Apologia pro iuramento fidelitatis, primùm quidem anōnymos: nunc verò ab ipso auctore, serenissimo ac potentiss. principe, Iacobo Dei gratiâ magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ Rege, fidei defensore denuò edita. Cui præmissa est præfatio monitoria sacratiss. Cæsari Rodolph II. semper augusto, cæterisq[ue] Christiani orbis sereniss. ac potentiss. monarchis ac regibus: illustris. celsissimísque liberis principibus, rebuspublicis [sic] atque ordinibus inscripta, eodem auctore.
King James I (James VI of Scotland) (1566–1625)
Category
Books
Date
1609
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3031708
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 160, [16]; [2], 136, [6] p. ; 12mo. Lacks final blank leaves. Unnumbered pages following p. 160 (excluding final blank leaf) have been paginated by hand on recto. Provenance: manuscript inscription at foot of title page: "W. Dobyns"; early armorial bookplate on title page verso (Franks 8788 or *267): 'William Dobyns of Lincoln's Inn, Esqr.' [i.e. William Dobyns (d. 1709), father-in-law of Ashe Windham (1673-1749) of Felbrigg]. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto four raised bands; spine gilt; spine label (wanting); gilt edge rolled; red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
King James I (James VI of Scotland) (1566–1625) Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese) (1552-1621) Cardinal Saint Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino (1542-1621)