A boke made by Iohan Fryth, prysoner in the Towr of London, answering vnto. M. Mores letter, which he wrote against the fyrst lytle treatyse that Iohan Fryth made concerning the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ: vnto which boke are added in the ende the artycles of his examination before the bysshoppes of London, Winchester and Lincolne, in Paules Churche at London, for whych Iohn Frith was condempned and after brente in Smytfilde without Newgate, the forth day of Iuly. Anno. 1533. Now newely reuised, corrected and printed in the yeare of our Lord. 1548. the last daye of Iune.
John Frith (1503-1533)
Category
Books
Date
1548
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3077559
Summary
Bibliographic description
[236] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 7029. With sixteenth-century manuscript marginal notes. Twentieth-century[?] manuscript code in pencil on printed waste: "B9". Binding: sixteenth-century English blind-tooled sheepskin over pasteboards; sewn on three parchment supports; front and rear covers with a framework of intersecting double blind fillets, the middle frame with blind foliage panelled roll containing cherub and double birds (not listed in J. Basil Oldham's English Blind-Stamped Bindings but similar to his roll FP.f(6) 679); remnants of two pairs of red and white woven textile ties (stubs remaining inside the boards); plain spine, repaired at head and tail in calf; two partial leaves of printed waste at front and at rear (English, sixteenth-century, black letter, not identified). Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on printed waste: "repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
John Frith (1503-1533), author Anthony Scoloker (fl. 1548), printer William Seres (d. ca. 1579), printer