Sixteenth century

It isn’t just Joseph who is unsure about this whole baby thing.

It isn't just Joseph who is unsure about this whole baby thing.
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From
John Bucke, Instructions for the vse of the beades conteining many matters of meditacion…
Printed
1589
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 4000)
It isn't just Joseph who is unsure about this whole baby thing.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 21 December 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Instructions for the vse of the beades conteining many matters of meditacion… (1589), the work of John Bucke and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 4000). Copied into this book the twenty-firſt day of December, 2015. Finis.

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Bucke, John.
Instructions for the vse of the beades conteining many matters of meditacion….
1589.
Early English Books Online (STC 4000).

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