Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An / abridgement / of the booke of acts / and monvmentes of / the chvrch : / Written by that Reuerend Father, Mai- / ster Iohn Fox : and now abridged by Timothe Bright, / Doctor of Phisicke, for such as either thorough / want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the / vse of so necessary an history. / All day long are we counted as sheepe for the slaughter. Psal. 44. / [Woodcut of the Pope seated on a throne in his pontificals slaying a lamb, held by a friar ; dead sheep lying around, in the distance martyrs burning at the stake] / How long Lord, holy and true ? Apocal. Cap. 6, verse 10. / Imprinted at London by I. Windet, at the assignment / of Master Tim. Bright, and are to be sold at Pauls wharf, / at the signe of the Crosse-keyes, 1589. / Cum gratia, 6- Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. 4to., pp. [xvi] + 504 + 288 + [lxiv] (verso of last leaf blank)- ^Uack |Dettcr. On the last page is a woodcut of Time, cutting down a' sheaf of corn with his scythe ; and a clasped Bible bearing the inscription : “ Verbum Dei manet in aeturnum.” At the top of the cut are Elizabeth’s arms, on the right the arms of the City of London, on the left those of the Stationers’ Company, and at the foot Windet’s own sign of the Bear, with the initials I. W. above it, and the motto : “Non solo pane vivit homo : Luke 4.” Colophon : Imprinted at London by I. Windet, at the / assignment of Timothie Bright.” Sig. *18, A-HH8, 114, AA-SS8, TT4, VV8, YY8, ZZ4. Brit. Mus. 'FTXOAOITA : / hoc est, / de hominis / perfectione, ani- / mo, et in primis ortu hujus, / commentationes ac disputationes quorundam / Theologorum & Philosophorum nostrae aeta- / tis, quos versa pagina ostendit. / Philosophies studiosis lectu jucundee &■ utiles. / Recensente / Rodolpho Goclenio, Pro- fessore / in Academia Marpurgensi Philosophico. / [Woodcut of nymph holding anchor, etc.] / Marpvrgi, / Ex Officina Typo- graphica Pauli Egenolphi. / Anno M.D.LXXXX. i2mo., pp. 304. On verso of title is a list of eleven authors whose contributions are printed in the volume, and at pp. 276- 294 : “ Animadversiones Timothei / Brighti Cantabrigiensis, medicinae Doctoris : / De Traduce.” Later editions, 1594 an I 1597. Sig. O-T8 in eights.