A werke for housholders : or for them that haue the guydynge or gouernaunce of any company. Gadred and set forth by a professed brother of Syon, Richard Whitforde: and newely corrected [and] prynted agayne with an addicion of polici for housholding, set forth also by the same brother.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?

Contributor:

Bernard Silvestris, active 1136.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 159:20.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Physical Description:

100 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[Imprynted at London]: [In fletestrete, at the sygne of the George, by me Robert Redman], The yere of our lorde God. M.D.xxxvii. The. viii. daye of Nouember. [1537]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

F4v has caption title, reading: A breue, or shorte monycion or counseyle of the cure and gouernaunce of a housholde, accordyng vnto policy. Taken out of a pystle of a greate lerned man, called Bernarde Syluestre, [et] put amonge the werkes of sai[n]t Bernarde, for bycause that many done iuge [et] thynke it was his owne werke. Set forth by the same brother.

The Bernardus portion is reprinted with minor alterations from STC 1967.5, a translation of: Bernard Silvestris. Epistola sa[n]cti Barnardi abbatis clareuallensis .. de bona gubernat[i]one familie.

Intended to be part 3 of STC 25413.

Signatures: A-E F6 G4.

Print show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Catchwords on sig. D8v: "be nat [sic]", which in fact form part of the text as they are not repeated at head of sig. E1.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1942. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 159:20). s1942 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 25425.

Related Work:

Bernard Silvestris, active 1136. Epistola .. de bona gubernatonne familie.

OCLC:

55171691