Bod-Inc: C-199
Chronicles: England
Chronicles of England [English].
Analysis of Content
Aa1v [Table of contents.] ‘A shorte and a breue table on these Cronycles'.’
a1r ‘The Prologue'. Incipit: ‘[I]n so moche that is(!) is necessary . . .’
a2r ‘Fructus temporum'. Incipit: ‘[B]y cause of this boke is made to telle what time onythynge notable was . . .’ A brief history of the world based on the Fasciculus temporum; see C‑196.
b3v Chronicles of England [English]. ‘Regnum Britanie nunc dicitur Anglia'.’ See C‑194.
I4r [First colophon.]
2A1v [Caxton, William: Preface and table of contents.] Caxton, Prologues, 40.
2A1v Higden, Ranulphus: The description of England [English]. Translated by Johannes de Trevisa. Incipit: ‘[F]irste as Galfrydus sayth . . .’ See C‑194.
2D6v [Second colophon.] Caxton, Prologues, 40.
Imprint
Imprint: Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1497-8. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts.
Collation
Collation: Aa a–z [con] A–H6 I4 2A–D6. The gatherings are signed but not numbered.
Illustrations: Five woodcuts, one woodcut diagram: see BMC.
References
ISTC: ic00482000
GW: GW 6675;
Hain: HC 4998;
Goff: Goff C‑482;
BMC: BMC XI;
Proctor: Pr 9707 + 9709;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxv, no. 153; Duff 102 + 114; Matheson 261, no. 6; Oates 4130 + 4133; Sheppard 7452-3; STC 9996 + 13440b.
LCN: 14865517, 14865558
Copies
Copy number: C-199(1)
Part I (gatherings Aa–I) only. Leaf Aa1 mutilated and backed, the wanting text supplied in manuscript. Leaf Aa6 slightly mutilated. Gathering v supplied from a smaller copy.
Binding: Eighteenth-century English gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns; on both covers a dentelle border; foliate centre-piece; rebacked, the old spine laid down.
Size: 286 × 192 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 261 × 181 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes in English.
Provenance: Sir Charles Frederick (1709/10-1785); armorial book-plate; see Howe, Book Plates, 11308. Edmond Malone (1741-1812). Presented in 1821.
SHELFMARK: Mal. 10.
Copy number: C-199(2)
Fragment.
Leaf a2 only.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 248 × 187 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 236 × 167 mm.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce Fragm. 26.
SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. d.5.
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