Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Accession number: 
PML 44
Author: 
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Eggestein], [not after 1475]
Description: 
[98] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Printed in Eggestein's type 93 (BMC).
The Włocławek copy has the rubricator's date 1475. Formerly dated about 1475-78.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-5¹⁰ 6⁶ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁶]: 98 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled brown morocco, in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (29.2 x 21.7 cm). Parchment pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographical note (front fly leaf recto); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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