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Eikōn basilikē : the pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings : together with his private prayers used in the time of his restraint and delivered to Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death

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Type of record: Book

Title: Eikōn basilikē : the pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings : together with his private prayers used in the time of his restraint and delivered to Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death

Other titles: Eikōn basilikē; Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol/EIK

Additional creator(s): Charles king of England (1600-1649) (Other); Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662) (Other)

Related people: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Charles; Gauden, John

Publisher: [printed by Roger Daniel]

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): 1649

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 263 p., [1] folded leaf of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287709

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002460049705181

Description

First two words of title in Greek characters.


Authorship of the Eikon basilike was originally attributed to Charles I, but according to Madan (pp. 125-33) it was written by John Gauden who probably included some authentic writings of the king.


Place of publication suggested by Wing.


Includes frontispiece, with explanation in Latin and English and Greek quotation at foot.


Page 93 misnumbered 39.


Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings.


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) E307; Almack 43; Madan 25.

Additional description

Frontispiece and portrait of king misbound in each other's place. With inscriptions recording the gift of the book by Andrew Cooper to John Kyle (on title-page), and Willian Lovat to Jane Baddiley, 1718 (on portrait of the king). Signatures, dated 1787, of Ricd. Lang, of Stoke Park, on flyleaf and inside back cover. The gift of F.F. Madan. Deposited from the Brotherton Library

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