Certaine sermons or homilies, appointed to be read in churches. . In the time of the late Queene Elizabeth of famous memory. And now thought fit to be reprinted by authority from the Kings most excellent Majesty.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury.
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Measurements
269 x 193 x 37 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074402
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paperInk/Pigment: black printing ink and a variety of early manuscript inks Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: 17.3Binder's Name: BritishEnd Leaves: Sewn single-leaf text hook of white paper within a folded printed waste text guard (folded stub outside). No pastedown. At the right, there appears to the remains of a sewn plain white paper endleaf outside the guard.Structure: BritishEdges: plain cut, sprinkled with red pigment, polishedSpine Lining: slight round, slight joints, glued, no liningsEnd Bands: worked 2x2 L-R in blue and white thread over bundled cane cores. Bookmark: NoneBoards: 3mm paper pulp boardsback-cornered, all slips laced, 2-hole perpendicular. Covering: full brown tanned calfTooling Spine: blind tooled 2-line tool at head and tail of each panel. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 2 line border frame and quarter line.Furniture: None Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes: the book was used to record many private notes, lists of names, drafts of letters, deaths, etc. The same printed waste used for the endleaf guards was used as spinefold reinforcements eg gathering Ff.
Bibliographic description
[8],98,[4],320,[4]p. . 4to.. Imperfect; title page torn and mounted on blank leaf; leaves Nn6-7 torn and crumpled; wanting final leaf.. Provenance: manuscript on inner upper board: "John Tompson. Anthony Wilson of Hesington in the county of Westmorland, gentleman". manuscript on A3r: "Edward Robinson his booke", and on A4r: "Rich: Robinson". manuscript on K2v: "John Robinson son of Edward Robinson of Newby-bridge whose name is subscribed did bestow this book upon Stavely Chappel in Cartmell. As witnesse his hand the sixteenth day of March anno Domini 1703 / Test Edmund Law, John Robinson". manuscript list of names on p. 312, dated 1676-77. manuscript inscription on inner rear board, dated 1654. manuscript marginal notes and inscriptions throughout.. Binding: 17th century calf binding, with double blind fillet border, and double blind fillet running parallel to spine-edge.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury. John Jewel (1522-1571) Bishop of Salisbury. Church of England