Accession number
PML 783
Object title
[Quattuor sermones].
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.
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.
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