The praise of folie. = Moriae encomium : a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight..
Erasmus, Desiderius,-1536.
Chaloner, Thomas,Sir,1521-1565.
Leslie, Andrew,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Stewart, Thomas,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Stewart, John,active 1580,former owner.StEdNL
Anderson, John,16th century-17th century,former owner.StEdNL
Macdonald, William Bell,1807-1862,former owner.StEdNL
[London : by T. Powell],
Anno. M.D.XLIX. [1549, i.e. 1557?]]
Translation of: Moriae encomium.
Place of publication from colophon; actual date of publication from STC.
Title page has printer's initials "T.P." below border.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno. M.D.LXIX
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-T⁴.
Note "latyne" in title; catchword, B1v: him.
Poem in early, unidentified hand, of which the beginning of each line is cropped, written on verso of title leaf: Spair not o spreit to speid thy Sepultuir / W]t constan[t] cato to vndo thy clair / ..]. Sophonisba say ze adventuir / ..]. to abayt thy bondage in dispair / ..]. velcwme daithe the salew of ze sair / ..]te vyse diogenes of grecia / Th]et ze exemple of zi end be raire / A]s did ze virgins of melesia / So long I murnit in melencholie / Speiking alone vnto my Sep it spreit / [Q]uhill fyrie phebus for serenitie / [D]id calme the vesterne vonds vt halsum heit / Seiking ze southe thet none byd to compleit / Seiking ze northe poll vt his golden Raye / [S]a did his bemis betuix my browis beit / That sone asslep I fell q as I lay. On the verso of [superscript pi]4: Quhat gud dois moss set heiche [and muir] vpon ane montane / Quhat gud dois floris frosin in ane funtane / Quhat gud dois yowthe or set wt miserie / Thy barrane treis of liberalitie / As vastit wod wt vormes veneriall / grows in ye wilderness of skarsitie / Quhar is no grace rests to in gudis martiall.
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STC (2nd ed.)
With the early provenances of several Scottish owners on recto and verso of title page: Andrew Leslie, Rector of Oyne from about 17 September 1566 (Reg. Sec. Sig. vol. V no. 3060) until his death before 4 July 1571 (ibid., vol. VI no 1198; of Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, vol. 8, p. 570, where he is wrongly named Alexander) who wrote "Liber mag[ist]ri Andree Leslie Rectoris de vne 1569" twice, both deleted, the first without date, on the verso of the title page, "Liber mag[ist]ri Andree Leslie Rectoris de Vne anno 1569" in the outher margin of T2 verso and "Mag[iste]r Andreae Leslie Rector de vne meus est herus [deleted and partly erased] and griefe to Spaire to sie" partly erased on T3 verso. Thomas Stewart wrote "This buik pertenis to Maister Thomas Stewarte" on the title page and verso, and "Mr Thomas Stewart Manu propria" twice on verso. John Stewart wrote "M Jonne Steuart 1580" on title page. John Anderson who wrote his name at head of the title in an apparently early 17th-century hand. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Rammerscales.
Folly
England London.