[Chronicles of England].

Accession number:

PML 718

Uniform title:

Chronicles: England.

Published:

Sanctus Albanus : [Schoolmaster Printer], [approximately 1485]

Description:

[290] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Here begynns a schort [and] breue tabull on thes Cronicles.
Explicit, leaf K10r: Here endeth Cronicles of englo[n]de with the frute of timis. [Printer's mark, printed in red] Sanctus albanus.
Printed in the Schoolmaster Printer's type 2:124G.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a b-z [and] [con] A-I⁸ K¹⁰: 290 leaves, leaves [1]/1, a1, and K10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed in black and red.
Woodcuts, including Tower of Bable and two city views (from one woodblock) typographic diagrams.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 9 leaves: a2-8 (table), a1 (blank), and K10 (blank). Leaves in K remargined, including most of K9 with some text replaced in facsimile.

Binding:

20th-century 1/4 brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. Previously in black morocco by Maltby.

Variant Title:

Cronicles

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive marginal notations throughout text, in multiple secretary and italic hands, 15th-17th century (one note dated 1659, leaf B4v), including keywords, commentary, and underlining. Verse inscription, 16th century (leaves a5r and a7r) and "Sainte praxede wase sister of sainte potoucyane [?]uhich wherem(?)" (leaf K9v). Manuscript title: "W. Caxton's Chronicle or Fructus temporum" (leaf a2r) and foliation, 16th/17th century.

Provenance:

Thomas Tuteville, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf a4r); unidentified purchase inscription, later 17th century: "I gave six shillings & Am[m]ian[us] Marcellin[us] in English (i.e. perhaps ESTC S114268 of 1609) for this book" and bibliographic inscription citing Fuller's Worthies and Pits, De Illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus (leaf [1]/1v); unidentified shelfmark: aa.9 (from previous binding, noted on new front pastedown); William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 215 (in black morocco by Maltby); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased through exchange of previous copy with Bernard Quaritch, Feb. 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books