Table 3

Comparison of marginal notes between A Testimonie (1566/1567) and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1570)

Page 1309, column 1
1566/1567 A Testimonie marginal notesFoxe’s 1570 edited version of the same marginal note
“This was no in questions, and so before Beringariusa tyme”“Note how Christs words were taken by signification before Berengarius time”
Note(s)
a

Berengar of Tours (ca1088). He was opposed to the doctrine of transubstantiation. The sole surviving manuscript of his treatise, De Sacra Coena (Concerning the sacred supper), was not discovered until 1770. See Berengarii Turonensis De Sacra Coena adversus Lanfrancum, ad fidem codicis Guelferbytani edidit, edited by W. H. Beekenkamp, Kerkhistorische Studien behoorende bij het Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 2 (The Hague: Martin Nijhoff, 1941; Berengarius, 1941)

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