tic00430000

Text-inc Id:

tic00430000

Bod-inc Id:

C-171

Headings:

Chastising Fragment. The Chastysing of goddes Chyldern [English].

Analysis of content:

1. The Chastising of God's Children, ed. Joyce Bazire and Eric Colledge (Oxford, 1957). For further discussion of the text and its derivation see BMC, below and the references given there.

Imprint:

[Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1492-3]. Folio. As dated by BMC; Sheppard dates [1493], GW [c.1494].

Collation:

[*²] A–G⁶ H⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00430000 H 4290 (I); Goff C‑430; BMC XI 182; GW 6583; Pr 9688; de Ricci, Caxton, 104; Duff 85; Oates 4115-16; Sheppard 7428; STC 5065. LCN: 14838476

Copies:

1. C-171(1) Copy Leaves F2-3 only, cropped and joined together with transparent paper, being parts of chapters 24 and 25. Binding: Cloth. Removed from the binding of Desiderius Erasmus, Ecclesiastae, sive de ratione concionandi libri quatuor (Antwerp: Guilielmus Montanus, 1539, Crynes 666), for which see below. Former binding (of Crynes 666): Sixteenth-century English (London) blind-tooled calf over pasteboards; both covers are decorated with a repeated Heads in Medallion roll, for which see Oldham, English Blind-stamped Bindings, 51 HM.a (12), and pl. XLVII roll 781; repeated gold-tooled fleuron on the spine; remains of a blue and red cloth tie inside the upper cover, other ties lost. '666' in black in large figures across the spine. Size: 229 × 172 × 4 mm. Size of leaf: 194 × 165 mm. Reinforcing slip in Crynes 666: part of a fifteenth-century petition of Stephen Smyth (fl. 1433?-1481/2), haberdasher of London against John Wy[ ](?), with incipit: 'Stephanus Smyth haberdasher petit versus Joh[ann]e[m] Wy[ ] ...'; for Smyth see Sylvia L. Thrupp, The Merchant Class of Medieval London 1300-1500 (Ann Arbor, 1962), 157, note 4, where he is noted as having been assessor for subscriptions to a loan to the king, and a trustee for the son of a wealthy draper, with further references. Early marginal notes in Latin. Provenance: Nathaniel Crynes (1686-1745). Bequeathed in 1745. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. e. E3.1492.1. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. E1.2.