Good newes to Christendome. : Sent to a Venetian in Ligorne, from a merchant in Alexandria. Discouering a wonderfull and strange apparition, visibly seene for many dayes togither in Arabia, ouer the place, where the supposed tombe of Mahomet (the Turkish prophet) is inclosed: by which the learned Arabians prognosticate the reducing & calling of the great Turke to Christianitie. With many other notable accidents: but the most remarkable is the miraculous rayning of bloud about Rome. Done out of the Italian.
1620
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Good newes to Christendome. : Sent to a Venetian in Ligorne, from a merchant in Alexandria. Discouering a wonderfull and strange apparition, visibly seene for many dayes togither in Arabia, ouer the place, where the supposed tombe of Mahomet (the Turkish prophet) is inclosed: by which the learned Arabians prognosticate the reducing & calling of the great Turke to Christianitie. With many other notable accidents: but the most remarkable is the miraculous rayning of bloud about Rome. Done out of the Italian.
Created/published
London : Printed [by G. Purslowe] for Nathaniel Butter, 1620.
Description
[6], 40 p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Cortano, Ludovico, author.
Butter, Nathaniel, -1664, attributed name.
Ireland, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835, former owner.
Butter, Nathaniel, -1664, attributed name.
Ireland, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835, former owner.
Note
Page 36 signed: Ludouico Cortano.
Printer's name from STC.
Woodcut title vignette.
Possibly translated by Nathaniel Butter.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-F⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 29 January; 'recalled' 31 January [1620]
Printer's name from STC.
Woodcut title vignette.
Possibly translated by Nathaniel Butter.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-F⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 29 January; 'recalled' 31 January [1620]
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
ESTC staff note
Original Italian title not traced.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008-2009. Breaking News (catalog entry 9)
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), 5796
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S124212
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S124212
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 5796
Folger-specific note
Manuscript notes. T.p. cropped at fore-edge and foot. Provenance: inscriptions: "S.W.H. Ireland, Jnr." and "Dudley Phillips"; purchased in 1936 from Last Catalogue 215:128; bookplate of Thomas Maryon Wilson
Folger accession
4832