Hrre [sic] folowyth the interpretac[i]on of the names of goddis and goddesses of this treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte.

Accession number: 
PML 737.2
Uniform title: 
Assembly of the gods.
Published: 
[Westminster] : [Wynkyn de Worde], [1498]
Description: 
[32] pages : illustrations (woodcut) ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption title, leaf A1r.
Imprint from STC; Caxton's device A appears on C3v.
Printed in de Worde's type 6:135G and 4a:94G.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴: 18 leaves, leaf C4 blank. Leaf C1v signed C2, leaf C2 signed C3.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
An edition of: The assembly of the gods.
Misattributed to John Lydgate on C3v: Thus endeth this lytyll moralized treatyse compiled by dan John Lydgat somtyme monke of Bury, on whose soule god have mercy.
In verse.
Probably based by an anonymous author on Christine de Pisan's Epître d'Othéa.
A2r text begins: Sholde be for euer whyle the worlde laste.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: C4 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full goatskin, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Here folowyth the interpretacyon of the names of goddis and goddesses of this treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 29.E (front pastedown), bibliographic note stating only known perfect copy (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 1048; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 267, 1/7/97 and price code: wmmm/-/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books