Accession number
PML 6124
Creator
Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.
Published
[London] : Imprynted by me (Robert Wyer) dwellynge besyde Charynge Crosse. Ad imprimendum solum, [1548?].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf H8v); date of publication suggested by STC.
"To the Christen Reder" signed: T.B., i.e. Thomas Becon--STC.
Caption title on A8r: The dialoge betwene the penytent synner and satan.
Translated by Becon from Dialogus inter Satanam et peccatorem.
Signatures: A-H⁸.
Woodcuts of St. John on Patmos at end of Becon's preface (leaf A7v) and colophon (leaf H8v).
"To the Christen Reder" signed: T.B., i.e. Thomas Becon--STC.
Caption title on A8r: The dialoge betwene the penytent synner and satan.
Translated by Becon from Dialogus inter Satanam et peccatorem.
Signatures: A-H⁸.
Woodcuts of St. John on Patmos at end of Becon's preface (leaf A7v) and colophon (leaf H8v).
Description
64 unnumbered leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 14 x 9 cm (8vo)
Provenance
[Richard Farmer (1735-1797) -- perhaps Pembroke College copy, no inscription in PML copy;] Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), "/c.&p./" inscription (front fly leaf recto); his sales, 4 Dec 1721-4 March 1734; Joseph Ames (1689-1759), "perfect" inscription (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Langford, 5 May 1760; John Ratcliffe (1707-1776); his sale, Christie's, 27 March 1776, lot 845 (to "WH"? -- William Herbert?; collection sold by Isaac Herbert in 1795 and 1796, by auction 10 March 1796 and 21 Nov 1798) for 3s; Rev. John Brand (1744-1806); Bibliotheca Brandiana sale, Stewart, 6 May 1807, lot 6124; Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp (second fly leaf recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part IX, Sotheby's, 11 April 1836, lot 240, to Thorpe for £1.1.0; unidentified inscription: "WA. 378.," 18th/19th century (front fly leaf verso); S. Leeson, 19th-century signature (title page); James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco (typical of Herbert).
Classification
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