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Libello huic regio hæc insunt / Oratio Ioannis Clerk apud Ro. pon. in exhibitione operis regii. Responsio roman. pont. ad eandem ex tempore facta. Bulla ro. pon. ad regiam maiestatem pro eius operis confirmatione. Summa indulge[n]tiaru[m], libellum ipsum regium legentibus concessarum. Libellus regius aduersus Martinum Lutherum hæresiarchon. Epistola regia ad illustrissimos Saxoniæ duces pia admonitoria.

Accession number
PML 763
Creator
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Published
Apud inclytam urbem Londinum : In aedibus Pynsonianis, An. M.D.XXI. quarto idus Iulij [12 July 1521]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Imprint from colophon of part 2.
In 3 parts. Parts 1 and 3 have no colophon. In part 1 (Libello), the papal bull naming Henry 'fidei defensor' is dated 5 id Oct. 1521, so this part was printed sometime later. Part 2 (Assertio septem sacramentum) is a reissue of STC 13078. Part 3 (Epistola regia) was apparently not written until March 1522, and it seems possible that parts 1 and 2 were made available before part 3 was printed -- STC.
Morgan copy lacking blanks C4, u3, and u4.
Signatures: A-C⁴; [a]⁴ b-u⁴; ²a-b⁴. Leaves C4, u3, u4 and ²b4 are blank.
Title A1; Oratio A2r-B3r; Responsio B3v; Latin poem (by Clerk) B4r; Bulla B4v-C3r; Summa indulgentiarum C3v; Assertio a-u2; Epistola a-b3; b4 blank.
Woodcut borders on the title pages (copied from borders designed by Hans Holbein for Johann Froben in Basel), woodcut initials.
Description
3 parts ; 24 cm (4to)
Provenance
With the book-plates of James Toovey (Burnham Abbey) and Lord Gosford (Comitis de). Autograph notes in the handwriting of P.A. Hanrott on fly-leaf; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
20th-century dark brown calf by Duprez Lahey, Jan. 1926; with 16th-century English stamped calf panels from the original binding by John Reynes set in, including the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Note by Duprez Lahey records that the volume was previously bound in sheepskin not laced to the boards.
Classification
Department