The doome warning all men to the iudgemente: wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approued authors by St. Batman professor in diuinite.
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007062
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 132, 135-434, p. 436, 438-439, p. 439, p. 438, 436-437, [1] p. : ill. (woodcut), coat of arms ; 4to. Running number: 356. Imperfect: wanting the title page. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf recto: [1] "M. wants Title-page" [i.e. catalogue code and copy note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; [2] "Batman's Cronicle of Prodigies 1581" (in an unidentified eighteenth-century hand). Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf verso: "The Doome Warning all men to ye Judgemente …" (i.e. the missing title, written in an unidentified eighteenth-century hand). Slip of paper pinned to front fly-leaf verso containing manuscript inscriptions: [1] "The doome warning all men to the judgemente …" (i.e. the missing title, written in a different unidentified eighteenth-century hand); [2] "Fishers fun: sermn. reprinted & publish'd 1705[?] by Wr[?] Baker[?] of St Ju[?] College" (written in a different unidentified eighteenth-century hand); [3] "400". Manuscript note in a sixteenth-century hand on leaf 2E8v: "Perlegi" [i.e. "read"]. Binding: English, seventeenth-century full calf; sewn on four recessed cords; smooth spine; double blind fillet border; single blind fillet along board edges; double blind fillet decoration on spine; red stained bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561), author Stephen Batman (d. 1584), author Henry Bynneman (d. 1583), publisher Ralph Newbery (d. 1604), printer