An easy and compendious inrtoduction for reading all sorts of histories : contrived in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published / out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux, Mr. of Arts, and sometime Fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?

Contributor:

Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.

Lichfield, Leonard, -1686, printer.

Davis, Richard, active 1646-1688, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history--Early works to 1800.

World history.

Church history--Early works to 1800.

Church history.

Councils and synods--Early works to 1800.

Councils and synods.

History.

Great Britain--History--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 153, 156-157, 156-157, 160-391, 92, 375-381, 381 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

Sixth edition, corrected and augmented / To which is added A synopsis of councels, by John Prideaux.

Other Title:

Easy and compendious inrtodvction for reading all sorts of histories

Easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories

Easy and compendious introdvction for reading all sorts of histories

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by Leon. Lichfield, and to be sold by Richard Davis, 1682.

Contents:

Of political history in general, deduced from Nimrod according to the four monarchies

Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families

A synopsis of councels / by John Prideaux.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴-I⁴, K⁴-T⁴, t², U⁴, X⁴-2I⁴, 2K⁴-2T⁴, 2U⁴, 2X⁴-3C⁴, 3A⁴-3E⁴, A⁴-G⁴, H².

"Of political history in general" and "Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families" each have separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are continuous.

Edited and published after Mathias Prideaux's death by John Prideaux, his father.

Pagination is irregular. I.e., the first two of the three pages following first p. 156 are unnumbered; the third page is numbered 153. The page following p. 391 is numbered 92. The [4] pages preceding the [32]-page unnumbered section are numbered 37, 180, 381, and 182.

"With an exact continuation of all the Popes, Emperors, and our Kings of England to this present time, with three useful indexes."

"A synopsis of councels", by John Prideaux, a translation of his "Consiliorum synopsis" (Wing P3421), has separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are separate. This edition may also have been issued separately, according to Wing P3437.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cited in:

Wing, P3445.

ESTC, R29253.

Related Work:

Prideaux, John, 1578-1650. Consiliorum synopsis. English.

Contains:

Of political history in general, deduced from Nimrod according to the four monarchies.

Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families.

Synopsis of councels.

OCLC:

38693427