Printed book: Part of Laurence Tomson's version of the New Testament

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Arch G. e. 48 (Former reference: MS. e Mus. 242)

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Printed book: Part of Laurence Tomson's version of the New Testament (Barker ? 1578).

Dates

Creation: Barker ? 1578

Extent

1 volume

Language of Materials

English

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Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. e Mus. 242, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

Arch G. e. 48 (Former reference: MS. e Mus. 242)

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 18276

Additional Description

Abstract

Printed book: Part of Laurence Tomson's version of the New Testament

Biographical / Historical

Laurence Tomson (1539-1608) was an administrator.

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. II, no. 3701

Custodial History

The binding, in black cloth, embroidered in silver thread by queen Elizabeth about 1579, has: '[C]elum patria scopus vitae Christus, Christus via', and other mottoes. Both covers have also 'E' for queen Elizabeth, to whom the book belonged, according to a 17th-cent. note beneath an autograph passage from Augustine: beg. 'I walke many times'. See further Macray, Annals of the Bodleian, p. 67, and W. Salt Brassington, Historic Bindings, pl. 14 and notes.

Manuscript acquired by the Bodleian Library (235)