Accession number
PML 64677
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Object title
The book of fame.
Published
[Westminster] : William Caxton, [1483]
Description
[30] leaves; 40 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine, 1974.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): The book of Fame made by Geffrey Chaucer...
Colophon (leaf d5r): Emprynted by wylliam Caxton.
Printed in Caxton's type 4*:95(100)B.
Collations: a-c⁸ d⁶: 30 leaves, leaves a1 and d6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Not in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.8 cm
PML copy is leaf d4 only (Bk. III, lines 927-1002).
Colophon (leaf d5r): Emprynted by wylliam Caxton.
Printed in Caxton's type 4*:95(100)B.
Collations: a-c⁸ d⁶: 30 leaves, leaves a1 and d6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Not in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.8 cm
PML copy is leaf d4 only (Bk. III, lines 927-1002).
Binding
Single leaf in mat, verso facing outwards, in folder.
Variant title
The hous of fame
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, no rubrication required on PML leaf. Annotations: Heavily inscribed in several contemporary/16th-century hands (leaf d4r): "Thys ys the boke off the gyenepty(?)," "Ihus be my spede in grace and vertu...," and financial notation: xxvi£ xvs iiiid.
Provenance
John Gofray, inscription (d4r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from the Seven Gables Book Shop as the gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine, Jan. 1974.
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