Renaissance English Translations of Erasmus: A Bibliography to 1700

E.J. Devereux. Renaissance English Translations of Erasmus : A Bibliography to 1700. University of Toronto Press. 1983. Pp. xii-212. £ 29.50. Can. $ 45.50.

LE coût de cette monographie, qui sans aucun doute frappera les lecteurs, tient moins à la robuste élégance de la couverture qu'à l'extrême complexité de la typographie. Une demie page décrivant V Enchiridion de 1548 (p. 111) donnera une idée des problèmes techniques qu'a posés la seule mise en page et du temps qu'a dû prendre la seule lecture des épreuves.

16: ENCHIRIDION MILITIS CHR1STIANI 111

y hanfome | weapon of a Chryften 1 knyght, replenyfhed with | many goodlye and godiye | préceptes made by the fa= | mus clearke Erafmus | of Roterdame, and! newly corrected | and impryn | ted. | Cum priuilcgio ad impri= | mendum folum.

Colophon: * : Here en= I dethe this booke called I Enchiridion, or the manuell of a 1 Chryften knight, made by Erafmus I of Roterdame, in the which boke is | conteyned many godly leffons, ve | ry neceffary and profytable for | the foule helth of al true | chriften people. | * * * | * Imprynted at London in Flete | Urete at the Sygne of the George | next to faynt Dunftons church by I Wyllyam Powel. In the yere | of our lord God. M.D. | xlviii. The xxv. | day e of Octo= | ber. | * Cum priuilegio ad impri= | mendum folum.

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HT] * A COMPENDYOVS 1 TREATYSE OF THE SOV | dyour of Chryft, called Enchi= I ridion, Whiche Erafmus of | Roterdame wrote...