Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum, hoc est, Angliae, Cambriae, ac ScotiÆ summariu[m], in quasdam centurias diuisum, cum diuersitate doctrinaru[m] atq[ue] annoru[m] recta supputatione per omnes Ætates a Iapheto sanctissimi Noah filio, ad annum domini. M.D.XLVIII. Autore Ioanne Balaeo Sudouolca.
Bale, John,1495-1563.
Swift, Robert,1534?-1599,former owner.StEdNL: Jac.I.3.1
[Gippeswici in Anglia [i.e. Wesel] : Per [D. van der Straten for] Ioannem Ouerton,
[31 July 1548]
Includes index.
Purported place of publication and printer's name from colophon (leaf 248); title page imprint reads "Excudebatur praesens opus, anno a natiuitate unicÆ illius pro peccatis uictimÆ, patri in crucem oblatÆ, quadragesimo octauo supra millesimum & quingentesimum, pridie calendas Augusti." The imprint and colophon are false; actual printer's name and place of publication from STC.
Same typesetting as STC 1296, with the title page imprint reset.
Variant: the colophon is omitted.
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ [cross]⁴ [cross]2⁴ A-3R⁴ 3S⁴(-3S4).
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Deleted manuscript inscription on the title page, apparently "Rob. Swifti Johannensis et amicorum suorum [...] Sep 9 1585". This is presumably the signature of the Robert Swift who graduated BA at St. John's College Cambridge in 1585. The title page also has the Faculty's accession date "Ex Libris Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae Edinburgi 1714". There are manuscript annotations in an apparently late 16th century hand throughout.
English literature
Authors, English