Accession number
PML 18563
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published
Printed at Lo[n]don : By Thomas Godfray, the yere of our lorde. M.D.xxxii. [1532].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Edited by William Thynne, who is named on A2v.
Includes a number of spurious works.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2P⁶ 2Q⁶(-2Q3+'2Q3'.1,'2Q4'.1) 2R-3V⁶.
"The romaunt of the rose", "Troylus and Creseyde", "Boetius de consolatione philosophie", "How pite is ded and beried in a gentyll hert", and "The testament of loue" each have separate divisional title; foliation and register are continuous. "The conclusions of the astrolabie has a full-page title on the verso of a text leaf.
2Q3 is cancelled by four leaves bearing "The testament of Creseyde" by Robert Henryson. Variant: 2Q3 uncancelled (quire is in 6).
First collected ed.
Britwell copy had 3 extra ff. in sign Q.
PML copy with title page and final leaf in facsimile.
Edited by William Thynne, who is named on A2v.
Includes a number of spurious works.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2P⁶ 2Q⁶(-2Q3+'2Q3'.1,'2Q4'.1) 2R-3V⁶.
"The romaunt of the rose", "Troylus and Creseyde", "Boetius de consolatione philosophie", "How pite is ded and beried in a gentyll hert", and "The testament of loue" each have separate divisional title; foliation and register are continuous. "The conclusions of the astrolabie has a full-page title on the verso of a text leaf.
2Q3 is cancelled by four leaves bearing "The testament of Creseyde" by Robert Henryson. Variant: 2Q3 uncancelled (quire is in 6).
First collected ed.
Britwell copy had 3 extra ff. in sign Q.
PML copy with title page and final leaf in facsimile.
Description
[10], CC.xix, [3], CC.xx-CCC, CCC-CCC.lxxxiii leaves : illustrated ; 31.5 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional manicules, several with initials C.L.P.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from H.S. Nichols, Oct. 1908.
Binding
Red morocco tooled binding by Duprez Lahey, in box.
Classification
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Department