Accession number
PML 43328
Object title
The abbaye of the Holy Ghost.
Published
Enpryntyd at Westmestre : by Wynkyn the Worde, [about 1496].
Description
[20] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1952.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d4v. Date from ISTC.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c-d⁴: 20 leaves. Leaves c4 and d4 both missinged c3 and d3.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Printed in de Worde's type 5:95B.
2 woodcuts: Enthroned Trinity on leaf a1r and Crucifixion on leaf a1v.
For various suggestions as to authorship, all rejected, see Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, A3.
The text of this edition seems to be a conflation of The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and The Abbey of the Holy Ghost.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d4v. Date from ISTC.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c-d⁴: 20 leaves. Leaves c4 and d4 both missinged c3 and d3.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Printed in de Worde's type 5:95B.
2 woodcuts: Enthroned Trinity on leaf a1r and Crucifixion on leaf a1v.
For various suggestions as to authorship, all rejected, see Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, A3.
The text of this edition seems to be a conflation of The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and The Abbey of the Holy Ghost.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary quarter parchment laced wrapper. In modern paper folder.
Variant title
Charter of the abbey of the Holy Ghost
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Payne, bookplate: "C. Payne Gonwyn Owen" with dragon and book (article recording his loan of incunabula to the Johannesburg Public Library, May 1950 in box with book); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach Co. with the assistance of the Fellows, March 1952.
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