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A parallel or briefe comparison of the liturgie with the mass-book, the breviarie, the ceremoniall, and other Romish ritualls. Wherein is clearly and shortly demonstrated, not onely that the liturgie is taken for the most part word by word out of these antichristian writts; but also that not one of the most abominable passages of the masse can in reason be refused by any who cordially imbrace the liturgie as now it stands ... By R.B.K. ...

Accession number
PML 5458
Creator
Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.
Published
London, Printed by T. Paine, 1641.
Credit line
Purchased in 1906.
Description
6 p.l., 95 p. 18 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript notes on title page, including "penned by a Scot[?] to which is an ex[?] preface," mostly trimmed or illegible. Inscription: St. Albans '05 411, early 20th century (front pastedown) and "of Rodd," 19th century (front fly leaf).
Provenance
Philip Bliss, note that not in Bodleian catalogue of 1843 (fly leaf); British Museum, duplicate sale stamp, 1787; C.J. Steward, bookseller's ticket (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Binding
Half calf with cloth sides.
Classification
Book
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Department
Printed Books