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A very frutefull and pleasant boke called the instructio[n] of a Christen woma[n] : made fyrst in Laten, and dedicated vnto the quenes good grace, by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Viues, and turned out of Laten in to Enlgysshe by Rycharde Hyrd ; whiche boke who so redeth diligently shall haue knowlege of many thynges, wherin he shal take great pleasure, and specially women shal take great co[m]modyte and frute towarde the[n]creace of vertue [and] good maners.

Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540, author.; Hyrde, Richard.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.; Britwell Library, former owner.
1529
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Title
A very frutefull and pleasant boke called the instructio[n] of a Christen woma[n] : made fyrst in Laten, and dedicated vnto the quenes good grace, by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Viues, and turned out of Laten in to Enlgysshe by Rycharde Hyrd ; whiche boke who so redeth diligently shall haue knowlege of many thynges, wherin he shal take great pleasure, and specially women shal take great co[m]modyte and frute towarde the[n]creace of vertue [and] good maners.
Uniform title
De institutione foeminae christianae. English
Created/published
Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete, in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cundite, at the sygne of Lucrece, [1529?]
Description
[322] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540, author.
Hyrde, Richard.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Note
A translation, by Richard Hyrde, of: Vives, Juan Luis. De institutione foeminae christianae.

Imprint from colophon; publication date suggested by STC.

Imprimatur at end of colophon: Cum priuilegio a rege indulto.

Signatures: A⁴(-A4) B-Y⁴ a-r⁴ s⁶.

Leaf B2r catchword: 'to'; C2r line 1: 'comaunde'.
Publications about material
Hawk, Brandon W. "A Handwritten Prayer in the Folger Shakespeare Library's Copy of Richard Hyrde's Instruction of a Christen Woman." In Notes and Queries (2015) 62 (2): 253-257.
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), 24856.5
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S95706
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 24856
Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Imprimaturs.
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 24856
Folger-specific note
Title leaf is wormed, damaged, and inlaid, with loss of some of the woodcut border and affecting "Hyrd" in title. MS. markings and notes, including MS. prayer on B4v, dated "12⁰ September 1637" and beginning: "Lord a thousand yeares are in thy sight but as yesterday and a day as a thousand yeares ..." A2.3 mutilated and repaired at head upper corner, affecting text. Stained. Provenance: inscribed on A2r: "Thomas"; Britwell Court copy (with the pencilled Britwell shelf-mark: 11.E.15.); Britwell theol. sale, May 5, 1920, lot 487; collated at Quaritch by E.T. [E. Talbot], May 28, 1920; Harmsworth copy
Folger accession
HH211/25

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