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APPENDIX.
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APPENDIX E.
Probably it will interest my readers that I should set alongside each
other the titles of Pedersen and Gau’s treatises :—
Den rette vey
till Hiemmerigis Rige
Han lasris her i de thi Gudz bud ord
och i Credo och Pater noster
I huilke hwert christet meniske
finder all del so staar i scrifften
Och alle de ting som hanne
er ndttelige oc tilborlige ath
vide til sin sielis salighed
Lass bogen till ende
da shall dw del
saa finde
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The richt
vay to the Kingdome of he-
uine is techit heir in the x c3
mandis of God / And in the
Creid / and Pater nofter /
In the quhilk al chriffine ma
fal find al thing yat is neid
ful and requirit to onderftand
to the faluation of
the faul.
Both titles are within a woodcut border; both treatises are very neatly
printed in black letter. Pedersen’s has no printer’s device at the end ;
Gau’s has the device previously described. The words in the title of
Pedersen’s book, as given above, which are printed in italics, are
omitted in the title of Gau’s. Had they been inserted, the last part of
that title would have run as follows : “ In the quhilk al chriffine ma
fal find al yat is conteinit in the Scriptures and al thing yat is neidful
and requirit to onderftand to the faluation of the faul. Reid the buik
til ye end and thow fal find it fa.”
The following is Mr Maitland Anderson’s description of Pedersen’s
treatise as published at Antwerp in 1531 : “The book is in small
octavo, and consists of 124 leaves, unpaged, signed A ii—Q iii, 24
lines to the page. The title-page is enclosed in an ornamental border,
which has the arms of Denmark—viz., three crowned lions at the top,
and three crowns and a lion at the bottom—possibly meant to indi¬
cate that it was set forth with the approbation of Christiern II., who
still claimed in his exile to be King of Denmark, Sweden, and Nor¬
way. Leaves A ii—A iiii contain the preface, which is not, like Gau’s,
headed by his name. The text begins at leaf A 4, and is continued to
leaf Q ii, verso line 18. Leaf Q iii—Q 4, line 17, contains ‘A prayer
from the xii Psalm,’ ‘which every one may pray to God that He will
increase among us the faith and His word and gospels.’ Under this
comes the colophon :—
1 Denne bog er prentet
i Andorp
och rettet afif
Christien 2 Pedersen
fom vaar Cannick i Lund 3
Aar effter Gudz byrd
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1 A star.
2 Sic.
3 A clover leaf.