Accession number
PML 17691
Published
London : Richarde Fawkes, M.CCCCC.xxx. the fourthe day of the moneth of Nouember [4 November 1530]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf GG3r): Fynysshed and impryn [sic] in the suburbes of the famous cytye of Lo[n]don withoute temple barre by me Richarde Fawkes. dwellynge in Durresme rentes or else in Powles churcheyerde at the sygne of the. A.B.C. The yere of oure Lorde god a. M.CCCCC.xxx. the fourthe day of the moneth of Nouember.
This work, written for the sisters of Syon abbey, has been attributed to Thomas Gascoigne.
Signatures: A-Y⁶, AA-FF⁶ GG⁴, a-d⁶: 196 leaves, leaf GG4 blank.
Woodcut on A1v signed EG.
Collation - 196ff = Title with woodcut in border, recto, verso full-page cut with border; Prologues, A2-A6; Chapytres, A6-B1r, verso with woodcut of Annunciation; Text of divine Servyce, B2-G2 and of fyrste part (H-I-XXXI).
Part II - Of Redynge, G3-G6r, verso half-title; Servyces of 7 days; Sonday H5-R6r, verso a full-page cut with border; Services of other days, S1-Y6, AA1-EE6; Four feastes, FF1-GG3r, with colophon, GG3v printer's mark in border; GG a blank leaf.
Pt. III - The masses - a1 (with woodcut)-d4 without colophon.
Perfect copy, very rare.
This work, written for the sisters of Syon abbey, has been attributed to Thomas Gascoigne.
Signatures: A-Y⁶, AA-FF⁶ GG⁴, a-d⁶: 196 leaves, leaf GG4 blank.
Woodcut on A1v signed EG.
Collation - 196ff = Title with woodcut in border, recto, verso full-page cut with border; Prologues, A2-A6; Chapytres, A6-B1r, verso with woodcut of Annunciation; Text of divine Servyce, B2-G2 and of fyrste part (H-I-XXXI).
Part II - Of Redynge, G3-G6r, verso half-title; Servyces of 7 days; Sonday H5-R6r, verso a full-page cut with border; Services of other days, S1-Y6, AA1-EE6; Four feastes, FF1-GG3r, with colophon, GG3v printer's mark in border; GG a blank leaf.
Pt. III - The masses - a1 (with woodcut)-d4 without colophon.
Perfect copy, very rare.
Description
[7], Clxxxix leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 2⁰.
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensive marginalia (by King?) throughout in same hand as writing on the blank leaf which is dated July 25, 1682: "Notes by some zealous Protestant, everywhere exclaiming against the Superstition, idolatry, Blasphemy, lies, and Impostures it contains to the Dishonour of God, and the everlasting Infamy of the Church that owns the abominable Worship directed to therein" (cf. Bibl. Harl.); also some marginalia in a 16th-century hand. Auction marks on front paste-down from Bibliotheca Westiana, 1773; inscribed on first fly-leaf: Wm Herbert, 1773.
Provenance
Richard Smith (Bibliotheca Smithiana, 10 June 1682); Maurice King, purchased at the sale of Richard Smith's books; Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford (Cat. Bibl. Harleianae, no. 1550); James West (Bibliotheca Westiana, 1773, no. 1879); William Herbert; Joseph Leycester, bookplate; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), his sale, 1909 lot 608; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1911.
Binding
Quarter brown goatskin, gilt title on spine, with decorated paper-covered boards, by Duprez-Lahey.
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