Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.
Miles Coverdale (1488-1568) Bishop of Exeter
Category
Books
Date
1564
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3047073
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 46, 49-689, [5] p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 357. The two final contents leaves are bound between p. 682 and 683. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "M. p. 46. & 49. follow one another, yet compleat, as may be seen by the Latin p. 45" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: English, sixteenth-century blind-tooled full dark calf (worn); sewn on four supports; plain outer frame of intersecting double blind fillets, inner frame of a blind strapwork and ornamental roll, plain central panel with letter S stamped in blind in the middle; holes for two pairs of ties (missing) on edge of boards; plain spine, repaired in brown goatskin. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
Miles Coverdale (1488-1568) Bishop of Exeter, editor John Bradford (1510-1555), writer Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury., writer John Hooper (1500-1555) Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester , writer Nicholas Ridley (c.1500-1555) Bishop of Rochester., writer John Day (1521/2 - 1584), printer