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  A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.
  Date of publication:
  1535
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae. English. aut ; Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.
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  The traditional attribution to Thomas a ̀Kempis is disputed. An English translation, by Richard Whitford, of: Imitatio Christi. Imprint from STC. Includes an English translation, by Richard Whitford, of: Bernard, Saint. ...
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  A dayly exercyse and experyence of dethe, gathered and set forth, by a brother of Syon Rycharde Whytforde
  Date of publication:
  1537
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
  Description:
  Imprint from colophon. An edition of: A dayly exercice and experience of dethe. Signatures: A-G H¹⁰. Slight print show-through; H10v, final leaf, stained. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A dialoge or co[m]municacion bytwene the curate or ghostly father, & the parochiane or ghostly chyld, for a due preparacion vnto howselynge ; The werke for housholders w[ith] the golden pystle and alphabete or a crosrowe called an A.B.C.
  Date of publication:
  1537
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
  Description:
  "A dayly exercyse and experyence of dethe" and "The werke for housholders" each has special t.p. Dedication begins: "Unto the deuoute reders in our Lorde God & moste swete sauyour Jesu, Rychard Whytford your pore bedeman ...
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  A werke for housholders or for them ye haue the gydynge or gouernaunce of any company. Gadred [and] set forth by a professed brother of Syon Richard Whytforde. And newly corrected [and] prynted agayne w[ith] an addicion of policy for housholdynge, set forth also by the same brother.
  Date of publication:
  1530
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136. Epistola .. de bona gubernatonne familie.
  Description:
  Imprint from colophon. G4r has caption title, reading: A breue, or shorte monicyon or counseyle of the cure [et] gouernau[n]ce of a housholde, accordyng vnto policye, taken out of a pystle of a great lerned man, called ...
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  Here begynneth a goodly treatyse, and it is called a notable lesson, otherwyse it is called the golden pystle
  Date of publication:
  1531
  

  Author(s):

  Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. ; Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
  Description:
  An English adaptation, by Richard Whitford, of: Saint Bernard. Epistola de perfectione vitae. Place of publication and printer's name from colophon. Signatures: [A]-B⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Here begynneth a goodly treatyse, and it is called, A notable lesson, otherwyse it is called The golden pystle
  Date of publication:
  1530
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae.
  Description:
  "This was brought vnto me in Englysshe of an olde translacyon rugh, and rude, and requyred to amende it. I thought lesse labour to wryte newe the whole ..." signed: Rycharde Whytforde--P. [7]. An adaptation, by Richard ...
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  Here begynneth a shorte monycyon, or counsayle of the cure & gouernaunce of a housholde accordynge vnto policy / taken out of a pystle of a great learned man called Bernarde syluestre.
  Date of publication:
  1530
  

  Author(s):

  Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136. ; Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
  Description:
  STC (2nd ed.) attributes translation to R. Whitford. Contains illustrated t.p., tail piece, init. Colophon reads: Here endeth the boke Intytuled the gouernaunce of housholde. Imprynted by me Robert wyer, dwellyng at the ...
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  Here begynneth the boke called the Pype, or tonne, of the lyfe of perfection The reason or cause wherof dothe playnely appere in the processe.
  Date of publication:
  1532
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. De praecepto et dispensatione. English.
  Description:
  "Vnto the deuoute readers" signed: Richarde Whytforde. Imprint from colophon. "A worke or boke of the reuere[n]t father .. saynt Bernarde, named by ye tytle thus. De precepto et dispensatione", V1r-2F3r. The last leaf bears ...
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  Here followeth dyuers holy instrucyons and teachynges very necessarye for the helth of mannes soule, newly made and set forth by a late brother of Syon Rychard whitforde
  Date of publication:
  1541
  

  Author(s):

  Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555? ; Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636. Here be the gathered counsailes of Saynct Isodorie to informe man, howe he shuld flee vices. ; John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. Of detraction.
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  Imprint from colophon. "Includes a translation of St. Isidore's Instruction to avoid vices and John Chrysostom's Of detraction, from the 3rd homily to the people of Antioch."--STC. M5r has caption title, reading: a worke ...
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  The follovving of Christ Diuided into foure bookes. Written in Latin by the learned and deuout man, Thomas a Kempis, canon-regular of the order of S. Augustine. Whereunto also is added the golden Epistle of S. Bernard. And also certaine rules of a Christian life, made by Iohn Picus the elder, Earle of Mirandula. Translated into English by B.F.
  Date of publication:
  1615
  

  Author(s):

  Hoskins, Anthony, 1568-1615. ; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546. ; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae. English. ; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, Regulae duodecim portim excitantes portim dirigentes hominem in pugna spirituali. English. aut ; Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name. ; Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
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  A translation of: Imitatio Christi. The traditional attribution to Thomas à Kempis is disputed. B.F. = Anthony Hoskins. The "Golden epistle" is a translation by Richard Whitford of "Epistola de perfectione vitae"; the rules ...
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