The apologie of Fridericus Staphylus . counsellor to the late Empourer Ferdinandus, &c. Intreating of the true and right vnderstanding of holy Scripture. Of the translation of the Bible in to the vulgar tongue. Of disagrement in doctrine amonge the protestants. Translated out of Latin in to English by Thomas Stapleton, ... Also a discourse of the translator vppon the doctrine of the protestants vvhich he trieth by the three first founders and fathers thereof, Martin Luther, Philip Melancthon, and especially Iohn Caluin.
Fridericus Staphylus
Category
Books
Date
1565
Materials
Measurements
188 x 147 x 43 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3000233
Summary
Bibliographic description
116,119-254,[4] leaves,folded plate . 4to.. Imperfect; mutilated affecting title page, text in sigs. A-I, and text, running title and numbering of sigs. 3S-T; wanting plate; worm damage affecting text in sigs. 3N-R. Missing text in sigs. A-I has been written in in manuscript on nineteenth-century repairs.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on T4v. in a seventeenth-century hand: "Be of en unto all men by I John Hawt". Binding: Nineteenth-century purple calf binding.
Makers and roles
Fridericus Staphylus Thomas Stapleton (1535-1598)