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This mater treateth of a merchauntes wyfe that afterwards went lyke a man and becam a great Lorde and was called Frederyke of Jennen afterwarde.

Accession number
PML 20938
Creator
Frederick, of Jennen.
Published
Impry[n]ted i[n] Anwarpe : by me Joh[a]n Dusborowghe, in the yere of our lorde god a. M.CCCCC. and xviii [1518].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Colophon (leaf E4r): Thus endeth this lyttell storye of lorde Frederyke Impry[n]ted i[n] Anwarpe [sic] by me Joh[a]n Dusborowghe dwellynge beysde [th]e Camerporte in the yere of our lorde god a. M.CCCCC. and xviii.
Only complete copy known. British Library has fragment of one leaf (Bagford fragment) of leaf B6.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C-D⁴ E⁶: 26 leaves, leaf E6 blank.
Woodcuts at beginning of each chapter.
PML copy lacks leaf E6 (blank). English arms on leaf E5r hand colored.
Description
[26] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (4to)
Provenance
[Previously bound in a Sammelband with 11 other titles, including Lyfe of Virgilius (now PML 20939), see Proctor, Jan Van Doesborgh, Printer at Antwerp, no. 17] James West, his sale, Langford, 29 March 1773, lot 1851, to Ratcliffe for £2.17.6; John Ratcliffe, his sale (with volume broken up), Christie, 27 March 1776; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 6377 for £65.2.0; George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (White Knights Library), his sale, Evans, 7 June 1819, lot 1726, to Knell for £44.12.6; sold at auction at Evans, 5 June 1823, lot 656, to Thorpe for Heber for £24.10.0; Richard Heber, his sale, Sotheby, pt. IX, 11 April 1836, lot 1267 to Thorpe for Christie Miller for £16; Christie Miller/Britwell Court sale, 1919, to Bernard Quaritch; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Quaritch, 1920.
Binding
Tan calf with gilt-stamped arms of the Duke of Roxburghe.
Classification
Department