CDRI DATABASE COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
| Title: | Images from the John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (the "Book of Martyrs"), Ninth Edition (1684) |
| Subtitle: | Foxe’s Book of Martyrs |
| Imprint: | The Ohio State University Libraries / Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 2005-2006. |
| Description: | Complete set of images (mostly engravings) from the ninth (1684) edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church (“Book of Martyrs”), including the title page images of the three volume set, the “Kalender” of martyrdoms, the title page for an added section in volume 3: "A Continuation of the Histories of Forreign Martyrs," and the Table (index). Materials supplied from the collections of The Ohio State University Libraries and Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University.
Inventory numbers supplied by Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram, A Guide to English Illustrated Books, 1536-1603, 2 vols. (Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998), are used to compare the images in this 1684 collection with the woodcuts in the early English editions (see ATLA’s CDRI collection “Woodcut Illustrations from the First Four English Editions of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments”). Square brackets indicate expanded abbreviations or other supplied text. When modernized versions of literatum transcriptions are not given, the modern use of “u/v” and “i/j” is maintained.
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| Source: | Digitized from John Foxe’s Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church : with an universal history of the same : wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practiced by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland : now again, as it was recognized, perused, and recommended to the studious reader / by the author, Mr. John Fox ; whereunto are annexed certain additions of like persecutions which have happened in these later times; to which also is added the life of the author both in Latine and English. (London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1684.) |
| Image Information: | Digital images, with a default resolution of 72 dpi (some are 600 dpi). Archival versions in TIFF format, general use versions in JPEG format. |
| Language: | English. |
| Subjects: | Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.
Martyrdom—Christianity—England. Church history—16th century. Reformation—Europe—History. Printing—England—History—16th century. |
| Creators/Contributors: | John Foxe, 1516-1587.
Ann Godfrey, contributor. |