Accession number:
PML 784.2
Uniform title:
Love.
Published:
[Westminster] : Wynkyn de Worde, [approximately 1492-1493]
Description:
[48] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Amherst collection, 1908.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf A1r: This tretyse is of loue and spekyth of iiij of the most specyall louys that ben in the worlde and shewyth veryly and perfitely bi gret resons and causis.
Imprint from ISTC. De Worde's printer's mark, leaf H6r.
Printed in De Worde's types 1:120G and 2:114G.
Signatures: A-H⁶: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials and paragraph marks.
Frequently found with the Chastising of God's Children, H 4920 (I).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.9 x 19.5 cm.
Binding:
19th century English full brown goatskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an earlier style (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Tretyse of loue
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required, printed initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Modern notation identifying as De Worde's printing, 1493 (leaf H6r). Leaf A3 with outer edge remargined.
Provenance:
Elizabeth Wyllowby, nun of Campsey Priory (Suffolk, suppressed 1536), gift inscription to Catherine Symond: "... Nun of Campesey, named Elyzabeth Wyllowby, That she gives this Book to Dame Cateryne Symonde, under the Condition, That, in no wise, she sell it, or give it from the House of Campessey: But she shall give it to one of her Sisters" (leaf H6v of Treatise of Love); Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), C&P notation (leaf [1]/1r of Chastysing), his sale, part VIII, 26 April 1727, lot 2072, to: Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford, with additional manuscript title page (before leaf [1]/1r of Chastysing) by Randal Minshull, Harley's librarian, the printed books from the Oxford library were sold by his widow, Henrietta Cavendish (1694-1755), in 1743 to: Thomas Osborne, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, III (1744), no. 1560 (including both Chastysing and Treatise on Love); George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), Fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, White Knights Library sale, Evans, part I, 7 June 1819, lot 970 for £32.11.0 to: Heneage Finch (1786-1859), 5th Earl of Aylesford, crest on binding, through inheritance to: Heneage Finch (1849-1885), 7th Earl of Aylesford, his sale, Christie's, 12 March 1888, lot 409, to Quaritch for: William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and provenance inscription (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 180, purchased prior to sale by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Amherst collection, 1908.
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