Scala perfecc[i]onis.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Hilton, Walter, -1396.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 54:4.

Standardized Title:

Scale of perfection. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual life--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

298 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Scala perfectionis.

Here begynneth the table of the thyrde booke of water hylton named Vita mixta or scala perfeccionis.

Here begynneth the table of the thyrde booke of walter hylton named Vita mixta or scala perfeccionis.

Here begynnen the chapytours of this present volume of waltere Hylton, namyd in laten Scala perfecc[i]onis englysshed the ladder of perfecc[i]on.

Cap[itu]la prime partis, Here begynnen the chapytours of this present volume of waltere Hylton, namyd in laten Scala perfecc[i]onis englysshed the ladder of perfecc[i]on.

Place of Publication:

[Westminster] : [Printed by Wynkyn de Worde], [1494]

Notes:

An English translation.

With a title-page woodcut containing a nearly illegible xylographic prayer.

Text, a2r, begins: Cap[itu]la prime partis, Here begynnen the chapytours of this present volume of waltere Hylton, namyd in laten Scala perfecc[i]onis englysshed the ladder of perfecc[i]on ..

Envoi and colophon, leaf following s4, read: .. and wynkyn de worde this hath sett in prynt in willyam Caxtons hows .. Finit felicit[er] liber intitulatus Scala perfeccionis inpressus a[n]no salutis· M.cccc.lxxxxiiii.

Signatures: a4 b-q r6 s4 chi1; A B6.

"Here begynneth the table of the thyrde booke of water [sic] hylton named Vita mixta or scala perfeccionis", caption title, A1r. This book is lacking in most copies; its presence may constitute a later state.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1939. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 54:04). s1939 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 14042.

Hain-Copinger 9068.

Duff 203.

OCLC:

55197369