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issue for 1579 are listed in STC^ but are at
present untraced.
SiS.io. C.i45.f.ii.
* A L A N u S, de Insults. Parabol? Alani cum
comento. In ^dibus VVinandi de Vl'orde,
1525. 4°: A^B^C^.
Originally entitled 'Doctrinale altum, seu liber
parabolarum', this popular collection by the
twelfth-century Flemish theologian Alain de
Lille was published many times in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries. This is the only known
copy of the last of five recorded editions printed
in England. With a schoolmaster woodcut on
the title-page {Hodnett 921).
*MoRNAY, Philippe de. Seigneur du Plessis-
Marly. Christian meditations, vpon the sixt,
twentie fiue, thirtie, and two and thirtie
Psalmes. Written in the French tongue by
Phillip Mornay . . . and moreouer, a medita-
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tion vpon the 137. Psalnie by P. Pilcsson. P.
translated into Englisb, by Iohn Feilde.
Printed by Iohn Wolfe, for I. Uatrison |sic| the
yonger, ["1587?!. 16": #« A^Y" Z\ (fig. enlarged.)
Mornay was an adviser and ambassador of
Henry, King of Navarre, and a devout Protestant,
who, despite Henry's later return to
Roman Catholicism as Henry IV of France,
remained a champion of the Huguenot cause.
These meditations are dedicated to Henry's
sister and the translation is dedicated to the
Countess of Warwick 'from tbe wearisome bed
of my sicknes' by Field, Nonconformist minister
at Wandsworth. The meditation by Pierre
Pilesson or Pellisson, another I'rench Protestant,
is in fact on the 127th Psalm. This is the
only recorded copy.
STC^ 18134.7. C.i45.f.i4.
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