Beschreibung:

[Tyndale, William]--Erasmus, Desiderius. A COMPENDEUS TRETIS OF THE SOWDEAR OF CRIST CALLED ENCHERIDION WHICH ERASMUS ROTERADAME WROTE UNTO A CERTEN COURTEAR & FRENDE OF HIS manuscript in English, an unrecorded manuscript of the English translation of one of Erasmus's most popular works, presumably produced for presentation, making possible the firm attribution of this translation to William Tyndale, in an attractive and well-formed formal secretary hand, marginalia in a smaller hand and different ink, scored for line guides, later pencil foliation, 145 leaves, large 4to, (285 x 195mm, watermark of the French royal arms, similar to Briquet 1827 and 1828 [both 1520s]) , with a colophon ("translated oute of the latten into englisshe in the yere of our lord god mlvcxxiii [i.e. 1523]"), in modern red morocco gilt with Northumberland armorial stamp, small fragment of earlier spine retained on front free endpapers