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The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Accession number
PML 16041
Published
Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.
Notes
"Table of controversies" (9 pages) at end.
For title page, cf. title page borders, by McKerrow & Ferguson, 148.
Text in parallel columns, Rheims version on left in roman letter, Bishops' version on the right, in italics. Annotations follow each chapter.
This is the second edition of Fulke's work, first published in 1589.
Title within ornamental border with date 1574; head and tailpieces; initials.
Description
[42], 914 [i.e. 912], [9] pages ; 34 cm (folio)
Provenance
On leaf A² in a 17th cent. hand: "Bar: Henrie Leigh p.15."
Binding
Contemporary calf, rebacked; the initials B.V. with a mitre between impressed in gold on the upper cover.
Classification
Department