Pecock's Reule of Crysten Religion. Now First Edited from Pierpont Morgan MS 519

The book once belonged to the New Zealand General Assembly Library, a beautiful gilt stamp on the front cover tells us so. Three is a library pocket on the back paste down and a discoloured square on the front end paper, else an immaculate copy. Please note that the book is in Old English. "Reginald "Pecock (or Peacock; c. 1395 - c. 1461) was an English prelate, scholastic, and writer.He wrote books of both a pedagogical and polemical nature. His pedagogical books, in which he proposes a wholly new catechism include The Donet, The Follower to the Donet, and The Rule of Christian Religion. He joined the debate on Christian doctrine in his Repressing of Over Mich Wyting [blaming] the Clergie, 1449, and Book of Faith, 1456. These were both more cogent than the Lollard tenets, and sought to stay the Lollard movement by setting aside ecclesiastical infallibility, and taking the appeal to Scripture and reason alone. It was principally Pecock's appeal to reason and his attack on the primacy of episcopal authority for which he was deprived in 1458.The bishop's chief work is the famous Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie, which was issued c. 1449–1455. In addition to its great importance in the history of the Lollard movement the Represser has an exceptional interest as a model of the English of the time, Pecock being one of the first writers to use the vernacular. In thought and style alike it is the work of a man of learning and ability." (Wikipedia).…