Accession number
PML 49360.2
Creator
Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.
Published
At Oxford : Printed by Iohn Lichfield, and are to be sold by Thomas Huggins, Ann. Dom. 1632.
Notes
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-F⁴ G².
Signatures: A-F⁴ G².
Description
50, [2] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
On rear leaf verso is inscribed in a contemporary hand: "An explication of the Fourth Commandement [sic]" and "Edward" (smeared).
Provenance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, inscribed: "Grove, Highgate. Given me by Mr West, Surgeon, at Calne, Wiltshire. S. T. C.," and annotations sporadically throughout both parts, about 1825-25 (Coleridge Collected Letters, ed. Griggs, vol. IV, p. 593-4); Baron Latymer (ownership cited in Coleridge CL, IV (published 1959): 594, n1); Pierpont Morgan Library.
Binding
18th-century English brown calf. A manuscript leaf previously used as wrapper, bound-in, 14th-century, England (Hereford?), including text of miracles in 1290 performed at the tomb of Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford (see Acta sanctorum, ed. Carnandet (Paris and Rome, 1866), vol. Oct., pt. I: Miracula S. Thomae de Cantilupe episcopi, nos. 76-83, pp. 672-73); incorrectly described by Coleridge as containing, "part of a record, that had belonged to Canterbury Cathedral, of the Pilgrims, offerings, miraculous cures &c at the Shrine of Thomas of Becket".
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