Thy prouffytable boke for man[n]es soule, and right confortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called the chastysing of goddes chyldern.

Accession number:

PML 722

Published:

[Westminster] : [Wynkyn de Worde], [approximately 1492-1493].

Description:

[48] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. PML Checklist dates as [1491], GW as [about 1494].
Printed in De Worde's types 1:120G and 2:114G.
Signatures: [1]²; A-G⁶ H⁴: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials and paragraph marks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.2 cm.
PML copy with leaf [1]/1 repaired at gutter and leaf [1]/2 remargined at outer edge.

Binding:

19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled straight-grained maroon morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain maroon paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Chastysing of goddes Chyldern

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive underlining and marginal Nota marks throughout the text. Several early inscriptions: three variants of a couplet "If worde and ded agre / Your fyrnd asured wyll I be" (leaf [1]/1r; see DIMEV 2426); "frenche englyshe and latyne / By me cockes butler I do youe / not thinke yt well d[??]" (leaf [1]/2r).

Provenance:

William Cott, early inscription: "Wylliam cott ys a [??]" (leaf a1r); John Rennie (1761-1821), his sale, Evans, part I, 13 July 1829, lot 567 (as Caxton) for £30.9.0 to Hering (although Blades, Caxton, 244 says to R. Wilkes for £35.14.0) for: Frederick Perkins, armorial bookplate, with shelfmark: L/K Fol. 9 (front pastedown) and shelfmark in red ink: L/K (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1889, lot 385 (as Caxton) to Quaritch; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 135, 22/4/96 and price code: omm/-/- less 10% +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books