Accession number
PML 740
Published
Enprynted in the Cyte of London : by Wynken de worde, the yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.ij. [1502].
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Caption title from a1r.
Colophon: Here endeth the booke named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed and translated out of Frenshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the Cyte of London ... by Wynken de worde the yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.ij.
In prose.
Signatures: A⁴; a-ss⁶ tt⁴.
Printer's device: McKerrow, no. 11.
A translation, possibly by Andrew Chertsey, of: L'ordinaire des chrestiens.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: A1-4 and tt4 (the Tabula and last leaf; photostats in the Wynkyn de Worde file). Leaf tt3 with section torn out from middle of leaf and repaired, with text on recto and part of colophon replaced in pen facsimile.
Colophon: Here endeth the booke named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed and translated out of Frenshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the Cyte of London ... by Wynken de worde the yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.ij.
In prose.
Signatures: A⁴; a-ss⁶ tt⁴.
Printer's device: McKerrow, no. 11.
A translation, possibly by Andrew Chertsey, of: L'ordinaire des chrestiens.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: A1-4 and tt4 (the Tabula and last leaf; photostats in the Wynkyn de Worde file). Leaf tt3 with section torn out from middle of leaf and repaired, with text on recto and part of colophon replaced in pen facsimile.
Description
[254] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Contemporary English inscriptions and doodles sporadically throughout in red crayon, perhaps by Matthew Parker or his scribe (see Driver, "Curious Case"). Manuscript fore-edge title.
Provenance
Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-1575), marginal annotations (see Driver, "Curious Case"); John Palmer, inscription, 17th century (leaf R6v); Joseph Gulston (1745-1786); his sale, Mr. Compton, Conduit Street, 8 May 1783 and 26 May 1784; William Herbert (1718-1795); his sales, 10 March 1796 and 21 Nov. 1798; Sir Francis Freeling; his sale, Evans, 25 Nov. 1836, lot 1791 to Thorpe for £5.3.6, sale catalogue cites Herbert and Gulston provenance; [previously cited in record but unable to verify provenance: Thomas Hand; Henry Kock; Thomas Morgan;] William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1891, lot 695; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: 8/12/98 and price code: ol/-/- +___, and "Morris sale lm/-/-" (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
17th/18th-century dark brown calf over paper boards, sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Printer's waste from an unknown 16th-century edition of Eusebius's Historia ecclesiastica.
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