Accession number
PML 735.1-2
Object title
Chronicles of England.
Uniform title
Chronicles: England.
Published
Westminster : Wynkyn de Worde, 1497-1498.
Description
[202, 24] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Title to part 2: The descrypcyon of Englonde (leaf ²A1r).
Colophon, part 1, leaf I4r: Here endyth this present cronycle of Englonde wyth the frute of tymes: compiled in a booke / [and] also enprynted by one somtyme scole mayster of saynt Albons. on whoos soule god haue mercy / And newely in the yer[e] of our lord god .M.CCCC.lxxxxvij. enpryntid at Westmestre by Wynkyn de Worde. [Printer's mark, leaf I4v]
Colophon, part 2, leaf D6v: Fynysshed and enprynted at Westmestre by me Wynken de worde / the yere of our lorde a .M.CCCC. and foure score and .xviij.
Printed in De Worde's types 3:136G and 5:95G.
Signatures, in two parts: 1) Aa⁶; a-z [us] A-H⁶ I⁴: 202 leaves; part 2) ²A-D⁶: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts and typographic diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.8 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 patial leaves and 4 leaves: Aa1 (mostly torn away), b6 (partially torn away), [us]1 (replaced in manuscript), and ²D1-2 and 6; quire ²C bound out of order.
Title to part 2: The descrypcyon of Englonde (leaf ²A1r).
Colophon, part 1, leaf I4r: Here endyth this present cronycle of Englonde wyth the frute of tymes: compiled in a booke / [and] also enprynted by one somtyme scole mayster of saynt Albons. on whoos soule god haue mercy / And newely in the yer[e] of our lord god .M.CCCC.lxxxxvij. enpryntid at Westmestre by Wynkyn de Worde. [Printer's mark, leaf I4v]
Colophon, part 2, leaf D6v: Fynysshed and enprynted at Westmestre by me Wynken de worde / the yere of our lorde a .M.CCCC. and foure score and .xviij.
Printed in De Worde's types 3:136G and 5:95G.
Signatures, in two parts: 1) Aa⁶; a-z [us] A-H⁶ I⁴: 202 leaves; part 2) ²A-D⁶: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts and typographic diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.8 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 patial leaves and 4 leaves: Aa1 (mostly torn away), b6 (partially torn away), [us]1 (replaced in manuscript), and ²D1-2 and 6; quire ²C bound out of order.
Binding
18th-century(?) English sprinkled calf over paper boards (27 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges. Pastedowns are unidentified printer's waste, with text facing boards.
Variant title
Cronycle of Englonde
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Pen and ink drawing of English royal heraldic device (pasted to front endleaf 3 verso). Annotations: Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands, primarily near beginning but sporadically throughout, including several long textual inscriptions on leaves Aa1r-v (partially torn away), Aa4v, k2v, x6v, and I4v, note on Thomas of Lancaster and Humphre de Bohun (leaf x1r), and unsigned payment: "this byll mad the xxte daye of octobre in [th]e frest ye[r]e of" (leaf ²C3v, and similar torn away on leaf Aa1r).
Provenance
Garvis Lowe, contemporary inscription, "In the nam of god.." (leaf Aa1r); several contemporary names written in margins throughout text: William (Wyllm) Clarke, of Brantham (Suffolk) (leaf Aa5v), William Willmott (leaves f6v and h1v), Hairy Hammond (leaf k1v), John Oughan (s3v), and John Hodeheman of Wrant[??] (leaf s5v); Philip Honywood, of Markshall, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), William Philip Honywood (1790-1831) sale, Sotheby's, 4 April 1898, lot 91 for £22 to Pickering for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) and purchase notes: No. 14a, 4/4/98 and price code: os/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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