Accession number
PML 33723.2
Object title
Here endith the boke of Natura breuium emprynted by Richard Pynson.
Uniform title
Natura brevium.
Published
[London] : emprynted by Richard Pynson, [1494]
Description
[60] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1937.
Notes
Title from colophon.
Publication date from STC.
Printed in Pynson's types 2:101B and 5:114G.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d-e⁶ f⁸ g-h⁶ i⁴: 60 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Opening of text, a2r: Dicitur q[ue] il ad bre[f] de droit patent [et] bre[f] de droit clos bre[f] / de droit patent serra p[ri]mez port in le courte le b[aron] de q[ue] la terre est tennz.
The last leaf (i4r) with Pynson's woodcut device.
The colophon of STC 23877.7 mentions this edition.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
Publication date from STC.
Printed in Pynson's types 2:101B and 5:114G.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d-e⁶ f⁸ g-h⁶ i⁴: 60 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Opening of text, a2r: Dicitur q[ue] il ad bre[f] de droit patent [et] bre[f] de droit clos bre[f] / de droit patent serra p[ri]mez port in le courte le b[aron] de q[ue] la terre est tennz.
The last leaf (i4r) with Pynson's woodcut device.
The colophon of STC 23877.7 mentions this edition.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
18th-century(?) English blind-tooled brown pigskin over paper boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves.
Variant title
Here endith the boke of Natura brevium emprynted by Richard Pynson
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Heavily annotated in several 16th-century hands (Sakevyle, Boorde, and Griffith) and Roman numeral foliation starting on leaf a2r.
Provenance
John Sackville (d. 1557); George Boorde (active 1547-1556), ownership inscriptions on first leaves of Old Tenures and Natura brevium, including: "George Boorde. Thys Booke was geven to George Boorde by his [??] Johan Sakevyle the fyrst yere of kynge Edward ye sixt [i.e. 1547]" (leaf a1r of Old Tenures)," "George Boorde berythe name to be owner of thys Booke 1556" (leaf a1r of Natura brevium), and initial cyphers (leaf A1r of Tenores novelli); Thomas Griffith, signatures at colophons of each work, 16th century; G.R. Corner, FSA (d. 1863), notes referencing Stow's Survey; his sale ("Library of a Gentleman"), Sotheby's, 11 May 1863, lot 870; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, March 1937.
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