The pageant of popes, contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of grace 1555. deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes ... Written in Latin by Maister Bale, and now Englished with sondrye additions by I. S[tudley].

Accession number

PML 1809

Creator

Bale, John, 1495-1563.

Published

[London, Imprinted by T. Marshe] 1574.

Notes

Translated by John Studley from Bale's Acta Romanorum Pontificum containing the lives of the Popes from St. Peter to Paul IV (1555).
Black letter.
Translation of: Acta romanorum pontivicvm.
First edition.
Signatures: *a-*e⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Bb⁸; folio.

Description

[20], 198 (i.e. 197), [2] leaves. ; 20 cm

Provenance

From the A.W. Griswold sale, Dec. 1880

Binding

Brown morocco.

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The pageant of popes, contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of grace 1555. deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes ... Written in Latin by Maister Bale, and now Englished with sondrye additions by I. S[tudley].