Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church : with an vniuersall history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter times of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader by the author Maister Iohn Foxe, the fift time newly imprinted. Anno. 1596. Mens. Iun.
1596
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Title
Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church : with an vniuersall history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter times of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Now againe, as it was recognised, perused, and recommended to the studious reader by the author Maister Iohn Foxe, the fift time newly imprinted. Anno. 1596. Mens. Iun.
Uniform title
Actes and monuments
Rerum in ecclesia gestarum comentarii.
Rerum in ecclesia gestarum comentarii.
Created/published
At London : Printed by Peter Short, dwelling on Breadstreete hill at the signe of the Starre, by the assigne of R. Day, [1596 (June)]
Description
2 v. () : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; (fol.)
Associated name
Foxe, John, 1516-1587. author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
First word of title is xylographic.
Kalender printed in red and black.
Pagination: [28], 1949, [27] p., [2] woodcut inserts. Volume 2 has title: The second volume of the ecclesiasticall historie ...
Includes index.
On 16 Jan. 1589 the assigns of R. Day were ordered to pay for defending the inclusion of the Book of Martyrs in their patent, prob. in connection w. the controversy over 11229; see Greg, Register B, p.30. For details of printing the 1596 ed., w. costs and names of the partners see Register B, pp.51-55. --STC.
Signatures: vol.1: [par.]⁶ [superscript chi][par.]⁸ A-V⁶, 2A-2V⁶, 3A-3S⁶,. 3T-3V⁸; vol.2: 4A-4V⁶, 5A-5E⁶ 5F-5G⁴ 5H-5V⁶, 6A-6V⁶, 7A-7V⁶, 8A-8Z⁶, ([three dots forming a triangle])⁶ ([par.])⁴.
Based on Rerum in ecclesia gestarum comentarii. Basle, 1559.
Kalender printed in red and black.
Pagination: [28], 1949, [27] p., [2] woodcut inserts. Volume 2 has title: The second volume of the ecclesiasticall historie ...
Includes index.
On 16 Jan. 1589 the assigns of R. Day were ordered to pay for defending the inclusion of the Book of Martyrs in their patent, prob. in connection w. the controversy over 11229; see Greg, Register B, p.30. For details of printing the 1596 ed., w. costs and names of the partners see Register B, pp.51-55. --STC.
Signatures: vol.1: [par.]⁶ [superscript chi][par.]⁸ A-V⁶, 2A-2V⁶, 3A-3S⁶,. 3T-3V⁸; vol.2: 4A-4V⁶, 5A-5E⁶ 5F-5G⁴ 5H-5V⁶, 6A-6V⁶, 7A-7V⁶, 8A-8Z⁶, ([three dots forming a triangle])⁶ ([par.])⁴.
Based on Rerum in ecclesia gestarum comentarii. Basle, 1559.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available for copy 1, volume 1.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 11226
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122169
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122169
Includes
Second volume of the ecclesiasticall historie
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 11226 copy 1 v. 1 (flat)
Folger-specific note
HH90/1. Vol. 1 only; bound uniform with vol. 2 (smk STC 11226 Copy 1 Vol. 2). Imperfect: wanting the woodcut insert. Manuscript notes and markings throughout, including manicules and underscoring. Burn-holes; some leaves are stained. Mottled calf binding, blind-tooled. With printed waste between the leather and boards, obscured by reparations; the printed waste is from an unknown source and of an undetermined format (some keywords: "Robert Bateman," "Salop," "St. Paul's [Chain?]," "great Physicians"); images of the printed waste are available from the Folger Conservation Lab. For additional bibliographical information on different settings of A2r, A5r and R2r which appear in various copies of Folger smks STC 11226 and 11226a, and also on citations, see entries for Foxe's Actes and Monuments in Folger Card bibliography. Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 11226 copy 1 v. 2 (flat)
Folger-specific note
HH90/1. Vol. 2 only. Imperfect: wanting most of the index (i.e. gathering ([three dots forming a triangle]) and ([par.])2.3 and the woodcut insert. Some manuscript markings and notes. Stained and wormed throughout. Cropped, affecting woodcut on 7O5v. Mottled calf binding, blind-tooled. Provenance: inscribed on verso of second volume t.p.: "Peter Wentworth"; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 11226 copy 2 v. 1 (flat)
Folger-specific note
cs1185. Vol. 1 only; bound uniform with vol. 2 (smk STC 11226 Copy 2 Vol. 2). Imperfect: wanting leaves [par.]2-6, gathering [superscript chi][par.]⁸, and the woodcut insert. The title leaf is trimmed and mounted. Some leaves are stained or with burn-holes. Some leaves are repaired along the fore-edges, without affecting text or side-notes. On front free endpaper are catalogue entries for editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs from an unidentified bookseller (none of the entries describes the Folger copy). Bound in half red goatskin. Provenance: 1923 Folger purchase from Young, cat. 494, lot 39
Call number
STC 11226 copy 2 v. 2 (flat)
Folger-specific note
cs1185. Imperfect: v. 2 only; wanting the woodcut insert. Some manuscript notes in the margins of the index. Wormed, affecting side-notes in gatherings 8O and 8P. Some leaves are stained. Bound in half red goatskin. Provenance: 1923 Folger purchase from Young, cat. 494, lot 39
Call number
STC 11226 copy 3 v. 1 (flat)
Folger-specific note
cs291. Vol. 1 only; bound uniform with vol.2 (smk STC 11226 Copy 3 Vol. 2). Imperfect: wanting [par.]2-4, [superscript chi][par.]1.8, leaf 3M1, gathering 3V, and the woodcut insert (one woodcut is bound at the beginning of STC 11226 Copy 3 Vol. 2). The title leaf is backed, obscuring manuscript markings of provenance on verso of t.p. Leaf [par.]6 is torn away and backed at tail, with loss of text and direction-line. Leaf V4 is partially torn away. Some edges are trimmed or frayed, affecting side-notes. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: "[?]ster (?) Nuell (?)"; inscribed on verso of t.p. (obscured by pasted-on leaf): "Robt. [Robert] [Friel?] his Book November the 18 1765"; inscribed on [superscript chi][par.]4r: "Mr John Sorril"; Waldo H. Whitcomb copy (Folger file); May, 1904 Folger purchase from Libbie Sale, cat. (May 17)., lot 305
Call number
STC 11226 copy 3 v. 2 (flat)
Folger-specific note
cs291. Vol. 2 only. Imperfect: wanting the second vol. title leaf (4A1) and leaves ([par.])2-4. A few manuscript markings. The woodcut insert ("The description of Windsore Castle") is slightly damaged, affecting the image, backed, and bound in place of 4A1. Leaves 4A2,3 are damaged and repaired, affecting text and side-notes. 4A7,8 are tightly bound, affecting side-notes; holes on 4A7, affecting the woodcut. 5B1 damaged and repaired (by sewing), affecting side-notes. The fore-edge of 7O5 is folded over. 8Q1 torn at tail, affecting text and direction-line. Provenance: see provenance for smk STC 11226 Copy 3 Vol. 1
Call number
STC 11226 copy 4 v.1 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Vol. 1 only; its companion, vol. 2, is the variant, STC 11226a, under which it is separately catalogued (smk STC 11226a Copy 1 Vol. 2). Imperfect: wanting the woodcut insert. Prelims. are paginated in pencil on the rectos only. Manuscript markings: dots and manicules. Burn-holes. On the front paste-down is a printed bibliographical note from an unidentified source. Bound uniform with vol. 2: Contemporary (?) armorial calf binding, with a gilt central medallion flanked by the initials "S G"; gilt and blind tooled panel, with gilt ducal coronets surmounting fleur de lys at angles from each of the corners; evidence of ties (?). Provenance: book-label of Dudley Massey Pigott, Carelton, 2nd baron Dorchester, Greywell Hill, Basingstoke; Harmsworth copy
Folger accession
HH90/2
Former call number
STC 11226a Copy 1 Vol. 1
Call number
STC 11226 copy 5 v. 1 (flat)
Folger-specific note
The first part only, bound with the second part, which is the variant (STC 11226a) and separately catalogued (smk Bd.w. STC 11226a Copy 2). Imperfect: wanting the title leaf, the rest of the prelims. (gatherings [par.] and [superscript chi][par.]), and the inserts. Manuscript markings: manicules. Some of the faces or eyes of the woodcut images of the popes have been blacked-out in ink (e.g. p. 726). Wormed; stained; burn-holes. Half calf binding with marbled paper-covered boards. Provenance: Folger purchase from Frank B. Brown, Cat. 3, item 33 (Folger file)
Folger accession
4806
Former call number
STC 11226a Copy 2