Tenores nouelli.

Accession number: 
PML 711
Author: 
Littleton, Thomas, Sir, -1481.
Published: 
In civitate Londoniarum : impressi per nos Johannem Lettou et William de Machlinia, [approximately 1482-1483].
Description: 
[70] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf i6v: Expliciu[n]t Tenores nouelli Imp[re]ssi p[er] nos Ioh[ann]em lettou [et] Will[ia]m de machlinia i[n] Ci[vi]tate Londonia[rum] iuxta ecc[lesi]am o[mn]i[u]m s[anc]to[rum].
Date from BMC.
Printed in Lettou and Machlinia's types 1:140G and 2:102G.
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶: 70 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
According to Goff known in two variant states.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.6 x 14.5 cm, all leaves fully inlaid.
PML copy with multiple leaves damaged, repaired with some losses to text.

Binding: 
19th-century English blind-tooled, brown hard-grained morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Tenores novelli

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary English rubrication, primary initials in blue with red foliate decoration with rest of initials in red and underlining (blue pigment washed away in PML copy). Rubrication likely from Lettou shop, see BMC XI 248-49 and Fig. 18. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout volume, although mostly obliterated by trimming of leaves.

Provenance: 
Unidentified 19th-century English sale catalogue descriptions: 1) no lot number but citing inlaid leaves (front pastedown) and 2) lot 692, citing inlaid leaves (front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified price inscriptions: 1) "£01:10 excessively rare -- a few leaves damaged but complete," in neat cursive in pencil (front endleaf 1 verso) and 2) prices: "[nu lambda]. [lambda chi] and 70/-/- (front endleaf 2 recto); Augustus Harris (1852-1896), his sale, Sotheby's, 29 April 1897, lot 619 for £20.0.0 to Pickering & Chatto for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 259, 30/4/97 and price code: oo/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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