Accession number:
PML 755
Published:
[London] : [Richard Pynson], [1496]
Description:
[62] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 28 x 23 cm. (fol)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Notes:
Title from explicit (leaf I6r).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Pynson's type 2:101B.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E-F⁸ G-I⁶: 62 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut of Henry VII & his court on leaf A1r; Pynson's printer's device on leaf I6v.
"Incipit tabula huius libri" (leaf A1v).
Captial spaces, some with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 19.3 cm.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in an elaborate retrospective style, over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Tenores novelli
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary red initials, some paragraph marks highlighted in red, and other textual highlights over-written in red (done assiduously until c3v then ceases entirely after d2v). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in at least two hands, throughout, and two sets of foliation.
Provenance:
Ralph Hulme, of Manchester, inscription: "Iste liber pertinet Radulpho hulme de manchestur In comitate lacncastre," 16th century (leaf I6r; same provenance as a copy of Natura brevium in Cambridge, King's College); unidentified 18th/19th-century "collated and perfect" inscriptions (leaf A1r and I6v); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1903.
Classification:
Catalog Link:
Department: