The "Testimony of Antiquity" has two separate title pages; the second, which follows the preface, gives the title of the work as "A sermon of the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramental body and bloud of Christ"; the running titles for this work are "In die Sancto Pascae" (above the Anglo-Saxon text) and "A sermon on Easter day" (above the English translation).
"Of the Old Testament" has running title "De veteri Testamento" above the Anglo-Saxon text; "Of the New Testament" has running title "De novo Testamento" above the Anglo-Saxon text.
The epistles to Wulfine and the Lord's Prayer [etc.] have separate fly title pages.
Signatures: [pi]² [par]⁴ a-f⁴ A-V⁴.
PML copy wants 1 leaf: V4 (blank).
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Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue : written seven hundred yeares agoe : shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords Prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue : and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ / published by William L'Isle ... : whereunto is added out of the Homilies and Epistles of Aelfricus a second edition of a testimonie of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken by the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion.
Accession number:
PML 38225
Published:
London : Printed by E.G. [i.e. Edward Griffin] for Francis Eglesfield, 1638.
Description:
[40], 12-43, [10], 14, [11] leaves ; 18 cm
Credit:
Purchased in 1944.
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Binding:
Quarter calf with paper sides, bound by Duprez Lahey.
Provenance:
George Wilbraham, bookplate; Maj. H.E. Wilbraham, Delamere House, bookplate; Wilbraham sale, Sotheby's 1928; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W.H. Schab, Nov. 1944.
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