22.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lovely example, with early annotations including a note in pen to the foot of the first book of Chronicles dated '1590' with a 19th-century transcription on tipped-in blue paper:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As thou shalt understand oute of this testamente the tru godlynes and the salvasion of ouer soules both by hearing of it and laying up as a storehouse in the harte. With a true and sinsear loue and so take up the crose of Christe Jesus and folowe hime, that is to suffer afflictiones and fornes and scurges as Crist did when he suffered afflicksiones for ouer sines. 1590'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a further note in the same hand to the second book of Esdras.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, five parts in 1 vol.; large folio (40.5 x 29 cm); black letters, text in double columns in 57 lines, calendar printed in red and black, general title with xylographic word panel in woodcut architectural border and an engraved medallion portrait of Queen Elizabeth, the royal arms and allegorical figures, 2 further engraved portraits, comprising: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (to the divisional title of Part 2), and Sir William Cecil (to the recto of A2 in Part 3), all attributed to Franciscus Hogenberg, woodcut New Testament Title, the text further illustrated with 131 narrative woodcuts (of 133, missing those on E2-3 in Part 1 which are lacking in this copy) after Virgil Solis, 5 woodcut maps and numerous diagrams, woodcut printers device to verso of final f., contemporary annotations in pen including note dated '1590' to recto of Q8 in Part 2 with 19th-century transcription on blue paper tipped-in at fore-edge, further note in same hand to foot of X3 recto also in Part 2, general title trimmed and mounted in the 18th-century with calligraphic dated ownership inscription in pen to verso, some early underlining and marginalia in pen throughout, tear to head of E6-7 in Part 1 repaired with glue with resultant residue to head of E7, pen marginalia to Part 1 K6, smoke damage to lower corner of N4-5 of same part, paper brittle with tear repaired in archival tape, small hole with loss of text to O6 also in Part 1, dampstaining to final 2ff causing minor loss to text, both ff with early paper repairs at gutter margin, as mentioned lacking ff E2-3 in Part 1 (numbered XXXXIV-V) comprising final chapter of Genesis and opening chapter of Exodus, lacking final blank f., otherwise complete with some ff possibly supplied form other copies; 20th-century gilt-panelled calf, the centre of the covers with jewelled cross formed of red, green and purple morocco onlays, modern endpapers, minor wear, very good; collation: A-Q\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e[-E\u003csup\u003e2-3\u003c\/sup\u003e], A-Y\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e Z\u003csup\u003e10\u003c\/sup\u003e, A-E\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e F\u003csup\u003e6 \u003c\/sup\u003eG-Z\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e 2A\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e 2B\u003csup\u003e12\u003c\/sup\u003e, A-O\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e P\u003csup\u003e6\u003c\/sup\u003e, A-T\u003csup\u003e8\u003c\/sup\u003e V\u003csup\u003e5\u003c\/sup\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC S122070; STC 2099; Herbert 125; DM 89; Luborsky \u0026amp; Ingram B:2099.","brand":"[BISHOP'S BIBLE]; HOGENBERG, Franciscus \u0026 SOLIS, Virgil (illustrators).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444889952631,"sku":"124387","price":57500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124387_01.jpg?v=1788944178"},{"product_id":"blaise-pascal-thoughts-religion-london-1704-120624","title":"[Pensées].","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003efirst edition of the second English translation\u003c\/h4\u003eThe first edition of this English-language translation of French polymath Blaise Pascal's (1623-1662) \u003cem\u003ePensées\u003c\/em\u003e, the second English language edition overall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese fragments are all that survive of this vast apology for Christianity conceived of by Pascal several years prior to his death in 1662. They represent a thorough investigation into all aspects of human nature, explaining the 'vicissitudes of human experience entirely in terms of faith and revelation, the one justifying the other' (PMM). Their publication was undertaken by a group of leading Jansenists at the behest of Pascal's nephew, Etienne Perier and his family, with text altered as a result of ecclesiastical censorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition of the second English translation; 8vo (19 x 12 cm); text in English, continuous despite erratic pagination, ownership inscription in pen to title upper-margin, later 18th\/19th-century annotations in pen to margins and some underlining, bookbinder's ticket to front pastedown, horizontal tear to final f. 2C4 repaired to verso, the odd mark, otherwise internally clean; 19th-century purple crushed morocco by Galwey \u0026amp; Co. of Dublin, pine lettered and tooled n gilt, all edges gilt, spine very slightly faded, covers lightly marked, very good or better; [2], lviii, [12], 352, 361-376, 369-392pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC T144329; Bowyer ledgers D49; cf.PMM 152.","brand":"PASCAL, Blaise; KENNETT, Basil (translator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444890182007,"sku":"120624","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/120624_01.jpg?v=1788944178"},{"product_id":"cardinal-john-henry-newman-collection-1840-1909-120266","title":"[A Collection of Seventeen Works by or about Cardinal John Henry Newman].","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eincludes author's presentation copy of \u003cem\u003eVerses on Various Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003eA fantastic collection of 17 works by or about Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), including an author's presentation copy of his \u003cem\u003eVerses on Various Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e, his very rare Discourses on the Scope and \u003cem\u003eNature of University Education\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous pamphlets from or on \u003cem\u003eThe Tracts for the Times \u003c\/em\u003eseries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprising in full:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. [NEWMAN, John Henry], \u003cem\u003eVerses on Various Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e, (London, Burns, Oates, \u0026amp; Co., 1869. Third edition, contemporary tree calf, rubbed with slight loss to spine, joints split but holding, inscribed 'To E. Ryley Esq. with the kind regards of the author, Jan[uar]y 21. 1875'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. NEWMAN, John Henry,\u003cem\u003e Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin\u003c\/em\u003e, (Dublin, James Duffy, 1852). First edition, publisher's cloth, rebacked with the original spine and paper label laid down, later endpapers, very rare with OCLC recording less than 18 institutional holdings worldwide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003cem\u003eSpeech of His Eminence Cardinal Newman on the reception of the 'Bigilietto' at Cardinal Howard's Palace in Rome on the 12th of May 1879. With the address of the English-speaking Catholics in Rome and His Eminence's reply to it, at the English College on the 14th of May 1879\u003c\/em\u003e, (Rome, Libreria Spithöver, 1879).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eThe Nature and Characteristics of Literature. A Lecture delivered before the faculty of philosophy and letters, in the Catholic University\u003c\/em\u003e, (Dublin, Printed by John F. Fowler, 1858). First edition, contemporary limp cloth, very rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. NEWMAN, Rev. J.H., \u003cem\u003eTract XC. On Certain Passages in the XXXIX Articles... with a historical prefaced by the Rev. E.B. Pusey, D.D., and Catholic subscription to the XXXIX Articles considered in reference to tract XC. by the Rev. John Keble, M.A. 1841\u003c\/em\u003e, (Oxford, Sold by John Henry and James Parker, 1865). First edition, original paper wrappers, rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. VAUGHAN, Cardinal Archbishop Herbert, \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Bull 'Apostolicae Curae' a letter on Anglican Orders by the Cardinal Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster\u003c\/em\u003e, (London, Longmans, Green, and C., 1898). Second edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eApologia Pro Vita Sua\u003c\/em\u003e... bound with \u003cem\u003eMr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman: a correspondence on the question whether Dr. Newman teaches that truth is no virtue?\u003c\/em\u003e (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864). First editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eA letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on occasion of no. 90, in the series called The Tracts for the Times,\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1841). First edition, stab-sewn as issue, pencil notes to title, from the Winchester Collection of Pamphlets, scarce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eA letter addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk on occasion of the Mr. Gladstone's recent expostulation\u003c\/em\u003e, (London, B.M. Pickering, 1875). First edition, 12th thousand, publisher's wrappers, rear wrapper detached, from the Winchester Collection of Pamphlets, scarce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. JORDAN, Rev. J. \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis Come, being remarks on Mr. Newman's letter to Dr. Jelf, and on Tract for the Times, no. 90\u003c\/em\u003e, (Oxford, Printed and published by J.L. Wheeler, 1841). First edition, stab-sewn as issue, foxed, pencil notes to title, from the Winchester Collection of Pamphlets, rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. \u003cem\u003eNew and strange doctrines extracted from the writings of Mr. Newman and his friends, in a letter to the Rev. W.F. Hook, D.D\u003c\/em\u003e., (Oxford, Printed by W. Baxter, 1841). First edition, stab-sewn as issue, pencil notes to title, from the Winchester Collection of Pamphlets, rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. WISEMAN, N. Bishop of Melipotamus, \u003cem\u003eA letter respectfully addressed to the Rev. J. H. Newman, upon some passages in his letter to the Rev. Dr. Jelf,\u003c\/em\u003e (London, Charles Dolman, 1841). First edition, stab-sewn as issue, pencil notes to title, from the Winchester Collection of Pamphlets, scarce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. \u003cem\u003eTracts for the Times, Catena Patrum. No. I\u003c\/em\u003e., (London, Printed for J.G.F. \u0026amp; J. Rivington, 1841). Fifth edition, stab-sewn as issued.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. \u003cem\u003eTracts for the Times, Catena Patrum. No. II\u003c\/em\u003e., (London, Printed for J.G.F. \u0026amp; J. Rivington, 1840). Fourth edition, stab-sewn as issued.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. 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He published an edition of Horace in 1762; the success of a second edition (1770) encouraged him to issue a series of editions of Latin authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bold quality of Baskerville's print derived from his use of a highly glossed paper and a truly black ink that he had invented. His typography was much criticised in England, and after his death his types were purchased by the French dramatist Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Their subsequent history is uncertain but in 1917 the surviving punches and matrices were recognised, and in 1953 they were presented to the University of Cambridge. Baskerville type has been revived, its clarity and balance making it a good type for continuous reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, first state, with list of subscribers ending in 'Winwood'; pulpit folio (48.5 x 33.5 cm); xylographic title, ownership stamp to title verso, bookplates to front pastedown and free endpaper recto, inserted f. at front free endpapers containing MS family register, loose transcript of 'A Letter from John Baskerville', occasional minor spotting, later endpapers; contemporary red morocco, covers with floral girl border and corner-pieces, gilt spine in 8 compartments, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces to 2nd and 7th compartments, skilfully rebacked preserving the original spine which has been laid-down, all edges gilt, slightly rubbed and abraded, a very good example.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC T93106; Herbert 1146; DM 857.","brand":"BASKERVILLE, John (printer).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444893393271,"sku":"124319","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124319_01_f2f1a306-c8f6-4f14-a243-ab78b8082ce4.jpg?v=1788944402"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-london-1648-124312","title":"The Holy Bible","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eEnglish Restoration binding with silver furniture\u003c\/h4\u003eThe King James Version, splendidly preserved in an English Restoration binding of gilt panelled dark brown morocco furnished in silver with engraved centrepieces bearing the monogram 'AA' and the armorial device of three mullets or six points pierces, cornerpieces, and clasps in full working order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding 'furniture' originally served a functional purpose, with bosses and cornerpieces helping to protect the covers from wear and tear, and clasps employed to prevent the parchment leaves of manuscript books from warping. The advent of paper and the movement away from wood to pasteboard had largely made these features redundant by the end of the seventeenth century. Instead, as here, metalwork survived as a decorative feature which enhanced the binding of important devotional works, whilst also helping to keep these texts, which were more likely to be carried about, secure (see David Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800, pp26-30).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur example is bound without the Apocrypha. Darlow and Moule note that the Apocrypha in their example (no. 469) is possibly supplied from another edition, and that a different copy is lacking the Apocrypha.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e4to (24 x 18 cm); without the Apocrypha, engraved general title, slightly cropped at foot of engraved area with the sculpture's signature just cut through and re-margined, later inscriptions in pen to margins, letterpress NT title, textblock toned with some dampstaining to gutter margin of first 6 quires, occasional spotting; 17th-century dark brown goatskin, the covers panelled in gilt with filets and a roll, between the panels tooled in blind with fern fronds, adorned with engraved-silver centre and cornerpieces and clasps in full working order, the upper centrepiece with monogram 'AA', the lower with engraved armorial device of three mullets of six points all pierced within a lozenge border, rebacked, preserving the original gilt spine which has been laid down, all edges gilt, the lower spine-side cornerpiece of the lower board loose from fitting, a little rubbed, overall an excellent example.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC R37304; Herbert 605; DM 469; Wing B2225A.","brand":"[KING JAMES VERSION]; STERNHOLD \u0026 HOPKINS (Psalms).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444893426039,"sku":"124312","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124312_01.jpg?v=1788944410"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-speed-genealogies-london-1617-124155","title":"The Holy Bible,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ethe third distinct folio King James\u003c\/h4\u003eThe third distinct folio edition of the King James Bible, printed in large black-letter type, and bound with John Speed's (1552-1629)\u003cem\u003e Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures\u003c\/em\u003e, including his acclaimed double-page map of Canaan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen James VI of Scotland ascended to the English throne in 1603, he found the country a place of religious discord symbolised by the use of two distinct translations of the Bible. The Bishops' Bible was the official voice of the Church while the Geneva Bible, more Calvinist in tone with extensive study notes and commentary, was preferred by the general populace and the growing Puritan sect. James was keen to heal these divisions and to wean his people off the Geneva which, he felt, encouraged sedition and republicanism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this end the King convened the Hampton Court Conference in 1604 where the new English version was conceived. The new, authorised translation, was not initially a success: the Geneva Bible remained prevalent until at least 1644, when the last known seventeenth-century edition was brought to the press. Nevertheless, overtime it grew in popularity, and has widely come to be seen as a towering achievement in the history of English prose, contributing more idioms to our language than many other single source, including Shakespeare, with examples ranging from \u003cem\u003efeet of clay\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003ereap the whirlwind\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThird distinct folio edition; folio (41.5 x 28.5 cm); woodcut general and New Testament titles, the former laid down and the latter supplied from a different copy with 18th-century inscriptions in pen to verso, woodcut initials, decorative head and tailpieces, calendar printed in red and black, three further supplied ff all in the Speed Genealogies comprising A2 (woodcut of Adam and Eve) and [D1-2] (forming the map of Canaan), old paper repairs to margins of 3K3-4, 3O3-4 and final 4 ff in quire 6D, light staining to lower corners of gathering 2F-2H, more significant dampstaining to final three quires, but overall a remarkably well-preserved and clean example; contemporary blind-panelled calf, expertly rebacked, corners and extremities repaired, very good; foliation: A\u003csup\u003e4\u003c\/sup\u003e B\u003csup\u003e4 \u003c\/sup\u003eC\u003csup\u003e6\u003c\/sup\u003e D4 (A-C\u003csup\u003e6\u003c\/sup\u003e [D\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e]) A-6D\u003csup\u003e6\u003c\/sup\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC S122467; Herbert 353; DM 273.","brand":"[THIRD FOLIO KING JAMES]; SPEED, John (Genealogies).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444893458807,"sku":"124155","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124155_01_670683d2-96a2-4cf1-995b-312a4758762b.jpg?v=1788944412"},{"product_id":"holy-bible-speed-sternhold-hopkins-london-1633-124311","title":"The Holy Bible","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003econtemporary clasped calf with gilt lozenge centrepieces\u003c\/h4\u003eA very well preserved folio edition of the King James Bible, complete in the original clasped calfskin binding with Speed's \u003cem\u003eGenealogies\u003c\/em\u003e, including his double-page engraved map of Canaan, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Common Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e and Sternhold \u0026amp; Hopkins' \u003cem\u003ePsalmes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe elaborate title border is that engraved by William Hole (d.1624), which had been used before in the folio Geneva Bible of 1607. 'As a copperplate-engraver Hole remained a specialist in engraving maps, music, and lettering... and he stands at the head of the seventeenth-century tradition of engravers who worked for writing-masters. He engraved the plates to Martin Billingsley's \u003cem\u003eThe Pens Excellencie, or, The Secretaries Delighte \u003c\/em\u003eof 1618, the first important English engraved copybook, dedicated to Charles as Prince of Wales, and he was also responsible for the first engraved plates of music made outside Italy: the famous \u003cem\u003eParthenia\u003c\/em\u003e of 1612–13 which contained music by William Byrd, John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons, and Angelo Notari's\u003cem\u003e Prime musiche nuove\u003c\/em\u003e of 1613' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur example a variant with the date in the imprint of the engraved general title altered on the plate to read '1633'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour works in 1 vol.; folio (35.5 x 23.5 cm); engraved general title signed 'Guilielmus Hole', partially burnished out as noted by ESTC, with date in imprint altered to read '1633' on the plate, engraved NT title dated 1632, full-page woodcut illustration of Adam \u0026amp; Eve to verso of A10 (final f. of preliminaries, note ff A7-8 with incorrect printed signatures as A6-7), woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, further illustrated with Speed's genealogies and double-page map of Canaan, occasional toning, final f. of Psalmes laid down, title of Common Prayer affixed via stub, Speed map with loss to central portion of design with final f. reinforced to verso at gutter margin and tape repair to margin, A1 of Old Testament with closed tear crudely repaired, lower margin of Adam \u0026amp; Eve woodcut with tape repair not affecting design, some further closed repairs throughout, later endpapers; contemporary calf, gilt lozenge device to covers bisecting the initials 'I' and 'E', gilt faded, upper brass clasp in working order, remnants of the lower clasp, joints and corners expertly restored, very good.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC S122379 (variant); Herbert 466; DM 359.","brand":"[KING JAMES VERSION]; SPEED, John (Genealogies); STERNHOLD \u0026 HOPKINS (Psalms).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444894769527,"sku":"124311","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124311_01.jpg?v=1788944413"},{"product_id":"john-ponet-catechismus-brevis-christianae-london-1553-124098","title":"Catechismus brevis Chistianae disciplinae summam continens,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003efirst appearance of Edward VI's Catechism and Forty-Two Articles\u003c\/h4\u003eThe defining doctrinal statement of the Edwardian Reformation, and the basis of Anglican doctrine today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of four variant issues of the rare first publication of Edward VI's Latin catechism and the Forty-Two Articles agreed at the Synod of London in 1552. It was in this document that Calvinist thought reached the zenith of its influence over the doctrinal direction of the Church of England. Yet, the untimely death of Edward and the accession of his Roman Catholic sister Mary the following year put rest to their practical introduction in England until the reign of Elizabeth I, when in revised form the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion were incorporated in 1571 into the Book of Common Prayer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text of the Catechism has long been attributed to the theologian Edward Ponet (d.1556), having been identified as the author by Sir John Cheke in a letter to Heinrich Bullinger dated 7th June, 1553. An English translation was completed and printed by John Day under the title 'A short catechisme, or playne instruction...' the same year. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven by the standards of his contemporaries, Ponet was a man of prodigious learning, being accomplished in Greek, Latin, Italian and German. Little is known of his life prior to his graduation as BA from Queen's College, Cambridge in 1533. The same year he was elected a Fellow of the College and proceeded to MA in 1535 before being ordained as a priest in 1536. He later served as Chaplain to Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, before being nominated Bishop of Rochester in 1550 and Bishop of Winchester the following year, in which capacity he served until his exile following Mary's accession to the throne in 1553.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur example with 9 lines of text in the second paragraph on the title-page, the 'C' in signature 'c.iii' under 'æ' of 'inhæserint' and the last line beginning 'parum', and with the articles in their unnumbered state. The text seemingly does not conform to any extant ESTC collation, being a hybrid of ESTC S120533 (the title-page) and S117405 (with the text ending on the verso of 'i.iv', and a colophon on the recto of 'i.v', but our copy without the 3 terminal blank leaves). Lacking only one leaf of text ('f.i').\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRare. Peter Heylyn, in his \u003cem\u003eCertamen Epistolare\u003c\/em\u003e published in 1659, noted 'this Catechism is so hard to come by, that scarce one scholar in 500 hath ever heard of it; and hardly one in a 1000 hath ever seen it' (see \u003cem\u003eBiblotheca Heberiana\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith important provenance for the pioneering female book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), bearing her armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. 'T.F. Dibdin considered that Currer's collection placed her \"at the head of all female collectors in Europe\" (Reminiscences, 2.949) and that her country house library was, in its day, surpassed only by those of Earl Spencer, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Duke of Buckingham. Seymour De Ricci wrote that she was \"England's earliest female bibliophile\" (De Ricci, 141)' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eCatechismus\u003c\/em\u003e is listed on p.32 \u003cem\u003eA Catalogue of the Library of Miss Currer at Eshton Hall \u003c\/em\u003ecompiled by Robert Triphook in 1820.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition; 8vo (13.5 x 9 cm); 9 lines of text in second paragraph of title-page, 'C' of signature 'C.III' under 'æ' of 'inhæserint' and last line begins 'parum', articles unnumbered, historiated initial 'C' on f. a.ii with contemporary hand colouring in red, lacking leaf 'f.i' and (?) the 3 terminal blank leaves, early MS index in pen to verso of colophon, a few early annotations to title-page, later trimmed close at headline obscuring early ink inscription and causing occasional loss to printed headlines, the odd early pen note and underlining, later prescient note in pen to title verso 'Do not cut this out', small wormhole running through first 3 quires at gutter margin with occasional minor loss to text, early paper repairs to title and final few ff of text, bookplates to front endpapers, lacking blank f.; bound in the early 19th-century in half red roan, marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed with slight shelf lean, very good; [136 (of 138 or 144(?))]pp; foliation: a-e\u003csup\u003eviii \u003c\/sup\u003ef\u003csup\u003eii-viii\u003c\/sup\u003e h\u003csup\u003eviii\u003c\/sup\u003e-i\u003csup\u003ev\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecf. ESTC S120533 \u0026amp; S117405; STC 4808 \u0026amp; 4807; Bibliotheca Heberiana, Part the Seventh, 1079; A Catalogue of the Library of Miss Currer at Eshton Hall, p.32.","brand":"[PONET, John].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444898079095,"sku":"124098","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124098_00.jpg?v=1788944487"},{"product_id":"john-wycliffe-new-testament-london-1810-123941","title":"The New Testament,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eextra illustrated with 38 interleaved woodcuts from the 1877 Biblia Pauperum\u003c\/h4\u003eAn excellent example of the second printing of Wycliffe's (d.1384) New Testament, extra illustrated with 38 interleaved woodcuts taken from an edition of the Biblia Pauperum printed by the Unwin Brothers in 1877 to coincide with the qaudricentennial celebration of the printer William Caxton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese woodcuts are believed to have been printed from blocks dating to the latter half of the fifteenth century (see no. 2008 in \u003cem\u003eHistorical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961\u003c\/em\u003e... revised and expanded by A.S. Herbert).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text is a reprint of John Lewis' edition of Wycliffe's New Testament that was brought out in a limited run of 160 copies in 1731, and marked the first time that Wycliffe's translation appeared in print. Both follow the text of the 'Later Version' of the Wycliffite Bible, which replaced the direct transliteration of the Latin Vulgate of the 'Early Version' for a more sense-by-sense rendering of the text into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to Darlow \u0026amp; Moule the 'text was obtained by Llewis from two MSS., both representing the later Wycliffite version:-(1) an early fifteenth-century MS. belonging to himself, now in the Bodleian (Gough Eccl. top. 5); (2) a MS. written about 1420, belonging to Sir Edw. Dering, and in 1850 the property of W. Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff. (See Forshall and Madden's edition of the complete Bible, 1850, Preface, P. i \u003cem\u003en\u003c\/em\u003e., p. l, and p. lxiv)'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWycliffe was a controversial figure in his own day, blurring the the boundaries between theologian and philosopher, and unwisely becoming embroiled in Court politics of fourteenth-century England. His great attack on the temporal authority of the Church \u003cem\u003eDe civili dominio\u003c\/em\u003e ('On civil dominion') earned the official condemnation of Pope Gregory XI in 1377, and his Eucharistic teachings were condemned by ecclesiastical council in 1382. This would all lead ultimately to his posthumous declaration as a heretic, and the exhumation of his bones in 1428, which were burned, the ashes being scattered into the River Swift. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis legacy nevertheless survived in the Lollard heresy that gripped England in the fifteenth century, and the Hussites of Bohemia, and he would go on to be declared the prophetic 'Morning Star' in the hagiographical biographies of the Protestant Reformation that followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond edition, extra illustrated; large 4to (32 x 24.5 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, offsetting to title, extra illustrated with 38 interleaved woodblock prints and contents sheet from the Biblia Pauperum, probably from the edition printed by Unwin Brothers in 1877, occasional light spotting, hinges repaired at endpapers with cloth; contemporary gilt vellum, skilfully rebacked preserving the original spine which has been laid down, marbled edges, a little soiled and rubbed at extremities, very good.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerbert 1537; DM 1014; (cf.Herbert 1011 \u0026amp; 2008).","brand":"WYCLIFFE, John; BABER, The Rev. Henry Hervey (editor).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444898111863,"sku":"123941","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123941_01.jpg?v=1788944490"},{"product_id":"paolo-sarpi-historie-councel-trent-london-1629-123636","title":"The Historie of the Covncel of Trent.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eRoyal Arms of Charles I\u003c\/h4\u003eThe second appearance in English of Paolo Sarpi's (1552-1623) \u003cem\u003eHistoria del Concilio Tridentino\u003c\/em\u003e, a thinly veiled attacked on the Papal Curia and the failure of the Council to effect a reconciliation with the Protestant movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent example, bound in contemporary gilt-panelled calf with the Royal Arms of the dedicatee King Charles I (1600-1649) to the centre of each cover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixteen varieties of arms have been identified in association with Charles I, this been variant SRA III ('Stuart Royal Arms'), the variant used most exclusively during his reign. Examples can be found on the Guicciardini comprising lot 62 in the Sotheby's Corfield sale, 21st November 1904, and on the Pontanus illustrated as no. 28 of Maggs Bros' \u003cem\u003eBookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1212, Part I\u003c\/em\u003e. For a full discussion see Mirjam Foot, 'Some Bindings for Charles I' in \u003cem\u003eStudies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History, and Bibliography\u003c\/em\u003e, ed. Janssens and Aarts, (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1984), pp95-106.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarpi's history was first published pseudonymously in London in 1619. 'A member of the Servite Order, hated yet never excommunicated by the Papal See, Sarpi was the devoted and honoured servant of the Venetian Republic. Like the author in his lifetime, so in later years his books formed a nucleus of opposition to the papacy of Pius IV. Translated and reprinted over and over again, the masterpiece of \"Father Paul of Venice\", as he was known to generations, is still read' (PMM).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA proponent of the separation of Church and State, Sarpi was prominent amongst the figures involved in the Venetian interdict, a diplomatic quarrel and pamphlet war which broke out between the Republic and Papacy in 1605 to 1607 and resulted in the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice for the next 50 years. The target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt in 1607 which had been fuelled by religious motives, Sarpi withdrew from public life and spent the remainder of his time working on his history prior to his death in 1623.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond edition; folio (34.5 x 22.5 cm); text in English, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, occasional light toning, but overall a lovely clean example complete with the front blank f.; contemporary armorial gilt panelled calf, the Royal Arms blocked in gilt to the centre of both covers bisecting the initials 'A' and 'W', remains of original ties, the covers slightly abraded with slight loss to gilt work of lower cover, joints slightly split with loss to head of spine, corners rubbed, a very good example; [12], 881 [i.e. 879], [17]pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC S116697; cf.PMM 118.","brand":"POLANO, Pietro Soaue (pseud. Paolo Sarpi); BRENT, Nathaniel (translator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444898144631,"sku":"123636","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123636_01.jpg?v=1788944678"},{"product_id":"thomas-kempis-imitatio-christi-london-1677-123340","title":"[Imitatio Christi].","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003econtemporary 'semi-sombre' English Restoration binding\u003c\/h4\u003eA near fine example of an English 'semi-sombre' binding dating from the Restoration of Charles II. The covers have been tooled in blind to a 'cottage-roof' design composed of panels where the goatskin has been ruled with concentric lines and tooled in bind, and alternately left untreated and tooled in gilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimilar examples are exhibited in Howard Nixon's \u003cem\u003eEnglish Restoration Bookbindings\u003c\/em\u003e (see nos 113-116), and as no. 39 of his \u003cem\u003eFive Centuries of English Bookbinding\u003c\/em\u003e, which belongs to a French New Testament owned by Samuel Pepys. As Nixon explains, sombre bindings emerged in the 1670s 'for mourning use and Lenten observance' and were prevalent for the next 50 or so years (see \u003cem\u003eEnglish Restoration Bookbindings\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ep.45). Further examples of this style of binding can be seen in the\u003cem\u003e Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, Volume VI, Bindings\u003c\/em\u003e (see no. 403).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text is an anonymous English translation of Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation \u003cem\u003eDe Imitatione Christi\u003c\/em\u003e, an important work of Christian mysticism forming part of the Late Medieval Devotio Moderna movement which called for religious reform and apostolic renewal. This edition had earlier been printed in a smaller vicesimo-quarto format.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKempis (d.1471) was born in Kempen, in the Diocese of Cologne, but received his education at Deventer, in the Low Countries where he came into contact with the Fratres Vitae Communis, a majority lay confraternity founded by the Dutch deacon Gerard Groot, a leading figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. Members took no irrevocable vows, but lived according to the monastic principles of poverty, obedience and chastity, with all earnings put into a common fund.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving completed his studies, Kempis joined the reformed monastery of the Augustinian Canon Regulars at Mount Saint Agnes, near Zwolle, where he was ordained priest in 1413, later becoming Sub-Prior in 1429. From here he wrote lives of Groot and his associate Florentius Radwyn, and composed the four disparate mystical tracts, together forming the \u003cem\u003eImitation,\u003c\/em\u003e which began to circulate in manuscript in the 1430s. The first printed edition appeared in 1473, and the first English-language translation in 1503 — it has never been out of print since and remains a mainstay in the canon of Western literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e8vo (16.5 x 10 cm); text in English, engraved frontispiece, woodcut headpieces, green morocco bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary black goatskin tooled in gilt and blind to a 'semi-sombre' 'cottage-roof' design, the corners and rectangular centrepiece of both covers with ruled lines and tooled in blind, the other compartments tooled in gilt with tulip and paisley design, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to second compartment, overlaying(?) earlier blind-tooling, all edges gilt, a little rubbed with areas of slight fading, some time varnished, near fine; [42], 326pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC R26293; cf. Howard Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, nos. 113-116, Howard Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, no.39 \u0026amp; Howard Nixon, Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, Volume VI, Bindings, no.403.","brand":"KEMPIS, Thomas à.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57444898636151,"sku":"123340","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123340_01.jpg?v=1788944840"},{"product_id":"vulgate-latin-bible-parchment-england-1260-1270-124923","title":"In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e10 illuminated initials\u003c\/h4\u003eSmall portable Bibles containing the complete Old and New Testaments were one of the greatest achievements of 13th-century book production, transforming the use and ownership of the Bible. This English example was copied by numerous scribes, and decorated in a number of styles. The ten handsome illuminated initials decorate the Minor Prophets, an unusual choice. Textual evidence links it to both the Dominicans and Franciscans. Notable here are the numerous additions that show how this was used, including the contemporary table of introits and Mass lections, and numerous marginal notes from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first portable Bibles may have been copied in Paris at the end of the 1220s or early 1230s. Many of them were products of the commercial booksellers of Paris. English examples of this type of Bible, however, appear at almost the same time, and 13th-century England was an important centre for the production of Bibles, although in smaller numbers than France. However, the text of English 13th-century Bibles is often quite distinct from contemporary Bibles from Paris. Centralised production in Paris resulted in numerous Bibles that share the same text (the text modern scholars call the Paris Bible). In England, a much more diffuse production meant that there is a much greater variety in the text of the Bibles; there is no 'typical' English text. The Psalms have been omitted here. This is fairly common in 13th-century Bibles, and possibly more common in England than elsewhere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Bible does show some influence of the Paris Bible. In particular, the biblical books are arranged according to the 'new' Paris order (the same order used today, with the Gospels followed by the Pauline Epistles rather than by Acts), and the books are divided according to the modern chapters (although as noted above, with many variations, including some that Paul Saenger has identified as English (Saenger, 2013)), and it includes the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe many different scribes who copied this book, and the variety of different styles found in the pen decoration, are certainly of great interest. There are many intriguing bits of evidence that tell us how this Bible was put together. The rubricator for example made fairly frequent errors, confusing prologues and biblical books, and in one case, inserting the wrong running title, calling the book usually known as 2 Ezra in 13th-century Bibles, and 3 Ezra by modern scholars (Stegmüller 94,1) 'Osee' (i.e. the minor prophet, Hosea). A corrector changed it to 'iosias' not the usual name for this book, although it does begin 'Et fecit iosias …' The foliation in Roman numerals is also noteworthy (most books in the Middle Ages do not include page or folio numbers) with numerous mistakes in the series, including large gaps, despite the text being complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen biblical books begin with finely executed illuminated initials by a well-trained, but provincial or idiosyncratic artist, freely interpreting more mainstream initials from commercial centres such as Oxford or Paris; most of the initials are pink or a distinctive mauve shade, with white highlights, infilled with tightly curled vine scrolls that terminate in simple leaves or animal-heads, on contrasting grounds, or on highly polished gold, all heavily edged in black. The 'I' on f. 397v, extends 30-lines, and is infilled with a distinctive geometric lattice-pattern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evidence of the script and decorations supports an origin in the second half of the thirteenth century, probably c.1260-1275. It was used very early in its history in England, and many small details fit best with an origin in England, including the lack of a Psalter, the Interpretation of Hebrew Names copied in three columns, variations in the beginnings of some of the chapters (Saenger, 2013, p. 60, n. 104), and the quire structure (especially the quires of sixteen and twenty leaves, Ruzzier, 2013, p. 116). None of these details by themselves would be an argument for an English origin, but together, they are highly suggestive. Moreover, the main style of the penwork decoration, although unusually exuberant, and perhaps idiosyncratic, and the style of the illuminated initials also suggest England. Evidence of the script, however, is more difficult to interpret. There are numerous hands in the volume, and the rounded bookhands used by some of the scribes suggest they may have been from Southern France. It is worth remembering that Aquitaine was English throughout the thirteenth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A full description with further information on the text and the provenance with a full bibliography is available on request.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e579ll on very thin parchment; early foliation in roman numerals (with errors) top outer corner recto, supplemented by modern foliation in pencil; horizontal catchword centre lower margin in quire 2, traces in quires 12, 16, 18, 19, quires signed at the beginning, very bottom inside corner, in an Arabic numeral, many trimmed (presumably by the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century binder), ruled in lead sometimes with the top two, middle two, and bottom two horizontal lines full across, full-length vertical bounding lines inside, outside, and between the columns, and with an extra set of double rules at the top and bottom of the page (justification 94-90 x 68-64 mm.). Written by many scribes below the top line in very small formal gothic bookhands in two columns (ff. 546-575v, the Interpretation of Hebrew Names in three columns) of 49-45 lines, majuscules within the text stroked with red, red and blue running titles and chapter numbers, occasional red rubrics (often blank spaces for the rubrics remain), one-line alternately red and blue initials, chapters begin with two-line (with extensions up to fifteen lines) alternately red and blue initials with pen decoration in the other colour, approximately sixty-eight 6- to 25-line parted red and blue initials with red and\/or blue pen work, parted initials on f. i and iv verso (opening prologue and Genesis) extend the full-length of the page. With ten illuminated initials, 7-lines high, pink or mauve with white highlights, infilled with pink and blue rinceaux, some terminating with animal heads, on highly polished gold grounds, or on contrasting grounds of dark blue or pink, heavily edged in black, overall in very good condition, f. 1 darkened and repaired in the inner margin, f. 32, modern repair with slight loss of text, f. 490, erasure(?) with some damage to a few lines of text, ff. 539-545, damage from damp top outer corner, f. 544, top outer corner repaired (with loss of text), generous margins but trimmed (some loss at the edges of the added text on ff. 544-545), the ink on some pages has faded or been abraded. Bound in early 19th-century red roan, spine elaborately tooled in gilt and lettered 'Biblia\/Sacra\/M.S.S,' expertly rebacked with old spine laid down, boards with a single gilt rule, speckled edges, with yellow glazed endpapers, lower board and edges lightly scuffed; a very handsome binding, with 20th-century slipcase with paper label to spine lettered in ink and matching chemise. Dimensions 153 x 105 mm.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBranner (Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of St. Louis, 1977); Burke (Heraldic Register, 1850), p. 83; De Hamel (The Book. 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This, the 1570 edition, greatly expanded upon the life of this 'blessed martyr', an expansion that was transmitted to the present work, which contains 478 pages of Tyndale's English prose, including his biblical exegesis, treatises on \u003cem\u003eMammon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Obedience of a Christen Man\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePapisticall Prelate\u003c\/em\u003e, his \u003cem\u003eAnswer to Sir Thomas More\u003c\/em\u003e and others, with an index containing perhaps 1500 entries (see Patrick Collinson, 'William Tyndale and the Course of the English Reformation', \u003cem\u003eReformation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/em\u003e, 1996).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn full, the collection includes all of Tyndale's non-translation prose, including two works of spurious origin: 'A Protestation of the State of Souls Department' and treatise upon 'Signes and Sacramentes'. Frith contributes a further twelve works, and Barnes some fifteen. This was to be the sole edition produced, and Tyndale's works were not reprinted again until the Park Library series in the mid-nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive example, substantially complete (with one of the three woodcut illustrations present; lacking six leaves in total) of this important anthology of the 'principall teachers of thys Church of England' (Preface). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the contemporary London binding of blind-tooled calfskin over wooden boards. The central lozenge incorporating the heads-in-medallions roll tool identified by J. Basil Oldham in English \u003cem\u003eBlind-Stamped Bindings\u003c\/em\u003e as no. 775, and the perimeter border no. 772. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith numerous early annotations in pen, including a distinctive monogrammed stylised dragon device incorporating the initials 'CF' to the verso of leaf D4, with a similar manuscript illustration to the verso of 2Y4 and occasional throughout. Further annotations in Latin to 3H3-4, and English to 3H6. 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