The pageant of popes
Subtitle: contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of grace 1555 : deuided into iii sortes, bishops, archbishops, and popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in two bookes, and the third sort in fiue, in the vvhich is manifestlye shevved the beginning of Antichriste and increasing to his fulnesse, and also the vvayning of his povver againe, accordinge to the prophecye of Iohn in the Apocalips : shewing manye straunge, notorious, outragious and tragicall partes, played by them the like vvhereof hath not els bin hearde, both pleasant the profitable for this age
By: written in Latin by Maister Bale ; and now Englished with sondrye additions by I.S.
Contributors: Studley, John, 1545?-1590?; Marsh, Thomas, fl. 1554-1587, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Thomas Marshe
Published: 1574
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.; Popes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of "Alexander Young, writer."
STC (2nd ed.) 1304
Place of publication and printer from colophon.
Signatures: *a-*e⁴ A-2B⁸.
Error in foliation: 99 skipped in the numbering.
LC copy imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting.