tic00478000

Text-inc Id:

tic00478000

Bod-inc Id:

C-195

Headings:

Chronicles: England Chronicles of England.

Analysis of content:

1. [*2r] [Table of contents.]
2. a2r Chronicles of England. See C‑194.

Imprint:

Westminster: William Caxton, 8 Oct. 1482. Folio.

Collation:

[*] a–x⁸ y⁶. Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed. Leaves f₂ and f₃ erroneously signed e₂ and e₃.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00478000 GW 6671; HC 5002; Goff C‑478; BMC XI; Pr 9646; Blake 22 B17; de Ricci, Caxton, 30; Duff 98; Matheson 259, no. 2; Oates 4082-4; Painter, Caxton, 213; Sheppard 7386; STC 9992. LCN: 14863741

Copies:

1. C-195(1) Copy Wanting sheets [*1] and [*2] and leaves a1,2,3,8, g1, k1, o1.8, q1-3, y5.6. The leaves in gatherings [*] and a are mutilated and mounted. Leaf q6 misbound before p1. Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English reversed calf. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. Size: 260 × 180 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 255 × 154 mm. A few marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand, cropped. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: Several early names, heavily cropped: on g8r: ‘Thomas Attabey [Allabey?] Foonmend(?)' [perhaps a Welsh placename (ex informatione Julian Roberts]; on k7r: ‘William Foulkes', on n1r: ‘Rober[t] Aret . . .'(?), on q6r: ‘Robert von Geth..'(?), on q5r several inscriptions of the names ‘Rob[ert]', ‘Joh[n]', and ‘Edw[ard]'. Possibly John Selden (1584-1654). Or possibly Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709); name on the front endleaf. If Selden's, presumably presented in 1659, for which see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 19; MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 58^r: ‘Ould Eng. Chron : fol.'; if Lhwyd's, date of acquisition unknown. Former Bodleian shelfmark: C 1. 12 Art. Seld.; L 1. 18 Th. Seld.; T 2.18 Art; BB 80 Art; Auct. QQ sup. 1.12. SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.8.