The reliques of Rome : contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the church by the pope and his adherentes / faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.

Contributor:

Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Protestant authors--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Protestant authors.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Collinson, Er.(?) (autograph)

Friends Library (stamp, Philadelphia)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves, 266, that is, 264 leaves : portrait ; 15 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Iohn Day ..., 1563.

Notes:

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate beneath saint Martins. September 30. Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis, per septennium.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ [pointing hand]⁸ A⁸ B⁴ C-Y⁸ 2A-2N⁸.

Leaf numbers 145 and 146 omitted in sequence.

Title leaf within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut portrait of the author on verso of title leaf; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Identified as STC 410:07 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: title leaf mended with minor loss of text.

Imperfect: leaves 14 (D6) and 15 (D7) wanting.

Imperfect: leaves 260, 261 and 262 mutilated; one side-note excised from each leaf.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 1755

ESTC S101368

OCLC:

13594064