Vox Piscis
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Vox Pisces, or The Book-Fish, contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge market, on Midsummer Eve last. is a book published in 1627 with a very unusual origin.
The original text of the work was found in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. Joseph Mede (or Mead) of Christ's College, Cambridge, was walking through Cambridge's market, when a fishwife found a small sextodecimo book wrapped in sailcloth inside the stomach of a codfish caught at King's Lynn.
These texts were attributed to protestant reformer John Frith, who was imprisoned in a fish-cellar in Oxford and later burned at the stake. The texts were published as a book the next year with a preface written by Thomas Goad.
It is not known how the original book got in the fish's stomach.
[edit] Contents
- Preface
- "Praeparatio Crucem or Of the Preparation to the Cross"
- "A Lettre which was Written to the Faithfull Followers of Christes Gospell"
- "A Mirror, or, Glasse to know thyselfe"
