Editorial note — Front matter
Reading edition
Title Page text:
¶ A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght.
Borders: In the surviving text, the decorative border appears along the top and sides of the first page, and around all sides of the last page. The first page probably had a lower border as well. The continuous left border was added by the transcriber.
Page A2verso How / where / or whan I cam nothynge say The word “cam” could be read as “cain” with missing dot, but an unambiguous letter “m” with the same defect appears several other times on this page.
Damaged Lines: The original text was published as an eight-page pamphlet. In the surviving copy, used as the basis for facsimile reprints, the bottoms of all pages have been cropped. A total of three lines—as deduced from the verse structure—are entirely missing, and a further three have been reconstructed from their surviving portions. Folio numbers would have appeared at the very bottom of the page.
Page A1verso (A further line is entirely missing)
Page A2
Page A3verso
Page A3
The single word “Of” seems secure. The words “our kynges”, copied from further up the same page, are included because they happen to fit. They should not be taken as a serious attempt at reconstruction.