Also assigned to Caxton at Bruges, 1474. GW assigns to Colard Mansion at Bruges, ca. 1476/77.
Collation: [1-12¹⁰; 13-20¹⁰; 21⁶ 22-29¹⁰]: 286 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [12]/10 blank.
Date based on type and paper evidence.
For Caxton's association with David Aubert and the location of his press at Ghent rather than Bruges, see L. Hellinga, "William Caxton, Colard Mansion, and the Printer in Type 1," Bulletin du bibliophile (2011), pp. 86-114 (ISTC).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 23.4 x 19.0 cm
PML copy missing 7 leaves: [1]/1.10, [15]/1.10, [19]/1.10, and [29]/10.
Printed in Caxton's type 1:120B.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): cy commence le volume Intitule le recueil des histories de troyes Compose par venerable homme raoul le fevre prestre chappellain de mon tres redoubte seigneur Monseigneur le Duc Phelippe de bourgoingne En lan de grace. mil. .cccc. lxiiii. [1464].
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Lombards and paragraph marks generally have white (negative) decoration in the red areas. Annotations: No notations in text. Recipe for medicine or paint(?) involving pork fat and pine resin, 15th-/16th-century inscription, partially trimmed (leaf [12]/10r).