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A COMPENDIUM OF PROTESTANT TEXTS, in Middle English with some Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, [England, 16th century, after 1553]
c.190 x 140 to c.200 x 150 mm (on batches of paper of variable sizes). i (vellum) + 121 leaves, APPARENTLY COMPLETE (occasional worming, some marginal staining and fraying). 19th-century brown polished leather, tooled in blind and gilt.
PROVENANCE:
(1) Apparently copied in part from a work published in [1553] (f.121). (2) JOSEPH BROOKS YATES: a loosely inserted clipping from a journal containing an article on the Anabaptists has his name and address on the reverse. (3) ALLAN HEYWOOD BRIGHT: bookplate.
CONTENT:
Table of contents, listing about 30 items, f.1v; ‘The sermon of S. Ciprian, Of Mortalyte of Man’ ff.2-15; ‘The ruyles of a Christiane lyfe made by John Pycus the elder Erle of Myrandula' (i.e. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 1463-94) ff.15-17; a sermon on contrition ff.18r-26v; translations of Erasmus on Gospel passages ff.28-29v; ‘The difference bytwixe true religion & counterfeytyd’, beginning ‘The Romish bishop had clean subverted the true interpretation of Christes Gopell […]’, referring to Henry VIII as ‘a newe Ezechias […] to confound all Idolles […] to root up all counterfeytid religions and to restore the true religion […]’ f.30r-v; Sermons on Mark and Luke, at least partly from Erasmus ff.31-44v; a sermon by St Augustine ff.45-46; ‘The force or strength of that cruell lyone against that most mighty lyon of the trybe of Juda’ ff.46v-52; ‘Of prayer and howe we owght to praye’ followed by prayers and sermons on the Name of Jesus, followed by a note ‘The translator of this sermon dothe humbly submytt hymselfe to all suche as be lernyd in the Catholyke Churche of God to correct & amend wher soo ever they shall think it necessary.’ ff.53-64v; texts on patience, reading, meditation, charity, the catechism ff.65-72v; an exhortation, consolation and meditation against the fear of death ff.73-79v; a text ending ‘[…] to pray for the kyngs most excellent maiestye for his most graciowse setting furth & publishing of Erasmus Paraphrases upon the Newest Testament in our mothers tongue in Englysh.’ ff.80v-81; further gospel texts, largely from Erasmus ff.81v-95v; ‘A sermon made at Maydston the first Sonday in Lente […] MDlii in the presence of […] Thomas Archbishop of Canterburye […] By Mr Thomas Cole [d.1571] Scolmaster there […]’, ending ‘Anno domini M.CCCCC. L.iij [i.e. the date the sermon was published] / Anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti. Quinto [i.e. 1551-2, presumably the date the sermon was preached]’ ff.96-120.
A FASCINATING AND ECLECTIC COMPENDIUM OF LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH RELIGIOUS TEXTS, ranging from sermons on and from Erasmus and Augustine, to texts on meditation, charity and the catechism.
c.190 x 140 to c.200 x 150 mm (on batches of paper of variable sizes). i (vellum) + 121 leaves, APPARENTLY COMPLETE (occasional worming, some marginal staining and fraying). 19th-century brown polished leather, tooled in blind and gilt.
PROVENANCE:
(1) Apparently copied in part from a work published in [1553] (f.121). (2) JOSEPH BROOKS YATES: a loosely inserted clipping from a journal containing an article on the Anabaptists has his name and address on the reverse. (3) ALLAN HEYWOOD BRIGHT: bookplate.
CONTENT:
Table of contents, listing about 30 items, f.1v; ‘The sermon of S. Ciprian, Of Mortalyte of Man’ ff.2-15; ‘The ruyles of a Christiane lyfe made by John Pycus the elder Erle of Myrandula' (i.e. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 1463-94) ff.15-17; a sermon on contrition ff.18r-26v; translations of Erasmus on Gospel passages ff.28-29v; ‘The difference bytwixe true religion & counterfeytyd’, beginning ‘The Romish bishop had clean subverted the true interpretation of Christes Gopell […]’, referring to Henry VIII as ‘a newe Ezechias […] to confound all Idolles […] to root up all counterfeytid religions and to restore the true religion […]’ f.30r-v; Sermons on Mark and Luke, at least partly from Erasmus ff.31-44v; a sermon by St Augustine ff.45-46; ‘The force or strength of that cruell lyone against that most mighty lyon of the trybe of Juda’ ff.46v-52; ‘Of prayer and howe we owght to praye’ followed by prayers and sermons on the Name of Jesus, followed by a note ‘The translator of this sermon dothe humbly submytt hymselfe to all suche as be lernyd in the Catholyke Churche of God to correct & amend wher soo ever they shall think it necessary.’ ff.53-64v; texts on patience, reading, meditation, charity, the catechism ff.65-72v; an exhortation, consolation and meditation against the fear of death ff.73-79v; a text ending ‘[…] to pray for the kyngs most excellent maiestye for his most graciowse setting furth & publishing of Erasmus Paraphrases upon the Newest Testament in our mothers tongue in Englysh.’ ff.80v-81; further gospel texts, largely from Erasmus ff.81v-95v; ‘A sermon made at Maydston the first Sonday in Lente […] MDlii in the presence of […] Thomas Archbishop of Canterburye […] By Mr Thomas Cole [d.1571] Scolmaster there […]’, ending ‘Anno domini M.CCCCC. L.iij [i.e. the date the sermon was published] / Anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti. Quinto [i.e. 1551-2, presumably the date the sermon was preached]’ ff.96-120.
A FASCINATING AND ECLECTIC COMPENDIUM OF LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH RELIGIOUS TEXTS, ranging from sermons on and from Erasmus and Augustine, to texts on meditation, charity and the catechism.
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