The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons, newly collected out of auncient monumentes of the sayd Saxons, and now published for testimonie of the same.
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Category
Books
Date
1571
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094660
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 408 p. ; 4to. Running number: 2679. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript bibliographical references written in a seventeenth or eighteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Tho: Turswell" [possibly Thomas Turswell (1548-1585), of Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire; ecclesiastical administrator and Canon of St. Paul's]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillets and gilt title label 'Saxon Gospels' on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Foxe (1516-1587) Matthew Parker (1504-1575) Archbishop of Canterbury, engraver and publisher