Lot 639
Manuscript bible commentary
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Trãc. De. Dõ. Uõ. Dspão. Prõals. De. Tlgio. necessitate p priabus et objectd.., eighteenth-century bible commentary, brown ink, same hand throughout, Latin text, some Greek, 24-31 lines, 8vo, pages 1-554 (543-546 missing), in older vellum binding, some underlining, binding slightly soiled; [English epitaphs] Manuscript collection of English epitaphs, inscribed John Frize His Book Was Made the 29th day of October Anno. Dom 1745, oblong 8vo, 84 pages, old boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, some light soiling of text (2)
Footnote
Note: Eighteenth-century bible commentary, summary of the saints and history of the church and reformation in England, with references to Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Charles II, Miles Coverdale, Zwingli and others.
John Frize may have been a gravestone stonemason as a number of the epitaphs are marked as "old man's verse", "young woman's verse" &c. and on the endpaper there are precise measurements for headstones. John Frize has added his own quatrain for posterity:
"This Little Book my name shall have
When I am Dead and Laid in grave
When Greedy worms have Eaten me
then here you all my name shall see"