Accession number:
PML 715
Uniform title:
Chronicles: England.
Published:
[London] : [William de Machlinia], [approximately 1486]
Description:
[238] leaves ; 25 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Machlinia's types 4:116G and 5:116G.
Signatures: a¹⁰; ²a B-V x-z [and] aa-dd⁸ ee⁴: 238 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto (see BMC; PML 715 with leaf G1.8 in quarto).
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 18.5 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 34 leaves: a¹⁰, ²a⁸, B1, S5, y8, dd⁸ and ee⁴; leaves B3 and I8 mostly torn away, repaired; leaves G8, S4, T2.7 repaired; leaf M6 in duplicate. Leaves G1.8 in quarto.
Binding:
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (25 x 20 cm) sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Multiple marginal notations and inscriptions in various hands, damaged by paper trimming, 15th-16th century (leaves M6v (duplicate), N2v, N7v, P3v, T8v, V1r, x2v, y2r, [and]5r, and bb1r).
Provenance:
15th/16th-century signatures and inscriptions: 1) Lathom family signatures: Edwarde Lathome, Elisabeth Lathom, Wyllm Lathom (leaves L1r, L7v, and N2v), 2) Wyllm Bretter, signature (leaf L7v), 3) William Caldisson, signature and inscription (leaf M4v), 4) John Iplon[? trimmed], signature (leaf O6r), 5) Wyllm Igret yon[? trimmed], signature with decorative cadell and inscription: "When I have yt I wyll godd[es] cup on yt that beyll" (leaf R2v), 6) John J. Cosyn, signature with decorative cadell (leaf V7v), 7) John Whud, signature (leaf [and]1v); Edward Norris, inscription and price: "Edwarde Norris Esquire / Othe this Book god save / him lonnge to Lyve in gods faver. / viiis vid," 17th century (leaf R6v); unidentified shelfmark: [?]3 A.12 (front pastedown, partially covered by PML booklabel); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 130, 22/4/96 and price code: wom/-/- less 10% +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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