Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    added to the same, very necessarie and profitable for all them that ryghte assuredly vnderstande not y® latine and greke tongues. Colophon. Imprynted at London in Fletestrete by lohn Byddell, dwellynge at the signe of the Sonne, nexte to the cundite, for wylliam Marshall, the yere of our lorde god M.D .XXXV, the xvi. day of lune, quarto. The second edition of the first reformed Primer, commonly known as Marshall’s Primer, as all the editions are printed for William Marshall, the reputed compiler. This edition is considerably enlarged from the first edition in octavo of 1534, the Litany of the Saints and other matter being added. On the titlepage is a wood- cut of the arms of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn impaled, with the letters H A. This copy, which is printed on vellum, was pur- chased at the third Ashburnham sale in 1898, NEW TESTAMENT. [The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke, by Willyam Tindale.] OCTAVO. A large fragment of an otherwise unknown edition, printed at Antwerp, and with the same peculiarities of spelling (faether, broether, maey, etc.) which are found in the octavo of 1535. It may be noted that similar spellings occur in a letter written to his brother by Thomas Poyntz, in whose house Tindale lived at Antwerp. Besides this unique Tindale fragment, three Coverdale Testaments have been acquired, two of them apparently from the press of James Nycolson at Southwark in 1538, and the third, which may belong either to that or the following year, printed by Matthew Crom at Antwerp. Like most New Testaments of this date, all three are imperfect; the imperfections in each case un- happily including the titlepage. Bought in 1898. BROTBEYHEL, Matthias. A Pronostycacyon practysed by master Mathias Brothyel of Rauensburgh. Anno. 1545. Excudebat Londini Ricardus Graftonus clarissimi Principis Edouardi tipographus. quarto. This Prognostication was ‘wrytten for the pleasure of the moost noble prynce and lorde, lorde Frederyke countye Palatine