| Varying Form of Title: | Liber festivalis and Quatuor sermones.
Afore shall come tokens of grete drede.
Helpe and grace of almyghty god thrugh the besechynge of his blessed moder saynt mari be wyth vs.
Helpe and grace of almyghty god thrugh the besechynge of his blessed moder saynt mari be wyth us.
Mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the souerayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heuen erthe, or water, was his owne godnes.
Mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the soverayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heven erthe, or water, was his owne godnes.
Lay folks' catechism.
Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge.
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| Notes: | By John Mirk.
An edition of "Liber festivalis". The recension, according to Needham (p. 68) is that of STC 17958, not 17957.
Title from a2, column 2.
Colophon, part 1, reads "Caxton me fieri fecit"; his device appears on s6v and the final leaf. Publication date from STC.
Signatures: a-p q² R s⁶; A-C D¹⁰.
The first leaf is blank.
Text begins: The helpe and grace of al- #5FD\ myghty god thrugh the besechyn #5FD\ ge of his blessed moder saynt ma #5FD\ ri be wyth vs ..
a3r text begins: afore shall come tokens of grete drede ..
"Quattuor sermones" has separate register; text begins "T³he mayster of sentence in the seconde boke· and the fyrst dystynction, sayth that the souerayn cause, whi god made all creatures in heuen erthe, or water, was his owne godnes ..". The text is "an expanded paraphrase of a mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire devotional compendium known as the 'Lay folks' catechism' or 'Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge'" (Needham, p. 67).
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
STC (2nd ed.) 17959.
Duff 301-2.
Hain 7028; Copinger 2479.
Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 103, 104.
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
University of Chicago has also on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1947. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 301:02).
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