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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
ESTC number: R21811
Wing number: B3418
Folger call number: 197- 738q
Folger holdings ID: 350318
Accession Number: 197738
Notes
Bibliographic format
quarto
General notes
Frontispiece is portrait of John Sparrow Each treatise has its own title page and separate paging, with imprint: London, Printed by M.S. for L. Lloyd [or Lodowick Lloyd], 1661. "M.S." is presumably Mary Simmons, who printed another work for Lloyd; see ESTC R208771 Signatures: [superscript pi]A-B⁴ B-2S⁴ 2T² Pagination: [20], 79, [1]; [2], 12; [2], 75, [1]; [2], 15, [1]; 48; [2], 38; [2], 23, [1]; [2], 12, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates "A catalogue of Jacob Behme's book printed in English": 2 p. at end Errata leaf: [superscript pi]B3 Also available on microfilm and as a digital reproduction
Contents
(from title page) I. A book of the great six points : as also a small book of other six points -- II. The 177 theosophick questions ... -- II. Of the earthly and of the heavenly mystery -- IV. The Holy-week, or a prayer-book -- V. Of divine vision
Item information about Folger 197- 738q
Autograph: Teynham. Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: Spes mea in Deo), probably for the Teynham family. Minor manuscript annotations on S2 and 2Q2. In tree calf binding with gold filleting, black spine labels, speckled edges, and marbled endpapers. Purchased from L.W. Bondy 10 March 1967
Also known as
Extended title: Several treatises of Jacob Behme : not printed in English before, according to the catalogue here following ... : to which are annexed the exposition of the table of the three principles : also an epistle of the knowledge of God, and of all things, and of the true and false light : with a table of the revelation of the divine secret mystery / englished by John Sparrow
Related names
associated with: Sparrow, John, 1615-1670?
bookseller: Lloyd, Lodowicke, active 1635-1674
printer: Simmons, Mary, active 1654-1671
former owner: Teynham, d. not before 1661