Accession number
PML 760
Object title
Noua statuta.
Published
[London] : Emprynted by my Richard Pynson, [about 1500-1501]
Description
[301] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
"The last quire, 2nd G4 (12 Hen. VII), may have been printed a little later than the rest ... Possibly [STC] 9357.7 (19 Hen. VII) was intended as a supplement"--STC (2nd ed.).
As in most copies, PML copy with leaf ²F6 removed when quire ²G was added (see BMC).
Collation: a-c⁸ d⁶; ²a-z⁸; [et] [con] A⁸ B⁸(4+1: "p[er] q[ua]le custume") C⁸ D-F⁶ G⁴; ²D⁸ ²E-F⁶ ²G⁴: 301 leaves, leaves a1, ²F6, and ²G4 blank.
Contains statutes published after the reign of Edward II.
Dated from the state of the device (BMC). Formerly considered as printed about 1505.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 22.7 cm
PML copy missing 4 leaves: a1 (blank), a4-5, and ²G4 (blank), with a4-5 replaced in facsimile.
Printed in Pynson's type 7b:95G.
Printer statement from colophon (leaf ²G3r); printer's device on 2G3v.
Statutes of Edward III (1327)-Richard III are in Law Latin; those of Henry VII (1497) are in English.
Table of contents on leaves a2r-d6v and ²D1r.
Title from incipit (leaf ²a1r).
As in most copies, PML copy with leaf ²F6 removed when quire ²G was added (see BMC).
Collation: a-c⁸ d⁶; ²a-z⁸; [et] [con] A⁸ B⁸(4+1: "p[er] q[ua]le custume") C⁸ D-F⁶ G⁴; ²D⁸ ²E-F⁶ ²G⁴: 301 leaves, leaves a1, ²F6, and ²G4 blank.
Contains statutes published after the reign of Edward II.
Dated from the state of the device (BMC). Formerly considered as printed about 1505.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 22.7 cm
PML copy missing 4 leaves: a1 (blank), a4-5, and ²G4 (blank), with a4-5 replaced in facsimile.
Printed in Pynson's type 7b:95G.
Printer statement from colophon (leaf ²G3r); printer's device on 2G3v.
Statutes of Edward III (1327)-Richard III are in Law Latin; those of Henry VII (1497) are in English.
Table of contents on leaves a2r-d6v and ²D1r.
Title from incipit (leaf ²a1r).
Binding
19th-century brown morocco with central gilt cartouche and gilt edging over paper boards (29.5 x 24 cm) by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Nova statuta
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few marginal inscriptions in contemporary hands with underlining in text.
Provenance
William Saunder, 15th/16th-century signature on banderole in printer's device (leaf ²G3v; ?also BL, Sloane MS 4031; ?of St. Gilles, Camberwell, see P. Johnston, "Old Camberwell" Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, n.s. 3/III (1916), p. 227); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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