Iesv Christi D.N. Novv Testamentvm, Theodoro Beza interprete : Additaesunt summae breues doctrinae in Euangelistas, & Acta Apostolorum. Item, methodus apostolicarum Epistolarum ab eodem autore, cum breui phraseon, & locorum difficiliorum expositione, ex ipsius autoris maioribus annotationibus desumpta: paucis etiam additis ex Ioach. Camerarij notationibus in Euangelistas & Acta.
1576
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Iesv Christi D.N. Novv Testamentvm, Theodoro Beza interprete : Additaesunt summae breues doctrinae in Euangelistas, & Acta Apostolorum. Item, methodus apostolicarum Epistolarum ab eodem autore, cum breui phraseon, & locorum difficiliorum expositione, ex ipsius autoris maioribus annotationibus desumpta: paucis etiam additis ex Ioach. Camerarij notationibus in Euangelistas & Acta.
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Bible. New Testament. Latin. Bèza. 1576.
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Londini : Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, Typographus, Anno MDLXXVI. [1576]
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([16], 419, [1] leaves)
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Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 2804
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S102462
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S102462
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STC 2804
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From dealer's description: "Iesu Christi D.N. Novum Testamentum, Theodoro Beza interprete. Additae sunt summae breues doctrinae in Euangelistas, & Acta Apostolorum. Item, methodus apostolicarum Epistolarum ab eodem autore, cum breui phraseon, & locorum difficiliorum expositione, ex ipsius autoris maioribus annotationibus desumpta: paucis etiam additis ex Ioach. Camerarij notationibus in Euangelistas & Acta. Londini. Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, typographus. 1576. One work bound in two vols., 8vo. (16.2 cms. x 10.8 cms. in binding), pp. [32] 214; 215-419 [3]. With privilege leaf at end. Interleaved throughout. Light browning and soiling, one printed leaf loose, title-page loosening, very good. Bound in late 16th-cent. dark brown English calf, filleted in blind, spine with five raised bands and eight gilt stamps, bound without pastedowns and with waste from a 15th-cent. musical manuscript on vellum written in red and black. Covers with central gilt stamp as discussed below. Bindings rubbed, worn to sides, spine in second vol. with three wormholes and a tear at tail, bindings very good. All edges yellow, titling to heads of fore edges. With eight small loose pieces of paper, folded in, with MS notes of the later 17th-cent. annotator discussed below. Supplementary to ownership discussed below,a pencil note to f.f.e.p. recto of vol. I, dated 19 August 1733, recording purchase by Humphrey Roberts of Jesus College Oxford, for price 1 - 4. To same, removal of a small label. This vol. also with bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. Very interesting copy of this early London edition of the Beza New Testament. The interleaved example, bound in two volumes, has received striking (and illuminating) interventions, including a binding with a noted pictorial binding stamp, and annotations of Robert Humpston (d. 1606), the Protestant Bishop of Down and Connor (1602-1606) who was previously minister in Norfolk, Cheshire and to the English garrison of Carrickfergus (County Antrim). There are annotations of another owner from same time, one W. Holland (otherwise unidentified); there is also a later annotator, writing and citing extensively on philological issues, c.1660. The item with its accretions - including the binding stamp - illustrates Renaissance emblematics and its relation to print culture; note-taking on the Bible in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period; and seventeenth-century Bible scholarship. 1. To each cover is an oval gilt stamp, 4.1 cms. x 3.3 cms., featuring a pelican facing to left, in her piety, feeding her young, with motto surrounding, “Love kepeth the law obeyeth the King and is good to the comente”. The image and motto (ending “comon welthe” not “comente”), can be found in a printer’s device, variants of which were used in London by the Eton and Cambridge alumnus the printer and bookseller Richard Jugge (c.1514-1577), and his widow Joan (d. 1588), and subsequently by the bookseller and bibliographer Andrew Maunsell (c.1560-c.1604); and in Edinburgh by Alexander Arbuthnet (d.1585) and subsequently Thomas Finlason (see McKerrow 123, 125, 225, 228). There are eight other volumes known with this binding stamp, and one with a variant of it (see A.R.A. Hobson in Note 291, ‘The Book Collector’ 16 (1967), 509-510; David Pearson in Query 379, ibid., 38/3 (1989), 407-409). The present is a new example to add to the list. These bindings with pelican stamp have been dated to the late 1580s. Despite the similarity of the stamp to the printer’s devices, these are not believed to be trade bindings on grounds including that no one title is bound more than once and that no works published by the putative sellers have the binding. Six of the total nine listed by Hobson and Pearson were located in 1989, in Cambridge (UL(2), Peterhouse and Emmanuel), the Bodleian, and (with subsequent ownership of Horace Walpole), Lewis Walpole Library, CT. It may be useful to examine these copies (and any that have been located since) for comparable signs to ours of reading and ownership, or for evidence concerning binder. 2. and 3. Some 42 pages with notes dating to c.1590-1606, with signatures of W. Holland and “Robert Humston”, the second whom we identify as the notable prelate. In these early hands there are also notes to front inside cover of vol. 2 and some 20 pages of printed text with marginalia. The two owners add different but comparable mottos, perhaps designed to complement each other, Holland, “synne sowethe sorowe”, and Humston, “sinne seedethe shame”. The notes are in Latin and English. They include rhetorical analysis, introductions to authors (St. Matthew, St. Paul), and commentary broadly combining summary of content with discussion of theology. At vol. 2, f.f.e.p. recto and verso, there is discussion of the Catholic view of absolution. Holland’s ownership may predate Humpston’s, as his name features with motto at the top of the title-page (the name subsequently crossed out), with Humpston’s name and motto below (in the second vol., Holland’s motto is found to recto of front free endpaper, with again his name and motto to first page of text, while Humpston’s does not appear). Holland was not only perhaps a friend of Humpston, but from the closeness of dating, we can suggest may have been connected to the commissioning of the pelican bindings. The family of Thomas Holland (d.1612), the King James Bible translator, included people with name William (amongst them Thomas Holland’s father), but we have not been able to make a positive identification. The annotations to the book are potentially a valuable addition to the intellectual biography of Bishop Humpston, for whom “the lack of extant papers makes it very difficult to assess his episcopate” (ODNB). Possibly of Oxford University (he was “master of arts, but whether of this university I cannot tell” (Wood)), he was author of a sermon, given in Norfolk, which was published in London in 1589 (ESTC S104324). “His Calvinist leanings likely encouraged his departure [...] for Ireland, where the established church tended much more in that direction, and [...] Humston was connected with the subjugation of Ulster and the associated attempts at establishing the reformed Church of Ireland there” (ODNB) In the letters of recommendation written for his promotion to the bishopric, he was praised for his learning (ibid.) The present notes and annotations are overall a good general illustration of learning and pious reading by English Calvinists c.1600. 4. Coming from a more broadly Anglican rather than Calvinist source are anonymous later philological notes (c.1660) found throughout the book. In main part these consist of citations according to an alphanumerical system. The writer may be referring to a notebook or notebooks in their possession. Alongside the letters and numbers, the writer gives a considerable list of authorities, many of whom can be identified. We note, in alphabetical order, citations of Dr. Andrewes (prob. Lancelot Andrewes), Baylie, Dr. Boile (prob. Robert Boyle), Cecill, Cluett, Conway, Cropley, Curle, Denison, Etherige, Fearne, Flemming, Foster, Garbutt, Dr. Godwin, Greenwood, Grouse, (prob.) Isaacson, Hanger, Harries, Hayward, Hickson, Holdsworth, Holmes, Horsman, Hunt, Hutton, Jackson, James, Jeffreys, Love, Lucy, Maxey, Osbolston (probably William Osbaldeston), Ostler, Peterson, Porter, Potter, Powel, Price/Pryse, Raymond, Rudston, Scarlett, Scott, Senhouse, Sibs, Simpson, Smith, Skelton, Stanhopp, Stearne, Sutton, Thornton, Turner, Twisse, Watkins, Wetherill, Willett, Woodford, and Wren (probably Matthew Wren (1585-1667), bishop of Ely). There are also considerable notes taken from Hugo Grotius (probably his ‘Annotationes in Novum Testamentum’), and some from Henry Hammond, ‘A letter of resolution to six quaeres’ (1653). STC (2nd ed.) 2804, ESTC S102462. Mihail Dafydd Evans, ‘Robert Humston [Humpston], Robert (d.1606), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online), published 23 September 2004, accessed 7 May 2019. Anthony à Wood, ‘Athenae Oxonienses’, ed. Philip Bliss (2 vols., London, 1813-20), II, 845." Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd D9303, 2019-05-16, email quote. Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
271188