Saint Germain, Christopher (1460?-1540) Three Titles Bound Together: The Fyrste Dyaloge in Englysshe; The Secunde Dyalogue; [and] Here after Foloweth a Lytell Treatise. [London: Robert Wyer, 1531]
[London: Imprynted in Southwarke by Peter Treveris, 1531]
[London: Thomas Bertheletus, 1531]. Ocatvo, a modified translation of Saint Germain's Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum Anglie et de Conscientia, three separate imprints bound together, woodcut devices, later speckled calf boards, rebacked, contents good, contemporary annotations, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
In 1528, St. Germain published his first book, Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum Anglie et de Conscientia, The work was often refered to as Doctor and Student, after its two interlocutors, a doctor of divinity and a student of laws. Saint Germain examines the relationship between English common law and personal conscience. The published English translation was likely written by St. Germain himself. He agumented the work, adding A Second Dialogue, and New Addicions.
I: a-u4; II: A-X8, Y6; III: A-D8.
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