Accession number:
PML 696
Published:
[Westminster : William Caxton, 1484]
Description:
[16] leaves ; (folio)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Here begynneth the lyf of the holy [and] blessid vyrgyn saynt Wenefryde
Imprint based on paper evidence.
Printed in Caxton's type 4:95 (100)B*.
Collation: a-b⁸: 16 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Caxton's translation of an abridged version of the Vita Sanctae Wenefredae of Robert of Shrewsbury (see BMC).
PML 696 leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 18.8 cm.
PML 696 is leaf a6 only.
Binding:
In red portfolio.
Variant Title:
The life of the holy and blessed virgin Saint Winifred.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: No rubrication on this leaf. Annotations: Few 18th-/19th-century markings, illegible. "808" in top left corner of recto.
Provenance:
[Does this leaf come from John Bagford like BL and Oxford leaves, also from quire a?;] Richard Bennett (1849-1930); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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