[Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry].

Accession number:

PML 721

Author:

Berners, Juliana, 1388?-

Published:

Sanctus Albanus : [Schoolmaster Printer], [not before 1486].

Description:

[90] leaves : illustrations (woodcut heraldic shields) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Notes:

Title, printer, and date from ISTC.
Colophon, leaf f10r: [Printer's device, printed in red] Sanctus albanus:.
Explicit, leaf f9v: Here in thys boke afore at contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of Cootarmuris a nobull werke. And here now endyth the boke of blasyng of armys translatyt and compylyt togeyr at Seynt albons the yere from thincarnacion of owre lorde Ih[es]u Crist .M.CCCC.lxxx vi.
Printed in the Schoolmaster Printer's types 2:124G and 4:140G.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴ e-f⁸; ²a-b⁶; c-e⁸ f¹⁰: 90 leaves, leaves a1 and ²b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Text printed in black with red initials and red or blue paragraph marks, armorial shields in Book of Heraldry printed in black, red, blue, and gold.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and ²b6 (blanks), replaced with contemporary leaves with p/quatrefoil watermarks. Shield of Scotland (leaf e7r) cut out and replaced/painted in.

Binding:

16th-century blind-rolled English (more likely French?) calf over paper boards (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked (Bennett catalogue suggests this is a remboitage binding, recently placed on the text block). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt and gauffered edges. 4 ties, missing. Manuscript fore-edge title in red and blue added after gauffering, probably in 19th century.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Unidentified inscription below printer's mark, washed (leaf f10r).

Provenance:

William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon (1807-1888), provenance identified on manuscript bibliographic note (laid-in), citing replaced Scottish shield but claiming both original blanks present, his sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1883; James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books