April 27, 2020
In this rare book video chat, I’ll share a 17th century English Everlasting Almanac. It sheds light on how the complex calculations for the date of Easter are connected with the history of Computers.
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March 30, 2020
The rare book gallery is closed this week because of Covid-19 shutdowns, so I will discuss at home the ultimate “Homeschooling” book – a 1579 copy of Roger Ascham’s “The Scholemaster.” He was the tutor of the young Princess – and future Queen Elizabeth I. I’ll value this rare book and discuss its importance as an early work of progressive instruction. Additionally, the author was an early proponent of female education. So, if you have Zoom classes and remote learning going on for the kids right now, you might as well throw in some Royal education.
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November 30, 2010
A foundation for the legalization of divorce in England.
The Book:
[Thomas Cranmer; Walter Haddon; John Cheke, Sir; England and Wales. Commissioners on Revision of the Ecclesiastical Laws, 1550-1552.] Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum : Ex Authoritate primum Regis Henrici. 8. inchoata: Deinde per Regem Edovardum 6. provecta, adauctaque in hunc modum, atque nunc ad pleniorem ipsarum reformationem in lucem aedita. Ex officina Johannis Daij: Londini, 1571. [10], 149, [3] leaves. small 4to., 19 x 14 cm., Original vellum boards.,spine renewed, endpapers renewed, some dampstaining (most visible on the lower part of the first 10 nunmbered leaves) and diminishing thereafter , some occasional old faint stains throughout. Generally, Very Good and COMPLETE. VERY RARE. [SOLD]
This very rare book is a fundamental work of the English Reformation. It was drawn up in 1552 by Commissioners headed by Thomas Cranmer, and published for the first time in 1571 with the later additions and amendments of Matthew Parker, by John Fox, the martyrologist. It was in part a codification that justified Henry’s earlier divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which resulted in the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. It notably provided a foundation for the the legalization of divorce whereby it established that marriage was not a sacrament, and that an innocent person might again marry in the case of adultery, absolute desertion, protracted absence, mortal enmities, or, cruelty. Due to the death of Edward VI, it was never officially enacted, but it did enjoy unofficial authority in ecclesiastical courts.
” Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. ” [Wikipedia]
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