Diues [and] paup[er].

Accession number:

PML 752

Author:

Parker, Henry, -1470.

Published:

London : emprentyd by me Richard Pynson, the v. day of Juyl ... M.CCCC.lxxxxiii [5 July 1493].

Description:

[244] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf I7v: Here endith a compendiouse treetise dyalogue. of Diues [and] paup[er]. that is to say. the riche [and] the pore fructuously tretyng vpon the x. co[m]mau[n]dementes/ fynisshed the v. day of Iuyl. the yere of oure lord god. M.CCCC.lxxxxiii. Emprentyd by me Richard Pynson at the temple barre. of london. Deo gracias.
Printed in Pynson's types 4:114G and 5:114G.
Signatures: a-b⁶; ²a-v A-I⁸: 244 leaves. Leaves c1-4 signed c2-c5.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: a1 (blank), a6 (replaced in facsimile on 15th-century paper removed from unknown book: ruled and foliated 64), ²a1 (blank), and I8 (with Pynson's device). Leaves h2, n1-s1, I2 inlaid from another copy (26 x 17.5 cm).

Binding:

19th-century (before 1857) English full brown goatskin, blid-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (29 x 21 cm) sewn on 5 supports by Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Dives and Pauper

Inscriptions/Markings:

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

Provenance:

[John Wilks (1765-1854), his sale, Sotheby, 12 March 1847, lot 913 for £50, to Sir T. Ph[illips? -- see digitized catalogue] (if Wilks' copy went to Phillips, then likely not PML copy);] Henry Stevens (1819-1886), his sale, Sotheby's, 20 Aug. 1857, for 513 (citing binding and facsimile/missing/inlaid leaves) for £50 to: William Tite (1798-1873), purchase inscription, 1857, and shelfmark: [erased] Centre Division Shelf 4 (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby, 18 May 1874, lot 930 (citing Wilks and Stevens' provenance); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 137, 22/4/96 (perhaps Sotheby's, J. Tobin Bush sale?) and price code: ae/-/- less 10% +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books