tic00907000

Text-inc Id:

tic00907000

Bod-inc Id:

C-457

Headings:

Cordiale Quattuor Novissimorum Cordiale quattuor novissimorum [English] Of the four last things.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Of the four last things. [Preface.] Translated from the French by Anthony Wydeville, Earl Rivers. The Cordyal by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, ed. Johannes Antonius Mulders (Ph.D. thesis, Leiden, 1962), 1-2.
2. [a3r] [Table of contents.] The Cordyal, ed. Mulders (1962), pp. 3x–4y.
3. [a4r] Cordiale quattuor novissimorum [English]. Of the four last things. Translated from the French by Anthony Wydeville, Earl Rivers. The Cordyal, ed. Mulders, 5-150.
4. [k4v] [Colophon with note on the translator.] The Cordyal, ed. Mulders, 150-2; Caxton, Prologues, 38-40.

Imprint:

[Westminster]: William Caxton, 24 Mar. 1479. Folio.

Collation:

[a–i⁸ k⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00907000 GW 7536; HC 5714; Goff C‑907; BMC XI; Pr 9631; Blake 24 B23; de Ricci, Caxton, 33; Duff 109; Oates 4071; Painter 212; Sheppard 7372; STC 5758. LCN: 14421543

Copies:

1. C-457(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [k6] and leaf k1. On [h6v] the penultimate line is printed beneath the last line. For this copy see Caxton, Exhibition, Bodley, no. 12. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-tooled calf, in the style of several Selden books; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. Size: 280 × 200 × 21 mm. Size of leaf: 275 × 189 mm. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Provenance: In Hyde, Catalogus (1674), II 13, two copies of the English version are listed, one with the shelfmark Th. 4° N 14, the other undated and shelfmarked 4° N 3 Th. Seld.; it seems likely that the latter entry in the 1674 catalogue refers to this copy (possibly a Selden copy), and the former entry to C‑458; for Selden's copy see MS. Broxb. 84. 10 p. 32: ‘Liber de 4 Novissimis', listed as a theological quarto. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: B 19. 14 Th.; G 7. 9 Th.; Auct. QQ sup. 1.15. SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.10.