This treatyse concernynge the fruytful saynges of Dauid the kynge & prophete in the seuen penytencyall psalmes. Deuyded in seuen sermons was made and compyled by the ryght reuerente fader in god Iohan fyssher doctoure of dyuynyte & bysshop of Rochester at the exortacyo[n] and sterynge of the moost excelle[n]t princesse Margarete cou[n]tesse of Rychemou[n]t and Derby, & moder to our sonerayne [sic] lorde kynge Henry the. vii.
John Fisher (1469-1535) Bishop of Rochester
Category
Books
Date
1509 - 1519
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005967
Summary
Bibliographic description
[292] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7026. Leaves aa1 and &&6 repaired. Provenance: manuscript initials (sixteenth-century?) on title page: "WH". Manuscript inscription (sixteenth-century?) on leaf aa2 recto: "Fr: Mau:". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf recto: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf verso: "under Fisher" [i.e. catalogue entry note written by John Mitchell]. Binding: seventeenth-century English full sprinkled sheepskin; sewn on three recessed cords; smooth spine; double blind fillet border with additional double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge; blind dotted roll along board edges; double blind fillet decoration on spine; rebacked in goatskin with original spine strip retained; red sprinkled bookblock edges. Conservator's typescript note on the binding repairs attached to rear fly-leaf, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad 17 January 1986'.
Makers and roles
John Fisher (1469-1535) Bishop of Rochester , author Wynkyn de Worde (c.1456 - c.1535), printer