Liber festivalis.

Accession number:

PML 726.1

Author:

Mirk, John, active 1403?

Published:

In Westmonesterio : [Wynkyn de Worde], Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxxiii. [1493].

Description:

[1], i-CC, [1] leaves ; 18 cm. (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [rum]5v: Finitum et completum in westmonesterio Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxxiii.
Printed in de Worde's type 5:95B.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [et] [con] [rum]⁶: 202 leaves, leaves a1 and [rum]6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
De Worde's printer's device (McKerrow no. 1), leaf [rum]5v.
Probably issued with Quattuor Sermones, 1494.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.2 x 12.7 cm.
PML copy missing 11 leaves: a1.8, a2.7, b1-7, v6-8.

Binding:

Modern full dark blue goatskin over paper boards (18 x 13.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal annotations (some partially obliterated by trimming) in at least two different hands, various passages underlined, a couple of manicules, including extensive English and Latin inscriptions (leaves [rum]6 and G6) and a drawing of a praying female figure (leaf C5v of Sermones). Alphabet index added to rear fly leaves, perhaps by Jeffries.

Provenance:

Unidentified contemporary ownership inscription (leaf [rum]6r); John Jefferies, Broadway (Manchester, Eng?), 15 Aug. 1709, inscription (front fly leaf verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 88, 4/2/95 and price codes: sl/o/- and rebinding (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books