Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Image Details:
digital composite of two images
Source Creator:
Frith, John, 1503-1533.
Source Title:
Vox piscis: or, The book-fish contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eue last, anno Domini 1626.
Source Created or Published:
[1627]
Physical Description:
frontis and title page
Source Call Number:
STC 11395 copy 3
Digital Image File Name:
64322
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
159455
Hamnet Holdings ID:
151378
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Frith, John, 1503-1533.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Fountayne or well of lyfe.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Of the preparation to the Crosse, and to deathe.
Title (Hamnet):
Vox piscis: or, The book-fish contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eue last, anno Domini 1626.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Book-fish
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Preparation to the Crosse and to death
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Mirrour, or, glasse to know thy selfe
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Briefe instruction, to teach a person willingly to die, and not to feare death
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Treasure of knovvledge
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Treasure of knowledge
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
Printed [by Humphrey Lownes, John Beale, and Augustine Mathewes] for Iames Boler and Robert Milbourne,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
M.DC.XXVII. [1627]
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[4], 43, [1]; 237 [i.e. 239], [13]; [18], 47, [9], 127, [3]; [8], 180, [4] p. : ill. ; 12⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
HH91/17. MS. notes: bibliographical notes on slip tipped in at front and on front free endpaper, the latter headed by: 'W. D. Macray 22. Feb. 1855'. Imperfect: Parts 1 and 2 only, wanting sigs. [superscript pi]A1, and ¹L6 (blank at end of part 2: 'Preparation'); [superscript pi]A1 (frontis. ill. of unopened fish) replaced by sig. ¹A1 (ill. of opened fish) of pt.2; sig. [superscript pi]A2 (t.p.) mounted; copy badly stained and frayed. Provenance: pasted inside front cover is clipping identified as from the Scottish Ecclesiastical Guardian, 31 Aug. 1901, which relates the story of another cod with interesting innards, this one had swallowed a copy of the burial service for a funeral in 1884; W.D. Macray - Harmsworth copy.
Notes (Hamnet):
Attributed as a whole to John Frith in part 1, which is sometimes attributed to Thomas Goad. Part 2, "The preparation to the Crosse and to death", is a reprint of "Of the preparation to the Crosse, and to deathe", 1540 (STC 11393), translated by and sometimes attributed to Richard Tracy as well as to Frith. Part 3, "A mirrour, or, glasse to know thy selfe" and "A briefe instruction, to teach a person willingly to die, and not to feare death", is a reprint of Frith's "A letter wryten unto the faythful folowers of Christes Gospell" (1548-49? STC 11385.5). Part 4, "The treasure of knowledge", is a revision of the anonymous "The fountayne or well of lyfe" (STC 11211), not by Frith.
Notes (Hamnet):
Parts 2-4 each have separate dated title page (parts 3,4 dated 1626), pagination, and register; that to part 2 identifies John Beale as the printer. Within part 3, "A briefe instruction" also has separate dated title page and pagination, but the register is continuous.
Notes (Hamnet):
Part 4 formerly also STC 24198.
Notes (Hamnet):
"Lownes pr[inted]. pts. 1, 3 .. Mathewes pt. 4"--STC.
Notes (Hamnet):
Part 2, p. 239 misnumbered 237.
Notes (Hamnet):
P. 178-180 are blank except for marginal rules and pagination; the two last leaves are blank as reported by Folger.
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: [superscript pi]A-B¹² A-K¹² L⁶, ²A-H¹² I⁶, ³A-H¹².
Notes (Hamnet):
Part 4 identified as STC 24198 on UMI microfilm reel 1085.
Notes (Hamnet):
Stationer's Register: Entered 13 September 1626.
Notes (Hamnet):
Copy 1. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Lost at Sea. DFo
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.), 11395
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) S102646
Subject (Hamnet):
Annotations (Provenance)
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Beale, John, d. 1643, printer.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Tracy, Richard, d. 1569.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Frith, John, 1503-1533.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 11395 Copy 3

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