Added title page, engraved. Frontispiece printed in sepia. Baldwin Library copy : leather binding closed with decorative metal and leather clasps. FU "The engraved title ... was adapted by Miss Blanche C. Hunter from B.M. Add. ms. 31240, f. 4"--Page iv "Nearly forty years ago, Dr. Furnivall collected for the Early English text society 'divers treatises touching the manners and meals of Englishmen in former days.' Some of these were published in 1868, under the title The babees' book (since listed as Early English meals and manners) and others ... in 1869, under the title Queene Elizabethes achademy." The substance of Dr. Furnivall's collections in antiquated English are now presented in modern form. "About half of the translations have been made by Miss L.J. Naylor."--Introd. (p. xi-xii, xxxv) Half-title: The babees book medieval manners for the young now first done into modern English from the texts of Dr. F.J. Furnival. Collation of original: xxxv, 203 p. : ill. ; 16 cm. Copy 1 is a photocopy of original (copy 2) Made at Luther College. Added t.-p., engraved. "The engraved title ... was adapted by Miss Blanche C. Hunter from B. M. Add. ms. 31240, f. 4."--p. [iv]. "Nearly forty years ago, Dr. Furnivall collected for the Early English text society 'divers treatises touching the manners and meals of Englishmen in former days.' Some of these were published in 1868, under the title The babees' book (since listed as Early English meals and manners) and others ... in 1869, under the title Queene Elizabethes achademy." The substance of Dr. Furnivall's collections in antiquated English are now presented in modern form. "About half of the translations have been made by Miss L. J. Naylor."--Introd. (p. xi-xii, xxxv).
Contents:
Introduction -- The babees' book -- The ABC of Aristotle -- Urbanitatis -- The little children's little book -- The young children's book -- Stans puer ad mensam -- How the good wife taught her daughter -- How the wise man taught his son -- John Russell's Book of nurture -- The book of courtesy -- Symon's Lesson of wisdom for all manner children -- Hugh Rhode's Book of nurture -- Francis Seager's School of virtue -- Richard Weste's School of virtue, the second part, or The Young scholar's paradise -- Notes.
Series:
The New medieval library ; [4]
OCLC:
(OCoLC)3904504
LCCN:
09004068
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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