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S.F. Book Fair
Charles W. Treylen
Sept. '76 $4.30

John Mink (Mync) (fl. 1403? to 1420) #688 3) Rosenwald Collection - cciiii (le CXCVi) leaves, illust. 20 cm.
Liber festivalis - Quatuor sermones (The festyuall)
May 11, 1508 - Wynkyn de Worde - London - S.T.C. 17971 2 pts.
4 9 - copies 1 Yale Univ., 2 Emmanuel College, Cambridge
1515, 1519, 1528, 1532.

- a religious manual - an English [inserted] Library of Congress #1212 [end inserted homily collection lxix De Sancto Stephano
Wynkyn de Worde (1493-1535) copy: Yale, Emmanuel College Cambridge.
- a native Worth in Alsace
- published 6 books at the Red Pale before 1494.

The Book of Courtesy The Life of St. Katherine
The Treatise of Love Golden Legend - See #161
The Chastising of God's Children Liber Festivalis

before 1500
De Worde 100 / (800 altogether)
Pynson 88 / (400 ")
Notary 8 / (48 ")
Caxton 100

other religious manuals (printed by De Worde)
W. Lyndewood - Provinciale - 1496, 99
C. Maydeston - Directorium sacerdotum

Speculum XI (1036) ed. T. Erbe
See "Early English Text Society / Extra Series 96"

John Mirk was Prior of the Abbey of Augustinian Canons
at Lilleshall in Shropshire in the early 15th C.
His Festival is a collection of anecdotal sermons
for parish priests arranged according to the feast
days of the Church's year
1st edition - Caxton - 30 June 1483 Type 4*

The Festival begins with a preface in which the writer speaks of
himself as one who has charge of souls + must teach his
parishioners about the principal feasts, information which he
has partly drawn from the Legenda Aurea. Each Sermon begins
with moral reflection + ends with a 'nanacio' anecdote the source of which
is often named. No common origin has yet been assigned to the
numerous manuscripts of the Liber Festialis. The printed editions
of Caxtons + de Worde have Mirk's preface but are arranged like *
[inserted] *the Harl. MSS with various omissions. Mirk also wrote the "ManualeSacerdotum." [end inserted]