[Quattuor sermones].

Accession number:

PML 783

Published:

[Westminster] : William Caxton, [1491]

Description:

[34] leaves ; 26 cm (fol)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Amherst collection, 1908.

Notes:

Collation: A-C⁸ D¹⁰: 34 leaves.
Date derived from paper stocks.
Imprint based on Caxton's printer's mark (leaf D10r).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.6 x 18.3 cm
PML copy missing 9 leaves: D2-10, including Caxton's device.
Printed in Caxton's type 6:120B.
Probably issued with John Mirk: Liber festivalis [1491], see BMC and GW.
The Quattuor sermones include: On the Paternoster, the Creed, the Ten Commandments; The Seven Sacraments, Seven Deeds of Mercy, Seven Deadly Sins; Continuation of Deadly Sins; On Contrition, Confession, and Satisfaction.
Title derived from ISTC.

Binding:

19th-century English gilt-stamped calf over paper boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedown and first fly leaf with plain paper fly leaves, additional blanks added at end for missing leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required, printed lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Several contemporary notations in margins. "cc cc" notations marking textual divisions in sermons. English bibliographic description, by Amherst? (third front fly leaf verso).

Provenance:

Francis Hepplewhite, his sale, Paris, Tross, 29 Nov. 1861, lot 39, to: Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (1811-1886), of Hanover, ex libris inscription, 1861 (front endleaf 2 recto) and bibliographic description (front endleaf 3 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Feb. 1870, lot 297, to: Samuel Addington, round label with triple blue circle frame with inscription: 139 (or 119?) Addington (front pastedown), his sale, 24 May 1886, lot 100, to Bernard Quaritch for: William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 345, purchased prior to sale by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Amherst collection, 1908.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books