Accession number
PML 754
Creator
Petronilla, Saint.
Object title
The lyfe of Petronylla.
Published
[London] : empryntyd by Rychard Pynson, [approximately 1494]
Description
[4] leaves ; 17.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett colleciton, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: The parfite lyfe to put in remembraunce / Of a virgyn moost gracious and entere / which in all vertu had sovereyn suffysaunce / Callyd Petronylla petyrs doughter dere / ...
Printer's name from colophon, leaf [1]/4v. Pynson's device, leaf [1]/1r.
Date from BMC.
Printed in Pynson's type 2C:101B.
Collation: [1]⁴: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Text in verse.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 16.8 x 12 cm.
PML copy with some worm damage, generally to outer margin not affecting text; repaired.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: The parfite lyfe to put in remembraunce / Of a virgyn moost gracious and entere / which in all vertu had sovereyn suffysaunce / Callyd Petronylla petyrs doughter dere / ...
Printer's name from colophon, leaf [1]/4v. Pynson's device, leaf [1]/1r.
Date from BMC.
Printed in Pynson's type 2C:101B.
Collation: [1]⁴: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Text in verse.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 16.8 x 12 cm.
PML copy with some worm damage, generally to outer margin not affecting text; repaired.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled, straight-grain brown morocco over paper boards (17.5 x 12.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Charles Lewis. Red paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), his sale, King & Locheé, 26 May 1813, lot 442; Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription from Tooke sale: 6.2.6 + 1815 C. Lewis binding 1.5.0 + D° repairing 0.10.0 = 20.14.0 (front endleaf 2 recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, part I, Sotheby's, 10 April 1834, lot 1810 to Thorpe for £3.--; John Fuller Russell (1814-1884), signature (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1885, lot 880 to Toovey for £30.10; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 138, 22/4/96 and price code: sm/-/- less 10% +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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