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A playne and godly exposytion or declaration of the commune crede : which in the Latin tonge is called symbolum apostolorum : and of the x commaundementes of Goddes law / newly made and put forth by the famouse clerke Mayster Erasmus of Roterdame ; at the requeste of the moste honorable lorde, Thomas Erle of Wyltshyre, father to the moste gratious and vertuous Quene Anne wyf to our most gracyous soveraygne lorde Kynge Henry the viii.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
- Standardized Title:
- Catechismus. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apostles' Creed--Early works to 1800.
- Apostles' Creed.
- Ten commandments--Early works to 1800.
- Ten commandments.
- Penn Provenance:
- Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) (bookplate) (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 187, that is, 178 leaves ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- [England?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1730 and 1739?]
- Notes:
- A reprint of Redman's 1533 edition translated by William Marshall. Cf. ESTC.
- "Typography belongs to 1730s but 'Monthly Catalogue', 1723-30, and 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1731-51, do not list the book. C's copy has two MS. dates: 1726 and 1736; a NUC copy has MS. date: 1733"--ESTC.
- Signatures: A-Y⁸ Z².
- Error in foliation: leaf 178 numbered 187.
- Title within ornamental border.
- Woodcut initials.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Covers, spine, front free endpapers and leaf A1 detached.
- Bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpapers; portrait of Erasmus pasted to front free endpaper.
- Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) copy; on permanent deposit at the University of Pennsylvania Library.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T138059
- OCLC:
- 24681953
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