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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Rerum in Ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis & periculosis his temporibus euenerunt : maximarumq[ue] per Europam persecutionum, ac sanctorum Dei martyrum, caeterarumq[ue] rerum si quae insignioris exemplisint, digesti per regna & nationes commentarii : pars prima in qua primùm de rebus per Anliam & Scotiam gestis ... / autore Ioanne Foxo Anglo.

Accession number
PML 5524
Creator
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Published
Basileae : Per Nicolaum Brylingerum, et Ioannem Oporinum, 1559.
Notes
An early Latin version of what Foxe expanded in English as his Actes and monuments.
Foxe never wrote the intended 2nd part, which was to cover continental martyrs of recent times; done finally by Heinrich Pantaleon and published in 1563 (Mozley, J.F. John Foxe and his book, 1940?).
Numerous errors in pagination, including the repetition of 501- 502 twice.
First ed. of "Book of martyrs."
PML copy formerly recorded as shelved at WR W 03 C.
Description
[14], 732 [i.e. 736], [2] p. (last 2 blank) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Binding
Old calf, in brown morocco case.
Classification
Department