Accession number
PML 655
Creator
Arnold, Richard, -1521?
Published
[Antwerp : A. van Berghen, 1503 or 1504?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection; 1900.
Notes
1st ed., with additions from the 2nd printed at Southwark by Peter Treveris, 1521.
A commonplace-book rather than a chronicle. Contains the first edition of "The nut-brown maid" (leaves lxxv-lxxvii).
Also known as: The customs of London. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Begins: In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs custosmairs and sherefs of the cite of Londo[n] from the tyme of King Richard the Furst ...
Collation: A⁴ (A¹, a blank, lacking), A⁸ (the f. A⁸ & 4 leaves following A⁴ from 2nd ed.); B⁴, C-E⁸ (6 leaves = D⁸-E⁵ from 2nd ed.), F-Q⁶ (h1 has different signature letter from 1st ed and P⁵ has complete page numbering lxxxvii, which in 1st ed. is xvii), R⁸ (R⁸ is from 2nd ed.), S-V⁶ (S¹-³ from 2nd ed., & V⁶, a blank, lacking).
Without title or colophon. Text begins at head of table of contents.
A commonplace-book rather than a chronicle. Contains the first edition of "The nut-brown maid" (leaves lxxv-lxxvii).
Also known as: The customs of London. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Begins: In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs custosmairs and sherefs of the cite of Londo[n] from the tyme of King Richard the Furst ...
Collation: A⁴ (A¹, a blank, lacking), A⁸ (the f. A⁸ & 4 leaves following A⁴ from 2nd ed.); B⁴, C-E⁸ (6 leaves = D⁸-E⁵ from 2nd ed.), F-Q⁶ (h1 has different signature letter from 1st ed and P⁵ has complete page numbering lxxxvii, which in 1st ed. is xvii), R⁸ (R⁸ is from 2nd ed.), S-V⁶ (S¹-³ from 2nd ed., & V⁶, a blank, lacking).
Without title or colophon. Text begins at head of table of contents.
Description
[11], cxvii (i.e. cxix) leaves ; 26 cm
Provenance
From the library of Theodore Irwin.
Binding
Modern half-binding by Duprez-Lahey. Griswold arms on red morocco pasted inside front cover.
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