Annotations upon all the books of the Old and New Testament:. this second edition so enlarged, as they make an entire commentary on the sacred Scripture: the like never before published in English. Wherein the text is explained, doubts resolved, scriptures parallelled, and various readings observed. By the labour of certain learned divines thereunto appointed, and therein employed, as is expressed in the preface.
John Ley (1583-1662)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3186745
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([2550] p.) ; fol. Running number: 4069. Provenance: manuscript book number on inside front board of vol. 1: "(183)". Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf of vol. 1: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription running vertically up gutter margin of front fly-leaf of both vols: "Ro: Smyth. pti: 1l.-2s.-0d.". Binding: seventeenth-century[?] sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; single gilt fillet on board edges. Blind-tooled panels on spines, with gilt title label: 'Assembly's Annotations vol. I[-II]'. Red stained edges. Manuscript number on fore-edges: "148" (vol. 1) and "149" (vol. 2).
Makers and roles
John Ley (1583-1662) John Downame (d.1652)