Shelfmark
Fi.8.21
Title
Historia uera: de uita, obitu, sepultura, accusatione hæreseos, condemnatione, exhumatione, combustione, honorificaq[ue] tandem restitutione beatorum atque doctiss. theologorum, D. Martini Buceri & Pauli Fagij, quæ intra annos XII. in Angliæ regno accidit. Item historia Catharinae Vermiliae, D. Petri Martyris Vermilij castiss. atque pijssimæ coniugis, exhumatæ, eiusdemq[ue] ad honestam sepulturam restitutæ. Cum orationibus, concionib. epitaphijs, uarijsq[ue] encomiasticis carminibus, lectu dignissimis. Omnia paucissimis hactenus uisa.
Varying form of title
Historia vera
Publication, distribution, etc.
Excusum Argentinae : Apud Paulum Machæropœum, sumptibus Iohannis Oporini, Anno M. D. LXI. [1561]
Physical description
[8], 215 [i.e. 219], [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Items collected by Conradus Hubertus (cf. dedicatory letter), including Sir John Cheke's correspondence with Pietro Vermigli and Nicholas Carr concerning Martin Bucer, and James Calfhill on Catherine Vermigli.
Note
Adams describes this as by Sir John Cheke, BM STC German 1455-1600 as by Conradus Hubertus.
Note
Place of publication and printer and publisher's names from colophon.
Note
Numbers 113-116 repeated in foliation only, with first leaf 116 misnumbered 115.
Note
Signatures: a⁸ B-O⁸ P¹² Q-2E⁸ (2E8 blank).
Note
Woodcut initials, marginal notes.
Citation/references note
BM STC German 1455-1600, p.420
Citation/references note
Adams, C1433
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington inside back cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Ms. notes on title page in contemporary hand, unread. Ms. list inside front cover, possibly in same hand: "... a doblet a hatt ...", partly obscured by Eton College bookplate.
Provenance
Ms. motto on title page in another hand: "Caue cui credas: cauendo tutus ..."
Binding
16th-century stiff parchment laced case binding, laced at three sewing supports.
Binding
Curatorial note inside front cover: two leaves of 14th-c. MS Bible taken out.
Copy-specific note
Previously Dk.7.20.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Reformation Germany Early works to 1800.
Subject
Reformation England Early works to 1800.
Subject
Counter-Reformation Germany Early works to 1800.
Subject
Counter-Reformation England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Calfhill, James, 1530? - 1570 Historia de exhumatione Catharinae nuper uxoris doctissimi theologi d. Petri Martyris.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507 - 1568 publisher.
Added entry--name
Messerschmidt, Paul printer.
Added entry--name
Hubert, Conrad, 1507 - 1577 editor.
Added entry--name
Carr, Nicholas, 1524 - 1568 author.
Added entry--name
Cheke, John, 1514 - 1557 Sir, author.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Strasbourg.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B38366