tHis day is callyd the first sonday of aduent, that is the sonday in cristys comyng
Subtitle: Therfore holy chirche this day maketh mencion of ij comynges ...
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 14:3.
Publisher: Enprynted by wylliam Caxton at westmestre
Published: 1483
Place of publication: [[Westminster]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.; Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.; Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Liber festivalis and Quatuor sermones.; This day is callyd the first sonday of advent, that is the sonday in cristys comyng.; Mayster of sentence in the second booc and the first dystynction.; He deyed on the crosse and been al blody and the spere the scourges.; Mayster of sentence in the second book and the first distynction.; Lay folks' catechism.; Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge.
Work titles: Festial
Notes: By John Mirk.

An edition of: Liber festivalis.

Imprint from colophon, part 2.

Signatures: a-n o-p⁶; a-c d⁶.

The first leaf is blank.

Secundo folio: he deyed on the crosse and been al blody and the spere the scourges ..

Part 1 colophon reads: Enprynted at westmynster by wyllyam Caxton the laste day of Iuyn anno domini M CCCC Lxxxiij.

"Quattuor sermones" has separate register; text begins "[T³]He mayster of sentence in the second book and the first distynction, sayth that the souerayn cause, why god made al creatures in heuen erthe or water, was his oune goodnes ..". The text is "an expanded paraphrase of a mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire devotional compendium known as the 'Lay folks' catechism' or 'Sermon of Dan John Gaytryge'" (Needham, p. 67).

There are two editions of part 2: text begins (1) as above, or (2) with "booc .. dystynction .. henen [sic]". Needham (p. 67-8) believes edition 1 was first printed as a separate in late 1482 to early 1483, and was later issued with the "Liber festivalis". The second edition was printed in 1487, apparently for issue with the remaining copies of the other part. For further distinctions between the two editions see "Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer", p. 407-25.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Only Part 1 filmed.

STC (2nd ed.) 17957.

Duff 298, 299.

Hain 7029.

Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 54, 65, 85.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1938. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 14:3).