Libellus qui informatio puero[rum] appelatur cu[m] modico apparatu noviter co[m]pilat[us] incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 37380
Published: 
[London] : made at the instaunce of George Chastelayn and John Bars: Emprynted by Richarde Pynson, [approximately 1503].
Description: 
[20] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1942.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D4v: Here endeth the accidence made at the instaunce of George Chastelayn and John Bars: Emprynted by Richarde Pynson.
Dated from STC.
Printed in Pynson's types 3*:64G and 7:95G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁴ C⁶ D⁴: 20 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
2 woodcuts: teacher surrounded by students with books on half-title page (leaf A1r) and Crucifixion (leaf D4r).
Previously found in the incunable bibliographies, but now due to date not considered an incunable.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 13 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: D4 (with woodcut and Pynson's device).

Binding: 
Modern blind-tooled full reddish-brown goatskin over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Charlotte Ullman, 1968. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Informatio puerorum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where required). Annotations: 16th-century notations in Latin and English (leaf A1r, trimmed) and pen trials throughout. Inscriptions, 16th century: "Tomtes favent" (leaf C2r) and "Michaell owe knowest kno[...]" (leaf D3r).

Provenance: 
William F., inscription: "Willyam F[??] [?]se this bo[ke?]," 16th century (leaf D3r); Anthony Fawnt (Osborne), inscriptions including: "Antony Fawnt" and "Anthoni fawnt ostborns possessor huius libri," 16th/17th century (leaves A2r, A3r, and D3v); John Baynes, inscription: "Io. Baynes," 17th/18th century (leaf A1r, either side of woodcut); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt & Co., June 1942.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Century: 
16th century
Department: 
Printed Books