The text of 'The Fift Booke' of Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
The text of 'The Fift Booke' of Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, the 'copy 'used for the printing of the first edition published in 1597, bearing some corrections in Hooker's own hand but otherwise written by a clerk: the signature of archbp. John Whitgift authorizing publication is on fol. 1.
(fols. 140-1 and 228) are in different hands from the rest.
A note presumably by the London printer, John Windet, is on fol. 226v.
228 leaves foliated to '231'. A leaf is missing after fol. 147 and after fol. 206.
On fol. 229v is a representation (early 17th century) of a 'tobaca 'pipe.
Dates
- Creation: written in about 1595-1597
Extent
228 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Add. C. 165, fols. 1-2]
Shelfmark:
MS. Add. C. 165
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 18824
Abstract
The text of 'The Fift Booke' of Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, written in about 1595-1597.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) was a theologian and philosopher.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 29143.
Custodial History
'Margrat Keynes' (17th century) is on fol. 173v, cf. 48v.
A letter from Mary M. Morison dated June 2, 1886, is at fol. i, and states that her father acquired the volume from the rev. William Woolston of Adderbury (d. 1817).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought from mrs. Mary M. Morison on Dec. 14, 1878, with Arch. Bodl. A. II. 63, for £20.
Bibliography
- In the 2nd volume of Hooker's Works, ed. by Keble, 7th ed. (1888) is a facsimile of fol. 111r, showing Hooker's hand as well as the copyist's.
Physical Facet
On paper
Dimensions
13 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.
Topical
Creator
- Title
- The text of 'The Fift Booke' of Richard Hooker's 'Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2020 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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