Incipit liber qui vocatur festialis
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Westminster :
Printed by William Caxton,
1491]
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([340] pages) |