Royal MS 18 B XXVII

'A BOKE of the authorite and an absolute perfection of the holy scripture, compiled in Latine by the righte famous clerke Maister Henry Bullinger and now translated into Englyshe by William Gybson': translation of lib. i of Heinrich Bullinger's 'De scripturae sanctae auttoritate . . . deque episcoporum . . . institutione et functione', first printed in 1538. The author's 'Peroratio ad Regem' at the end is altered by the translator to 'The Conclusion to the reader'. Prefixed is an undated address to Edward [Seymour], Duke of Somerset (cr. 1547, d. 1552), beg. 'When the fame and brute was that youre grace woulde maike youre progresse in these parties', followed by an address to the Reader in Latin, which ends 'E Schola nostra Sherebourniensi', and (f. 5 b) eight elegiac verses on the text 'Verbum domini manet in acternum'. Sherborne School was reconstituted by Edward VI in May, 1550, and Gibson's name as master is on the school books from 1539 to 1550. He may have been a Fellow of King's Hall, Cambridge (see Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII, xx, pt. ii, no. 706. 72). Apparently autograph. Of the two vellum fly-leaves, f. i is from a late 14th cent. MS. of some Repertorium of civil and canon law,containing the articles Irregularitas, Judaeus, and Judex; f. 103 from a 13th cent. MS. of Isaiah (xvi. 1-7), with marginal and interlinear commentary.

Paper (exc. ff. 1, 103) ; ff. 103. Folio. 121/4 in. x 8 in. Circ. 1548-1550. Amongst scribbling on the fly-leaf (f. 1) is an address for a letter 'to hys louynge brother Martyng Gybson', &c. Not in the old catalogues.