Incipit liber qui vocatur festialis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirk, John, active 1403?

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Festial

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saints--Legends--Early works to 1800.

Saints.

Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church.

Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.

Fasts and feasts.

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Genre:

Legends.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 unnumbered pages)

Other Title:

Liber festivalis and Quatuor sermones.

Afore shall come tokens of grete drede.

Helpe and grace of almyghty god thrugh the besechynge of his blessed moder saynt mari be wyth vs.

Helpe and grace of almyghty god thrugh the besechynge of his blessed moder saynt mari be wyth us.

Mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the souerayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heuen erthe, or water, was his owne godnes.

Mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the soverayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heven erthe, or water, was his owne godnes.

Lay folks' catechism.

Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge.

Place of Publication:

[Westminster : Printed by William Caxton, 1491]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

By John Mirk.

An edition of "Liber festivalis". The recension, according to Needham (pages 68) is that of STC 17958, not 17957.

Title from a2, column 2.

Colophon, part 1, reads "Caxton me fieri fecit"; his device appears on s6v and the final leaf. Publication date from STC.

Signatures: a-p q² R s⁶; A-C D¹⁰.

The first leaf is blank.

Text begins: The helpe and grace of al- #5FD\ myghty god thrugh the besechyn #5FD\ ge of his blessed moder saynt ma #5FD\ ri be wyth vs ..

a3r text begins: afore shall come tokens of grete drede ..

"Quattuor sermones" has separate register; text begins "T³he mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the souerayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heuen erthe, or water, was his owne godnes ..". The text is "an expanded paraphrase of a mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire devotional compendium known as the 'Lay folks' catechism' or 'Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge'" (Needham, pages 67).

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 301:02) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17959.

Duff 301-2.

Hain 7028; Copinger 2479.

Needham, P. Printer and the pardoner, Cx 103, 104.

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