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A00350
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De co[n]temptu mundi The dispisyng of the worlde / co[m]piled in Latyn by Erasmus Rot. ; and translated in to Englyshe by Thomas Paynell ...
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Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.
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STC 10470.8; ESTC S878
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