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Author

Pont, Robert, 1524-1606

Title

A newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens liues, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof, : this 1600. yeare of Christ, (erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee) which is from the Creation, the 5548. yeare. Conteining sundrie singularities, worthie of observation, concerning courses of times, and revolutions of the heauen, and reformations of kalendars, and prognistications: with a discourse of prophecies and signes, preceeding the latter daye, which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch. With a godlie admonition in the end, vpon the words of the Apostle, to redeeme the time, because the dayes are evill. / By M. Robert Pont, an aged pastour in the Kirk of Scotland. The heades are set downe in certaine propositions, in the page following..

Varying form of title

Newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens lives, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof

Varying form of title

Of the last decaying age of the worlde

Imprint

Edinburgh : Printed by Robert Walde-graue, printer to the Kings Maiestie., Anno 1599..

Physical description

105, [1] p. ; 17 cm (4to)

Note

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regio.

Note

Running title reads: Of the last decaying age of the worlde.

Note

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁴ O1.

Note

Head-pieces, tail-pieces; woodcut initials.

Citation/references note

STC (2nd ed.), 20104

Citation/references note

ESTC, S114916

Reproduction note

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1948. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 349:7).

Provenance

Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”

Binding

Late 17th-century brown sheepskin over paper boards; sewn on four cord supports; evidence of earlier stab stitching; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with inner frame of blind rolls, with blind stamps at corners; spine with four raised bands and blind fillets; text block edges marbled; later (19th-century?) spine title label with "Religious Tracts"; remains of date in gilt at tail of spine; leaves of blank paper bound between items.

Copy-specific note

Bound in a volume of late 16th- and 17th-century pamphlets. A list of contents in a late 17th-century hand is written on the first free upper endleaf, headed "3d quarto Parket", and with binding instructions/description at the end: "well x beaten in sheeps leather upon bords". A second manuscript list of contents is on the second free upper endleaf. A list of authors of the pamphlets is written on the third upper free endleaf, possibly in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth.

Copy-specific note

A typed note about item (i) in this volume, God's promise to his plantation, has been tipped in to the fourth free upper endleaf. A manuscript addition in ink states that the note is by Frances Rose-Troup.

Copy-specific note

Imperfect: wanting final leaf (O1).

Subject

Chronology Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Waldegrave, Robert, 1554-1604 printer.

Added entry--place

Scotland Edinburgh.

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2463#$aNewe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens lives, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof

2463#$aOf the last decaying age of the worlde

260##$aEdinburgh :$bPrinted by Robert Walde-graue, printer to the Kings Maiestie.,$cAnno 1599..

300##$a105, [1] p. ;$c17 cm (4to)

500##$aAt foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regio.

500##$aRunning title reads: Of the last decaying age of the worlde.

500##$aSignatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁴ O1.

500##$aHead-pieces, tail-pieces; woodcut initials.

5104#$aSTC (2nd ed.),$c20104

5104#$aESTC,$cS114916

533##$aMicrofilm.$bAnn Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International,$d1948. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm$f(Early English books, 1475-1640; 349:7).

561##$aSalisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”

563##$aLate 17th-century brown sheepskin over paper boards; sewn on four cord supports; evidence of earlier stab stitching; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with inner frame of blind rolls, with blind stamps at corners; spine with four raised bands and blind fillets; text block edges marbled; later (19th-century?) spine title label with "Religious Tracts"; remains of date in gilt at tail of spine; leaves of blank paper bound between items.

590##$aBound in a volume of late 16th- and 17th-century pamphlets. A list of contents in a late 17th-century hand is written on the first free upper endleaf, headed "3d quarto Parket", and with binding instructions/description at the end: "well x beaten in sheeps leather upon bords". A second manuscript list of contents is on the second free upper endleaf. A list of authors of the pamphlets is written on the third upper free endleaf, possibly in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth.

590##$aA typed note about item (i) in this volume, God's promise to his plantation, has been tipped in to the fourth free upper endleaf. A manuscript addition in ink states that the note is by Frances Rose-Troup.

590##$aImperfect: wanting final leaf (O1).

650#0$aChronology$vEarly works to 1800.

7001#$aWaldegrave, Robert,$d1554-1604$eprinter.

752##$aScotland$dEdinburgh.