Accession number
PML 769
Published
[London] : by me Iulyan Notary dwellynge in powlys chyrch yarde besyde [ye] westedore by my lordes palyes, enprynted in the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.&.xv. [1515].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Known as "The Saint Albans chronicle"; not the same compilation as the "Chronicles of England" first printed by Caxton (STC 9991-4).
Includes "The dyscrypcyon of Englonde." an excerpt from: Higden, Ranulf. Polycronicon.
Text begins on a1r: "In soo moche that it is necessary to all creatures of crysten relygyon ..."
Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁴ a-v⁶ x⁸ y-z⁶ [et]⁴.
Printed in 2 columns, 51 lines with headlines and pagination; with woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. f.5, 235 x 166 mm text-leaf.
Colophon: Cxxviii verso: "Here endeth this present Cronycle of Englonde with the fruyte of tymes. compyled in a book. And also newely Enprynted in the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.&.xv. by me Iulyan Notary dwellynge in powlys chyrch yarde besyde [ye] westedore by my lordes palyes".
Second text, final [16] leaves, beginning on signature [y1r]: Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the whyche treateth of the descripcion of this lo[n]de whiche of old thyme was named Albyon."
Colophon, leaf [16], at end: "Enprynted at Londo[n] in powlys chyrche yarde at the west dore of powlys besyde my lorde of londons palays by me Iulyan Notary [Maltese cross] In the yere of our lorde god.M.CCCCC.xv."
Contains some criblé factotums.
Known as "The Saint Albans chronicle"; not the same compilation as the "Chronicles of England" first printed by Caxton (STC 9991-4).
Includes "The dyscrypcyon of Englonde." an excerpt from: Higden, Ranulf. Polycronicon.
Text begins on a1r: "In soo moche that it is necessary to all creatures of crysten relygyon ..."
Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁴ a-v⁶ x⁸ y-z⁶ [et]⁴.
Printed in 2 columns, 51 lines with headlines and pagination; with woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. f.5, 235 x 166 mm text-leaf.
Colophon: Cxxviii verso: "Here endeth this present Cronycle of Englonde with the fruyte of tymes. compyled in a book. And also newely Enprynted in the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.&.xv. by me Iulyan Notary dwellynge in powlys chyrch yarde besyde [ye] westedore by my lordes palyes".
Second text, final [16] leaves, beginning on signature [y1r]: Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the whyche treateth of the descripcion of this lo[n]de whiche of old thyme was named Albyon."
Colophon, leaf [16], at end: "Enprynted at Londo[n] in powlys chyrche yarde at the west dore of powlys besyde my lorde of londons palays by me Iulyan Notary [Maltese cross] In the yere of our lorde god.M.CCCCC.xv."
Contains some criblé factotums.
Description
[4], Cxxviii, [16] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotation, upside down, at the foot of u6v.
Provenance
From the collection of Pierpont Morgan,
Binding
Olive brown morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford. Spine title "Caxton's Chronicle of England".
Classification
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