Accession number
PML 17690
Published
Venundantur Londonij [i.e. Antwerp] : apud Petrum kaetz [i.e. Christopher Endthoven], Anno. M.ccccc.xxiiij. die vero. xxvij. Noue[m]bris [27 November 1524].
Notes
Place of publication and printer's name from STC; publication date from colophon, which reads: Expliciunt hore diue virginis Marie secundum ritum insignis ecclesie Saru[m]. Anno. M.ccccc.xxiiij. die vero. xxvij. Noue[m]bris.
Printed in red and black with 79 small woodcuts.
Signatures: [cross]⁸; A-X⁸, AA-BB⁸.
Not in Hoskins.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 192 x 132 mm.
Printed in red and black with 79 small woodcuts.
Signatures: [cross]⁸; A-X⁸, AA-BB⁸.
Not in Hoskins.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 192 x 132 mm.
Description
192 leaves (26 lines) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 x 14 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
All references to pope, "pape," scraped or crossed out in calendar and text. A few marginalia, including references to textual subjects or where to find Latin text in English. Suffrage to Thomas a Becket crossed out, but inscription below (from Foxe's Book of Martyrs): "By the bloud of thomas w[hich] he for the did spend / Bring us unto heaven wher thomas did ascend."
Provenance
Elizabeth and William Dacre (of the Dacre baronage: perhaps William (1500-1562) and his wife Elizabeth Talbot (1507-1552)?), inscriptions, 16th century: "This bouke is myen Elyzabeth Dacre" (leaf B5r) and William's signatures (leaf BB8v); Robert Whyan(?), signature (leaf BB8v, under Bedfordshire stamp); Thomas Archer (1554-1630?, the English divine? or the London bookseller, active 1603-34), inscription and monogram, 17th century (leaf [cross]1r); Bedfordshire Library, inscription: "E Bbiliotheca Bedfordiensi," 17th century (leaf [cross]1r) and library stamp, 19th century (leaves [cross]1r and BB8v); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1911.
Binding
Sixteenth-century blind-rolled calf over paper boards; rebacked. 2 clasps lacking.
Classification
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