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Ref NoEFP/093/1479/BRN 1107971
Finding NumberA Q 093/1479
TitleCordiale or the four last thinges / / translated from the French by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers.
LevelItem
Date1479
DescriptionA translation by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers (named on [K]4v) of the French version by Jean Mie?lot of "Cordiale quattuor novissimorum", which is sometimes attributed to Denis le Chartreux and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven.; Edited by William Caxton.; Title from [A]4v. Opening words of text, [A]2r, "aL ingratitude vtterly settyng apart, we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace ...". [A]3r begins "tHis present tretys is deuided in four principal parties ..."; [A]4r begins "mEmorare nouissima et in eternum non peccabis. Ecclesiastici. septimo capitulo."; text proper begins on [A]5r: "tHe first parte of the four last thinges ...";

Publication date from [K]5v; Caxton is named on [K]4v.;

Signatures: [A-I[sup]8[sup] K[sup]6];

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.; Two leaves slashed and repaired; lower margin of the majority of leaves mutilated and repaired, not affecting text; lower margins lightly browned, not affecting text; initial capitals and paragraph marks in MS. ink red; capitals touched in MS. in yellow up to p. [32]; MS. ink initials and MS. pencil notes on recto of front blank leaf, MS. ink notes in old hand on verso; MS. ink notes in old hand on recto of final blank leaf, MS. ink marks on verso; MS. ink notes in later hand on final fly-leaf; 884556.;

Al ingratitude vtterly settyng apart, we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace.; Al ingratitude utterly settyng apart, we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace.; This present tretys is deuided in four principal parties.; This present tretys is devided in four principal parties.; Memorare nouissima et in eternum non peccabis. Ecclesiastici. septimo capitulo.; Memorare novissima et in eternum non peccabis. Ecclesiastici. septimo capitulo.; First parte of the four last thinges.; Four last things.; Microfilm.; S106511.


G.W. 7536; Goff C 907; STC 5758.; Printed by William Caxton.; De Ricci 33, copy no. 5, previously owned by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford; Osborne (1743); Joseph Brereton; the Earl of Dysart and the Ehrman Family. Perfect copy.; Red Morocco binding, gilt-tooled in the Harleian style, with roll-tool border, of about 1720.

[156] p. ; 2j.
AuthorRivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl; Caxton, William
SubjectEschatology
Access StatusClosed until assessed
AccessConditionsThis item is listed in the Archives and Collections Access Policy as having restricted access. Please contact archives.appointments@birmingham.gov.uk to find out more.
Digital copies of this item are available via the British Library Incunabla Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) https://data.cerl.org/istc/ic00907000
LanguageEnglish
Publisher[Westminster] : William Caxton, 24 Mar. 1479.
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