tib01029600

Text-inc Id:

tib01029600

Bod-inc Id:

B-481

Headings:

Book of Courtesy Fragment.

Imprint:

Westminster: [Wynkyn de Worde, 1491-3]. 4°. Ascribed to Wynkyn de Worde on the basis of the printer's device; dated on the basis of the type which was not in use after 1493.

Collation:

Type: 120 G. 23 lines on ‘Bb'. Type area: 138 ×91 mm on ‘Bb'. Watermark: Crown above an eight-pointed star.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01029600 HC 4928; Pr 9689; Blades 94; de Ricci, Caxton, 103; Douce Legacy, no. 114; Duff 54; Sheppard 7425; STC 3304. LCN: 13911223

Copies:

1. B-481(1) Copy Two leaves only, proofs, one signed Bb, the other unsigned, each printed on one side: the contents of the leaves are noted in John Hodgkin, ‘Proper Terms . . .', Transactions of the Philological Society, Supplement (1907-10), 1-187, at 6, 9, 42, 61; in Rachel Hands, English Hawking and Hunting in ‘The Boke of St. Albans’ (Oxford, 1975), pp. xlviii–xlix; and in David Scott-Macnab, A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century: the 'JB Treatise', Medium Aevum Monographs, NS 23 (Oxford, 2003), with this copy referred to at 61-2. Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library. Nineteenth-century(?) paper wrappers surrounding leaves. Size of leaves: 195 × 135 mm. ‘[ ]s' in black ink. Date ‘1676' in black ink. A note by Douce on the inside of the paper wrapper. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834). Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. e.4.