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The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr, : diuided into foure principall parts: with a large addition of manie theologicall and necessarie discourses, some neuer extant before. / Translated and partlie gathered by Anthonie Marten, one of the sewers of his Maiesties most honourable chamber.

Accession number
PML 17030
Creator
Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.
Published
Imprinted at London in Paternoster Rowe, : [By Henry Denham and Henry Middleton] at the costs and charges of Henri Denham, Thomas Chard, VVilliam Broome, and Andrew Maunsell., 1583.
Notes
"The common places" are divided into four parts, each with a caption title; pts. 1-2 have continuous pagination; pts. 3 and 4 each begin new pagination, continuous register with pts. 1-2; "Another collection of certaine diuine matters and doctrines of the same M.D. Peter Martyr" has a separate title page (with ornamental woodcut border), separate register, pagination begins at 101 on ²A3; "A sermon of Christes death" begins new pagination on ³2A1; "An oration wherein is set foorth the life and death of ... Peter Martyr Vermillius .. by Iosias Simlerus" has caption title, unpaginated, on leaves ²2P-²2R2.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
English translation from Latin of "Loci communes".
Publication information from colophon.
At end of title: "In the end of the booke are annexed two tables of all the notable matters therein conteined".
Description
[32], 640, 380 [i.e. 398], [2], 335 [i.e. 331], [1], [4], 101-252, 165, [107] pages ; 31 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Unidentified inscription on title page. First gathering heavily annotated, occasional marks and manicules thereafter. Unidentified inscription dated 1639 on verso of last printed page.
Provenance
Charles I's copy.
Binding
Brown calf binding, tooled and gilt. Stamped on both boards with the arms of Charles I, gilt. In black morocco case.
Classification
Department