Accession number:
PML 20978
Published:
[London] : [William de Machlinia], [approximately 1486]
Description:
[59] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [a]2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mahclinia's types 6:116B and 7:116G.
Signatures: [a]⁶ (2+1: "simple oblig. serr.") b-f⁸ g-h⁶: 59 leaves, leaf [a]1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Law reports for the 37th year of the reign of King Henry VI.
Leaf a6 canceled, no loss of text (STC reports as pi6 cancelled) -- (ESTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 20.7 cm, trimmed.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in an elaborate pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (28.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, preserving earlier endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Title in ISTC: Year book, 37 Henry VI
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, in at least 2 different. Contemporary foliation (ignoring blank). Contemporary pen trials, including "Thys byll made [th]e (fast)" and "poley" (leaf h6v).
Provenance:
Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), collation mark: "C & P./" (front endleaf 3 verso); his sales, 4 Dec. 1721-4 March 1734; unidentified shelf marks: "84: F. 5" and "FF.1. 49" (both crossed out, front endleaf 3 verso); Charles Bruce, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, 3rd earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), armorial bookplate (but not in 1733 Ampthill library catalogue), through inheritance to: Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce (1842-1911), 5th marquis of Ailesbury; his sale, Sotheby's, 3 March 1919, to Quaritch (collation statement, rear endleaf 2 recto) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased, March 1919.
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