tic00480000

Text-inc Id:

tic00480000

Bod-inc Id:

C-197

Headings:

Chronicles: England Chronicles of England [English].

Analysis of content:

1. 1a1r [Table of contents.]
2. [2a1r] Chronicles of England [English]. See C‑194.

Imprint:

[London: William de Machlinia, c.1486]. Folio.

Collation:

a¹⁰ a B–V x–z [et] aa–dd⁸ ee⁴. Leaf ²a₁ is erroneously signed a_ii.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00480000 GW 6673; HC 4999; Goff C‑480; BMC XI; Pr 9773; Duff 99; Matheson 260, no. 4; Oates 4186; Sheppard 7520-2; STC 9993. LCN: 14863716, 14863724, 14863790

Copies:

1. C-197(1) First copy Wanting¹ a1,² a1, Q1.8, ee_{3, 4}. Leaves a8, dd_{7, 8}, and ee_{1, 2} are slightly defective. Leaves in gatherings¹ a, o–ee overlaid with vegetal tissue and strengthened. A duplicate of e1 bearing the printed signature (absent in the other) supplied from a smaller copy. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with the old calf covers inlaid. Size: 270 × 200 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 185 mm. A few early marginal notes. Scribbles on e1v. In gatherings² a-k initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Provenance: On e1v: ‘ . . . smyt ped to robard(?) smyt . . . wylyams . . .' On p4r: ‘Johan . . .' Mr Blechydon (seventeenth century). Thomas Lee (fl. 1697?); on front endleaf ‘Thomas [Lee], Darnhall, [ne]ar Over, Cheshire. Found in my desk which I bought at late Mr. Blechydon's day of sale, Middlewich'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 156.
2. C-197(2) Second copy Wanting a_{1-4, 9, 10}, A1-3, D2, E_{6, 8}, I8, K8, S1, V2, Y8, Z8, [et]3, bb3 –ee4. Leaf E7 bound after I7. A duplicate of sheet V3 is bound in place of sheet V2. Many leaves overlaid with vegetal tissue and strengthened. Binding: Modern calf, with the eighteenth-century calf covers inlaid. Size: 265 × 200 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 251 × 187 mm. A few early marginal notes. Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1759.
3. C-197(3) Third copy Fragment. Bound between gatherings f and i of items 2 and 4 of the volume; see B‑483(1); also for details of the binding, manuscript notes, and provenance. Size of leaf: 254 × 171 mm. Leaves D2 –F2 only. SHELFMARK: S. Seld. d.17(3).