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QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS.

By F. MADDEN.

I beg leave to make the two following Queries:— 1. In Bayle's very useful work, *Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniæ Catalogus*, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) *Glossator*, is mentioned *Commentarius in Apocalypsin*, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi diceret;" and Bayle adds:— "Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc per Martinum Lutherum, *Ante centum annos* intitularus, anno Domini 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusu…

Topics: Apocalypse, Seven Sacraments, Bible Translations, Wycliffite Bible

Locations: Wittembergæ, Bodleian Library, Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth