Bishop Hugh Latimer's copy.- Spiera (Francesco) Quiquod susceptam semel Evangelice veritatis
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Oxford Martyr’s copy.- Spiera (Francesco) Quiquod susceptam semel Evangelice veritatis professione abnegasset, damnassetque, in horrendam incidit desperationem, Historia, collation: ?8 a-m8, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, ?8 blank, title frayed at outer and lower margins, affecting inscription at foot, ?2&3 and last few ff. frayed at lower corners, h3 outer margin trimmed away, final f. mounted on stub, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, 18th century calf-backed dark blue boards, gilt spine in compartments and with double red morocco labels and a later paper label at foot, lower cover detached, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (155 x 95mm.), [Basel], [Johann Oporinus], [1550].
*** One of only two books known from the library of Bishop Hugh Latimer (c.1487-1555), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the stake, becoming one of the Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism (ink inscription at foot of title presenting the volume to him (with loss)).
Francesco Spiera (1502-1548) was an Italian Protestant jurist. He became interested in Calvinism in 1542 and opened his home in Padua as a meeting place for Italian and foreign Protestants. He was called before the Inquisition in Venice in 1548 and abjured his views. It is said he later died of despair from so doing. His death made him something of a cause célèbre in the Protestant world, giving rise to numerous printed tracts.
Provenance: Bishop Hugh Latimer; ‘G B 7/19’ (early ink inscription to foot of final verso); Andrew Gifford (1700-1784), Baptist Church minister in Bristol, and assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1757 (large engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Robert S. Pirie, sold Sotheby’s, 2015, lot 971.
Literature: Adams S1605 (without ‘Basileae MDL’ at foot of title); cf. VD 16 F 1979 (with ‘Basileae MDL’ at foot of title).
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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***
Oxford Martyr’s copy.- Spiera (Francesco) Quiquod susceptam semel Evangelice veritatis professione abnegasset, damnassetque, in horrendam incidit desperationem, Historia, collation: ?8 a-m8, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, ?8 blank, title frayed at outer and lower margins, affecting inscription at foot, ?2&3 and last few ff. frayed at lower corners, h3 outer margin trimmed away, final f. mounted on stub, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, 18th century calf-backed dark blue boards, gilt spine in compartments and with double red morocco labels and a later paper label at foot, lower cover detached, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (155 x 95mm.), [Basel], [Johann Oporinus], [1550].
*** One of only two books known from the library of Bishop Hugh Latimer (c.1487-1555), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the stake, becoming one of the Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism (ink inscription at foot of title presenting the volume to him (with loss)).
Francesco Spiera (1502-1548) was an Italian Protestant jurist. He became interested in Calvinism in 1542 and opened his home in Padua as a meeting place for Italian and foreign Protestants. He was called before the Inquisition in Venice in 1548 and abjured his views. It is said he later died of despair from so doing. His death made him something of a cause célèbre in the Protestant world, giving rise to numerous printed tracts.
Provenance: Bishop Hugh Latimer; ‘G B 7/19’ (early ink inscription to foot of final verso); Andrew Gifford (1700-1784), Baptist Church minister in Bristol, and assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1757 (large engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); Robert S. Pirie, sold Sotheby’s, 2015, lot 971.
Literature: Adams S1605 (without ‘Basileae MDL’ at foot of title); cf. VD 16 F 1979 (with ‘Basileae MDL’ at foot of title).
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