| Description | Letter in Latin to Robert Beale from Seyfrid a Kunnowitz, who is in financial distress in London.
Abstract:
Has soldiered for a number of years in France with little profit. When he set out for his homeland by sea, he was terribly sea-sick and so came to England and to London. There he has had to sell his clothes and turn effects, his credit having dried up. Among those effects is a Holy Bible with notes by FrancisVatablus in Robert Stephanus’s last edition, which he thinks suitable for Beale’s “very noble” library and asks if he will buy it. [abstract by James D. George]
Addressed to Beale as: Illustri Viro Domino Roberto Belo Angliae Secretario Germaniae Exlegato et caet[era] – Literarum Maecenati vnico
The bible in question is the Latin bible printed in Paris in 1545 by Robert Estienne, which includes notes taken from the lectures of François Vatable (late 15th c. - 1547), a Humanist and Hebrew scholar.
The date is from a note by Beale in the margin, in which he says he has sent the writer, who is unknown to him, a gold coin (a Spanish pistolet) via Rodolfssen {?] ab Eck, from Cologne, who brought him the letter. |