Microbiblion or The Bibles epitome: in verse : Digested according to the alphabet, that the Scriptures we reade may more happily be remembred, and things forgotten more easily recalled
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Type of record: Book
Title: Microbiblion or The Bibles epitome: in verse : Digested according to the alphabet, that the Scriptures we reade may more happily be remembred, and things forgotten more easily recalled
Classmark: BC Lt d/WAS
Creator(s): Wastell, Simon (1632)
Additional creator(s): Wastell, Simon (1632) (Other); Shaw, John (1559-1625) (Other)
Related people: Wastell, Simon; Shaw, John
Publisher: Printed [by Miles Flesher] for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greyhound in Paules Churchyard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1629
Language: English
Size and medium: [12], 506, [8] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273359
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018432779705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Second enlarged edition of Wastell's translation of John Shaw's "Biblia Summa". Old Testament entirely recast, New Testament reprinted from first edition.
In verse.
Two poems at end: "Upon the image of death", usually attributed to Robert Southwell, and "Of mans mortalitie", sometimes assigned to Francis Quarles.
Printer's name from STC.
The paraphrase of the Old Testament is a different, longer text from that in Wastell's "A true Christians daily delight"; first line of Genesis is "At first Iehovah with his word,". The New Testament text is unchanged.
"A true Christians daily delight" has separate title page; register and pagination are continuous.
With four final leaves of verse.
The last leaf is blank.
Based on: Shaw, John. Biblii summula.
Microbiblion.
STC (2nd ed.) 25102.
Additional description
Lacking last leaf, blank. Inscription on verso of title-page: George: Starkey: His: Book: July: the: 30th: day: 1696: cost: 8d . On title-page, signature of Lyonell Tollemache, earl of Dysart, 1649-1727 on verso of title-leaf, stamp of his library, Helmingham Hall
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