Accession number
PML 20896.2
Creator
Hue, de Rotelande, active 1170-1190.
Published
Enprynted at London : in the Fletestrete, at the synge of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, [approximately 1520-1524].
Notes
Title from STC.
Imprint from colophon (leaf I6v); date suggested by STC.
Signatures: [A?] B-H⁴ I⁶. Leaves signed with title "Ipo." or "Ipomy." in line with printed signature. Leaf B3 missigned H3.
In verse.
Note from STC: Robert Copland's envoi (leaf I6v), indicating he may have printed an early edition, but is not the adapter.
Possibly the earliest surviving edition, cf. Martí.
PML copy is only copy recorded, although there is an imperfect leaf of another edition in the British Library.
The original translated and condensed from the early French text of Hue de Rotelande.
PML copy imperfect, missing quire A. Text begins "Of your court and your norture".
Imprint from colophon (leaf I6v); date suggested by STC.
Signatures: [A?] B-H⁴ I⁶. Leaves signed with title "Ipo." or "Ipomy." in line with printed signature. Leaf B3 missigned H3.
In verse.
Note from STC: Robert Copland's envoi (leaf I6v), indicating he may have printed an early edition, but is not the adapter.
Possibly the earliest surviving edition, cf. Martí.
PML copy is only copy recorded, although there is an imperfect leaf of another edition in the British Library.
The original translated and condensed from the early French text of Hue de Rotelande.
PML copy imperfect, missing quire A. Text begins "Of your court and your norture".
Description
[68+] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
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 of Mylner); John Bernard, inscription "By me John Bernard" (leaf A1v of Mylner); 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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Department