Year Book, 36 Henry VI.

Accession number: 
PML 710
Published: 
[London] : [John Lettou and William de Machlinia], [approximately 1482-1483]
Description: 
[40] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Caption, leaf a1r: Michaelis .xxxvi. Henrici sexti.
Explicit, leaf e7v: Explicit annus .xxxvi[us]. Henrici sexti Termino michaelis.
Imprint from STC.
Printed in types 1:140G and 2:102G.
Signatures: a-e⁸: 40 leaves, leaf e8 blank.
Text in Law French.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 18.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: e1, replaced in facsimile, and e8 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (27.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Statuta anni XXXVI Henrici VI

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary English rubrication, red initial and L-brackets around keywords (leaf a1r only). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout. Title inscription on fore-edge largely concealed by gilding.

Provenance: 
Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from J.O. Wright, Aug. 1887, with price code: $cya (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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