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Quattuor sermones.

Accession number
PML 726.2
Object title

Quattuor sermones.

Published

In Westmonesterio : [Wynkyn de Worde], Anno domini .M.cccc.xciiii. [1494].

Description

[50] leaves ; 18 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC. Title in headline: Quatuor sermones.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G6r: Finitum et completu[m] in westmonesterio. Anno domini .M.cccc.xciiii.
Signatures: A-D⁸ E-G⁶: 50 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Register and printer's mark (McKerrow no. 1) on leaf G6r.
Probably issued with John Mirk, Liber festivalis, 1493.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.2 x 12.7 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: G3-5, and bottom-half of G6 (with printer's mark).
Binding
Modern full dark blue goatskin over paper boards (18 x 13.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal annotations (some partially obliterated by trimming) in at least two different hands, various passages underlined, a couple of manicules, including extensive English and Latin inscriptions (leaves [rum]6 and G6) and a drawing of a praying female figure (leaf C5v of Sermones). Alphabet index added to rear fly leaves, perhaps by Jeffries.
Provenance
Unidentified contemporary ownership inscription (leaf [rum]6r of Liber Festivalis); John Jefferies, Broadway (Manchester, Eng?), 15 Aug. 1709, inscription (front fly leaf verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 88, 4/2/95 and price codes: sl/o/- and rebinding (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department