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8°. Size 6| X 4J inches. Black letter, except from * 2 to * 7. * i^ Titlepage.
* i^ blank. *2'->(=4'', 6 pages, "Aende E. E. VVyse Ende Voorsienige
Heeren, ."
. . . ^i^ $^-^7% 6 pi^ges, " Den seer wi-nemenden,Ifoog/!en ende Mac/itighen
Prince lacobo ."
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*8^-*5|=4S 9 pages, ^' Aen den Godlsalighen ende
Ckristelijcken Leser." * * 4", '^T'boecks endt dit schrift der Beeste, ,en bidt dat syt
noteere,\ Op dat sy haer (difs fmeeste) sooH moghelijck is bekeere,\" followed by 28
lines. First Table wanting. Al^-F5^, pp. 1-89, " Het eerste ende inleydende Tractaet
oftehandelinghe . . . .".the 36 propositions and the " ^ar/jy^ " or conclusion. Second
Table wanting. F5^Aa4^, pp. 90-376, " ffet tweede ende voornaemste Tractaet,
doer in (achter volghende de voorgaende gront-reden) fgheheele Apocalipsis ofte Openbaringhe
des Apostels loannis, op Paraphrastischer wijse wtgeleydt, ende op Historischer
wijse ende nae de tijden der gheschiedenissen toe-gheeyghent irvordt : Verciert met aenvvijsinghen
op elcke duysiere plaetse, ende met Argimient op elck Capittel." Aa5^-Aa8\
pp. 377-383, "Aen den Leser, wien dit merck mishaeghi."
Vier Harmonien,
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Overeen-stemmin- |ghen over de
Openbaringe loannis, |betreffende het Coninclijck, Priesterlijck,
ende Prophetisch ampt lesu Christi.|Vervatende 00c ten deele
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de Prophe- 1 tien ende Christelijcke Historien, van de gheboorte
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lesu Christi af, tot het eynde der VVeereldt toe, sonder|ontbrekinghe
der ghesichten. |T'samen-ghestelt, Greorgivm
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Thomson,|Schots-man.|Nu nieuvvelijcks wt de Fransche tale
verduyscht.|Door G. Panneel.| M. DC. VII.
Bbi^, Title-page. Bbi^, blank. Bb2i-Bb3^ 4 pages, " Voorreden." signed " Greorgivs
Thomsson." . Bb4^-Dd2'', 29 pages, contain the Vier harmonien. Dd2*-
Dd4'', 5 pages, " Tafel vande principaelste materien die int geheele Boec verhandelt
werden soo in de Propositien als in de Aenwijsinghen achter yder CapitteV At the
foot of the last page (Dd4^) is printed: " Tot Middelbvrch,\ Ghedruckt by Symon
Moulert, Boeck-vercooper,
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woonende op den Dam, inde Druckerije. Anno 1607.
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Signatures. * in eight -1- * * in four + A to Z and Aa to Cc in eights+Dd in four
=224 leaves.
Paging. 24-1-383 numbered -fl -^ 40 = 448 pages.
Errors in Paging. Pages 143, 187, 269, and 308 numbered in error 144, 189, 270,
and 208 respectively.
On comparing this edition with that of 1600, we find that the address
To the Mislyking Reader is now given, and there is also added a
translation of the Quatre Harmonies, from the French editions of
1603 et seq. Further, we find, besides the usual differences in spelling,
occasional alterations in the translation. For example, compare the
wording, &c., in signatures * * 4^ and Y^ of the above collation with
that corresponding in the signatures * * 4^ and Aa2i of the collation of
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