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.
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
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Department