Vox Piscis, or The Book-Fish, contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish
The original text of the work was found in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. Joseph Mede (or Mead) of Christ's...
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The original text of the work was found in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. Joseph Mede (or Mead) of Christ's College, Cambridge, was walking through Cambridge's market, when a fishwife found a small thin book (size sextodecimo) wrapped in sailcloth inside the stomach of a codfish caught at King's Lynn.
These texts were attributed to Protestant reformer John Frith, who was imprisoned in a fish-cellar in Oxford and later burned at the stake. The texts were published as a book the next year with a preface written by Thomas Goad. The texts have also been attributed to Richard Tracy of Stanbury Manor, Gloucestershire.
It is not known how the original book came to be inside the fish.
- Format:Hardcover
- Pages: pages
- Publication:1627
- Publisher:London: Printed for James Boler and Robert Milbovrne
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- Language:eng
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- kindle Asin:B0DM49KW66
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