Help with reading books - Report a bad link - Suggest a new listingĪdditional books from the extended shelves: Foxe, John, 1516-1587: The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (variorum online edition of Foxe's "Book of Marytrs", with transcriptions of four 16th century editions and modern commentary) (HTML at ).Charlewood, 1576), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. Foxe, John, 1516-1587, contrib.: The Treasure of Trueth Touching the Grounde Worke of Man His Salvation, and Chiefest Pointes of Christian Religion, With a Briefe Summe of the Comfortable Doctrine of God his Providence, Comprised in 38 Short Aphorismes (with added treatises by Foxe and Gilby London: J.Foxe, John, 1516-1587: Martyrologia: or, Records of Religious Persecution, Being a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs, of Ancient and Modern Times (3 volumes London: J.by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust) Foxe, John, 1516-1587: Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs (Philadelphia and Chicago: J.Online Books by John Foxe (Foxe, John, 1516-1587)Ī Wikipedia article about this author is available. Since most of Professor Patenall’s books are in their contemporary bindings, their early provenance is often quite easily determined and always interesting to research.John Foxe (Foxe, John, 1516-1587) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page Each edition is fascinating in its own right, and the earliest ones bear witness to the various and sundry interventions which Foxe himself made to his books while they were actually going through the presses. Some sixty editions, collected over thirty years, and dating from the first printed in 1563 to a near-contemporary 1973 issue, now complement the Fisher’s other strong holdings in the history of Protestant thought, namely the Forbes and Knox College collections.Ĭataloguing the collection began in March of 2009. of T.’s Scarborough campus, and his wife Leslie Coates donated to the Fisher one of the most comprehensive collections of Foxe's Book of Martyrs ever assembled in North America, rivalled only by that at Ohio State University. In May of 2008, Professor Andrew Patenall, a retired English professor from U. The book is an account of Christian martyrs and martyrdom throughout Western history, with an emphasis on the Protestant martyrs of the early 16th centuries. Through the Revolving Door: Fisher Blogįirst published in 1563, John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, better known as The Book of Martyrs, was one of the most elaborate early books produced, with vivid woodcut illustrations.Guidelines for Filming at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
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