Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue: . written seven hundred yeares agoe. Shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue: and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. Published by William L'isle of Wilburgham, Esquire to the Kings body. Whereunto is added out of the homilies and epistles of Aelfricus a second edition of a testimony of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken to the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion.
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (c.955 - c.1010)
Category
Books
Date
1638
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094655
Summary
Bibliographic description
[61], 43, 43, [20], 14, 14, [25] p. ; 4to. Running number: 2669. Provenance: manuscript note in seventeenth-century hand on title page: "off the enstitution (in the primitive times) in receiving the Eucharist see Dr White his Treatise & defence of ye sabbath day fol. 102". Manuscript numbering of the individual tracts "14", "15", "16". With some manuscript marginal markings in pencil throughout the text. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt fillet and roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; blind roll on turn-ins; double gilt fillet panels on spine, with gilt rolls on 6 raised bands. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (c.955 - c.1010) William Lisle (1579-1637)