Publications 30

Title: Thesaurus Biblicus seu Promptuarium sacrum Whereunto are added all the marginall readings, with the words of the text, and many words in the text expounded by the text, all alphabetically set downe throughout the Bible. In the end is annexed an abstract of the principal matters in the Holy Scripture. By Richard Bernard, late rector of Batcombe. See the contents and use of all, in the Epistle to the reader. Imprint: Imprinted at London: by Felix Kingston, for Andrew Crooke at the Signe of the Greene-Dragon in Paules Church-Yard, 1644. Date: 1644 Pages: [492] p

Copy from: Newberry Library

Notes: Frontis. portrait (A1v) of the author signed: W: Hollar Bohem, ad viuum del: Londini. Ie Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Signatures: A-2S6. Leaf 2S6 is blank. Another edition appeared the same year and also in 1661. The wiork contains a five page introduction by Bernard himself which is preceded by a three page one by John Conant (1586-1653). He was (from 1619) the rector of Lymington in Somerset.