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Ref NoEFP/094/1664/3
Finding NumberA094/1664/3
TitleAn easy and compendious introdvction for reading all sorts of histories : contrived in a more facile way than heretofore hath been published; out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux, Mr of Arts, and sometime Fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford. The fourth edition, in which is added a Synopsis of Councels by John Prideaux, late Regius Professor of Divninity at Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester
LevelItem
Date1664
DescriptionEasy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories; Conciliorum synopsis. English; Of political history in generall; Of the history of successions in states, countries, or families
Edited and published after the death of Mathias Prideaux by John Prideaux, his father.; "Of political history in generall" and "Of the history of successions in states, countries, or families" have individual title pages dated 1661, with continuous pagination and register; "A synopsis of councels" has an individual title page dated 1661, but the pagination and register are separate.; Each section includes indexes.; Page 257 misnumbered 267.; "A synopsis of councels" was originally issued separately as: Prideaux, John. Conciliorum synopsis. (cf. Wing); Quire 4B transposed; small hole on t.p., not affecting text; 526726.; Easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories.; Of political history in generall.; Of the history of successions in states, countries, or families.; Microfilm.; ESTCR217461.
AuthorPrideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?; Prideaux, John, 1578-1650, ed
SubjectCouncils and synods; Kings and rulers -- Succession; History, Ancient
Physical Description[8], 122, 121-256, [2], 267 [i.e. 257]-351, [35]; [2], 58, [4] p. ; 4j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOxford : printed for A. & L. Lichfield, printers to the University, and are to be sold by Joh Crosley, & Joh. Wilmot, 1664.
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