Tenir per seruice de chiualer: est a tenir per homage foialte [et] estuage [et] tret a luy gardre mariage [et] relif[e] ...

Accession number:

PML 33723.1

Uniform title:

Tenures, sive old tenures. French.

Published:

[London] : empryntyd by me Rychard Pynson, [about 1494]

Description:

[16] p. ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1937.

Notes:

The old tenures.
Title from opening words of text (leaf a2r), which has line break: ho- / mage.
Printer's name from English colophon (leaf a8v): This booke with the Natura breuium was empryntyd by me Rychard Pynson at the instaunce of my maistres of the co[m]pany of stronde Inne with oute tempyll Barre. off london[ensis].
Imprint date from ISTC.
Printed in Pynson's types 2:101B and 5:114G.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut with English coat-of-arms, Tudor rose, and portcullis (leaf a1v).
Spaces left for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.

Binding:

18th-century(?) English blind-tooled brown pigskin over paper boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Old tenures

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Heavily annotated in several 16th-century hands (Sakevyle, Boorde, and Griffith) and Roman numeral foliation starting on leaf a2r.

Provenance:

John Sackville (d. 1557); George Boorde (active 1547-1556), ownership inscriptions on first leaves of Old Tenures and Natura brevium, including: "George Boorde. Thys Booke was geven to George Boorde by his [??] Johan Sakevyle the fyrst yere of kynge Edward ye sixt [i.e. 1547]" (leaf a1r of Old Tenures)," "George Boorde berythe name to be owner of thys Booke 1556" (leaf a1r of Natura brevium), and initial cyphers (leaf A1r of Tenores novelli); Thomas Griffith, signatures at colophons of each work, 16th century; G.R. Corner, FSA (d. 1863), notes referencing Stow's Survey; his sale ("Library of a Gentleman"), Sotheby's, 11 May 1863, lot 870; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, March 1937.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books