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The First tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testament. London: E. Whitchurche, 1548.
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ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466-1536)
The First tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testament. London: E. Whitchurche, 1548.
First major English translation of Erasmus's commentary on the New Testament. This edition, with the catchword ‘a manne’ on B1r, is one of several variants printed in the first year of publication; first volume only, a second part was published in 1549. While parts of Erasmus’s original Latin commentary had previously been translated into English, the present undertaking was the first attempt at a complete English version. Translated under the patronage of Catherine Parr by a group including Miles Coverdale and the future Queen Mary, a copy of this work was ordered by royal injunction to be 'set up in some convenient place' in churches across the country in order that all clergymen and their parishioners could read it. 'It was instrumental in making the New Testament in English available and known to clergy and people' and was 'the chief means by which Erasmus was claimed for the English reformed church' (Craig, Forming a Protestant Consciousness, p.335).
Howard Nixon identifies this binding as being one of four known examples with the oval centrepiece depicting the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe. The stamp, which shows Pyramus lying on the ground, apparently dead, and Thisbe committing suicide by falling on a sword, also bears the unidentified initials IS either side of a key. The three other bindings with the Pyramus and Thisbe block are: the Pirie copy of Ben Jonson's Workes (1616), the Lane copy of Agostino Tornielli's Annales sacri (1610), acquired by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1927, and a volume at Holkham dated 1600 (Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 25; N.B. Nixon incorrectly gives the date of this volume as 1541). Herbert 73; STC 2854.5.
Folio (278 x 189mm). Title within woodcut border [McKerrow and Ferguson 68], woodcut opening initials, early paper chapter divider tipped onto first leaf of John and lettered in manuscript (without the probable blanks Q8, 3B10 and 3P12, title and colophon leaves cut out and mounted, light marginal dampstaining in opening 3 quires, small marginal rustholes in 3L7-9, occasional and mostly marginal soiling). Contemporary English calf, borders ruled in blind and gilt enclosing gilt floral device at corners and oval centrepiece depicting the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, with Cupid and his bow and arrow to left, Pyramus below Thisbe at the centre, a lioness, mulberry tree and key with initials IS to the right, all within a laurel wreath surround featuring clasped hands and a heart pierced by arrows, spine gilt with double-headed eagle device (lacking clasps, some light wear and abrasions, tender at head of spine, upper joint just splitting). Provenance: ‘Bought in Bethlem neare bedlame at the whit horse …’ (contemporary inscription recording purchase, presumably at White Horse Yard opposite Bethlehem Hospital, London) – Robert Hyde (early inscriptions on title mount and two other leaves suggesting that the volume is ‘well worth 10s’ and ‘well worth an Angell’) – Edward Stewart (inscription on endpaper) – occasional 17th-century marginal annotations and a half-page of notes on front endpaper – George Kenyon of Peel Hall, Lancashire (1666–1728; armorial bookplate) – a loosely inserted typed letter, dated 1961, from Howard Nixon to Lord Kenyon, discussing the significance of the centrepiece.
The First tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testament. London: E. Whitchurche, 1548.
First major English translation of Erasmus's commentary on the New Testament. This edition, with the catchword ‘a manne’ on B1r, is one of several variants printed in the first year of publication; first volume only, a second part was published in 1549. While parts of Erasmus’s original Latin commentary had previously been translated into English, the present undertaking was the first attempt at a complete English version. Translated under the patronage of Catherine Parr by a group including Miles Coverdale and the future Queen Mary, a copy of this work was ordered by royal injunction to be 'set up in some convenient place' in churches across the country in order that all clergymen and their parishioners could read it. 'It was instrumental in making the New Testament in English available and known to clergy and people' and was 'the chief means by which Erasmus was claimed for the English reformed church' (Craig, Forming a Protestant Consciousness, p.335).
Howard Nixon identifies this binding as being one of four known examples with the oval centrepiece depicting the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe. The stamp, which shows Pyramus lying on the ground, apparently dead, and Thisbe committing suicide by falling on a sword, also bears the unidentified initials IS either side of a key. The three other bindings with the Pyramus and Thisbe block are: the Pirie copy of Ben Jonson's Workes (1616), the Lane copy of Agostino Tornielli's Annales sacri (1610), acquired by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1927, and a volume at Holkham dated 1600 (Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 25; N.B. Nixon incorrectly gives the date of this volume as 1541). Herbert 73; STC 2854.5.
Folio (278 x 189mm). Title within woodcut border [McKerrow and Ferguson 68], woodcut opening initials, early paper chapter divider tipped onto first leaf of John and lettered in manuscript (without the probable blanks Q8, 3B10 and 3P12, title and colophon leaves cut out and mounted, light marginal dampstaining in opening 3 quires, small marginal rustholes in 3L7-9, occasional and mostly marginal soiling). Contemporary English calf, borders ruled in blind and gilt enclosing gilt floral device at corners and oval centrepiece depicting the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, with Cupid and his bow and arrow to left, Pyramus below Thisbe at the centre, a lioness, mulberry tree and key with initials IS to the right, all within a laurel wreath surround featuring clasped hands and a heart pierced by arrows, spine gilt with double-headed eagle device (lacking clasps, some light wear and abrasions, tender at head of spine, upper joint just splitting). Provenance: ‘Bought in Bethlem neare bedlame at the whit horse …’ (contemporary inscription recording purchase, presumably at White Horse Yard opposite Bethlehem Hospital, London) – Robert Hyde (early inscriptions on title mount and two other leaves suggesting that the volume is ‘well worth 10s’ and ‘well worth an Angell’) – Edward Stewart (inscription on endpaper) – occasional 17th-century marginal annotations and a half-page of notes on front endpaper – George Kenyon of Peel Hall, Lancashire (1666–1728; armorial bookplate) – a loosely inserted typed letter, dated 1961, from Howard Nixon to Lord Kenyon, discussing the significance of the centrepiece.
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