Accession number
PML 20896.1
Creator
Miller, of Abingdon.
Published
[London] : [Wynkyn de Worde], [between 1532-1534].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Imprint from STC; Blayney dates "(1533?)", not as a correction.
Sometimes attributed to Andrew Boorde.
In verse.
Signatures: A⁴ B⁶? [remainder unknown due to incomplete copy]. Leaves signed with title "Mylner of Abyng." in line with printed signature.
Woodcut on title page.
PML copy imperfect, missing leaves B1, B4 and remainder of text after B6.
PML copy is only copy recorded.
Sometimes attributed to Andrew Boorde.
In verse.
Signatures: A⁴ B⁶? [remainder unknown due to incomplete copy]. Leaves signed with title "Mylner of Abyng." in line with printed signature.
Woodcut on title page.
PML copy imperfect, missing leaves B1, B4 and remainder of text after B6.
PML copy is only copy recorded.
Description
[16+] p. : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 18 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript numeral 3 at bottom of title page, likely indicating position in a previous Sammelband.
Provenance
William Willet(?), inscription: "By me william wi[llet]" and a quote from the poet Baptista Manutanus: "Sit licet in natos facies austera parentu[m]. lun(?) equa tamen semp[er] mens est, et amica vo[lun]tas" (leaf A1v); John Bernard, inscription "By me John Bernard" (leaf A1v); Lincoln Cathedral; Rev. Thomas F. Dibdin, see Lincolne Nosegay; Richard Heber, Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, part IV, Evans, 8 Dec. 1834, lot 1563 for £5.7.6 to Thorpe; Christie-Miller, Britwell Court sale, Sotheby's (London), 16 Dec. 1919, lot 58, purchased by Bernard Quaritch for J.P. Morgan, Jr., Dec. 1919.
Binding
Brown straight-grain morocco over paper boards by Charles Lewis, prior to Heber sale.
Classification
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