Accession number:
PML 654
Published:
[Antwerp : A. van Berghen, 1503 or 1504?]
Description:
[11], cxvii (i.e. cxix) leaves ; 26 cm
Credit:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes:
1st ed.
A commonplace-book rather than a chronicle. Contains the first edition of "The nut-brown maid" (leaves lxxii-lxxvii).
Also known as: The customs of London. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Begins: In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs custosmairs and sherefs of the cite of Londo[n] from the tyme of King Richard the Furst ...
Collation: 12 prel. leaves = A⁴, A⁸; text, B⁴, C-E⁸, F-Q⁶, R⁸, S-V⁶. Lacking the 1st and last blanks and leaves I2 and V5, supplied in facsimile? Numb. fol. xvii in duplicate.
Without title or colophon. Text begins at head of table of contents.
Binding:
Early 16th century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; Bennett catalog suggests binding taken from another book; rebacked.
Variant Title:
Customs of London
Provenance:
From the libraries of the Earl of Aylesford, with his bookplate, the James Toovey; Pierpont Morgan.
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