Io. VViclefi uiri undiquaque pijs. Dialogoru[m] libri q[ua]tutor quoru[m] primus diuinitate[m] & id[a]eas tractat, secu[n]dus uniuersaru[m] creatione[m] co[m]plectitur. Tertius de uirtutib[us] uitijsq[ue] ipsis co[n]trarijs copiosissime loq[ui]tur. Quartus Ro. ecclesi[a]e sacrame[n]ta, eius pestifera[m] dotatione[m], anti christi regnu[m], fratru[m] fraudulenta[m] origine[m] atq[ue] eoru[m] hypocrisum, uariaq[ue] n[ost]ro aeuo scitu dignissima, graphice p[er]stringit, qu[a]e ut essent in ue[n?]tu facilia, singuloru[m] libroru[m], tum caput, tum capitiis summa[m] indice praenotauimus.
John Wycliffe (c.1331 - 1384)
Category
Books
Date
1525
Materials
Place of origin
Worms
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3070954
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], CLXXV, [1] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6990. Top corner of first front fly-leaf cut off to remove a price[?] inscription, a feature common to a number of books in the library; the missing price inscription can be seen offset in mirror image on the opposite endpaper: "5-2". Worm hole from leaf X3 through to Xx4. Provenance: manuscript inscription at foot of leaf A2r, heavily scribbled over and obscured in black ink but just legible: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi Cantuar et Cancellarij Vniuersitatis Oxon. 1634" [i.e. William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury]. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century Harleian style gold-tooled red morocco over pasteboards; sewn on five raised bands; gilt border of a double fillet between small decorative outer roll and crown, fleur-de-lis and shell pattern inner roll; lozenge-shaped centrepiece design of small fleuron and floral tools; gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine with green goatskin title label 'Wicleffi Dialogor'' gilt edges; comb pattern marbled endpapers. Worm holes in lower cover.
Makers and roles
John Wycliffe (c.1331 - 1384), author Otto Brunfels (1488-1534), editor Johann Froben (d.1527), editor Peter Schöffer (ca. 1475-1547), printer