Accession number
PML 3177
Creator
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.
Published
London, Imprinted by I. Day [1566?]
Notes
John Joscelyn (Josselin) contributed the Preface and other Anglo Saxon pieces - D.N.B.XXX, p. 205.
Folios 19-60 "A sermon of the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and bloud of Christ" - a sermon on Easter Day - Saxon and English on opposite pages.
Folios 61 (62) - 74 (75) "Here followeth the wordes of AElfrike ... taken out of his epistle ... in Liber poenitentialis ..." (4th Book, Chap. 30, concerning the Sacrament of the Bread and Wine) - Saxon and English texts on opposite pages - from the Saxon texts in MSS. in the Worcester and Exeter Cathedral libraries to which is added a ...
An editorial postscript beginning "As the writynges of the fathers ..." signed Matthewe, archbyshop of Canterburye, Thomas, archbyshop of Yorke and others.
Folios 77-87 "The Lordes prayer, the Creede and the x. commaundements in the Saxon and Englishe tounge" - Saxon and English.
Leaf 25 misnumbered 24; beginning with leaf 49-72 (the end of the numbered folios) there are many errors in pagination.
First ed., second issue, with Preface paged and errata corrected - perfect copy.
Folios 19-60 "A sermon of the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and bloud of Christ" - a sermon on Easter Day - Saxon and English on opposite pages.
Folios 61 (62) - 74 (75) "Here followeth the wordes of AElfrike ... taken out of his epistle ... in Liber poenitentialis ..." (4th Book, Chap. 30, concerning the Sacrament of the Bread and Wine) - Saxon and English texts on opposite pages - from the Saxon texts in MSS. in the Worcester and Exeter Cathedral libraries to which is added a ...
An editorial postscript beginning "As the writynges of the fathers ..." signed Matthewe, archbyshop of Canterburye, Thomas, archbyshop of Yorke and others.
Folios 77-87 "The Lordes prayer, the Creede and the x. commaundements in the Saxon and Englishe tounge" - Saxon and English.
Leaf 25 misnumbered 24; beginning with leaf 49-72 (the end of the numbered folios) there are many errors in pagination.
First ed., second issue, with Preface paged and errata corrected - perfect copy.
Description
88 leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Binding
Tan niger
Classification
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Department