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tid00274000
- Text-inc Id:
- tid00274000
- Bod-inc Id:
- D-109
- Headings:
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Dits des Philosophes
Dits des philosophes [English] The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres.
- Analysis of content:
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[*1v] Wydeville, Anthony: [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[W]here it is so that euery creature . . .’ Partly printed in Caxton, Prologues, 111-12.
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A1r Dits des philosophes [English]. The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres. Translated from the French of Guillaume de Tignonville, by Anthony Wydeville, Earl Rivers. Incipit: ‘[S]edechias was the first philosophir . . .’
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I3r Caxton, William: [Epilogue.] Caxton, Prologues, 18-31. Blades, Caxton, 141-8.
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[Westminster]: William Caxton, [1489-90]. Folio.
As dated by BMC; Sheppard dates [c.1490], GW [c.1489].
- Collation:
- [*2] A–G8 H I6.
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: id00274000
HC 6285;
Goff D‑274;
GW 8323;
Pr 9683;
Blades, Caxton, 226-8 no. 83; Blake, Caxton, 27, B30; de Ricci, Caxton, 39; Duff 125; Needham, Pardoner, 90, no. Cx 93; Oates 4109; Painter, Caxton, 214; Sheppard 7421; STC 6829.
LCN: 14818742
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D-109(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf I6. For this copy see Caxton, Exhibition, Bodley, no. 19.
Binding: Nineteenth-century olive morocco, possibly by Lewis.
Size: 287 × 200 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 190 mm.
Provenance: Robert Chaderton (sixteenth century); signature on A8r in a sixteenth-century hand.
John Holland (sixteenth century); signature on D1v.
William Vincent (1739-1815), Dean of Westminster; sale (15 Mar. 1816), lot 1176, sold for £99. 15. 0, as indicated on endleaf, where the figure has been altered to £199. 15. 0 by 'some feeble practical joker' (Macray 340).
Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858); provenance according to de Ricci, but not identified in sale catalogue.
Probably George Spencer-Churchill (1766-1840), 5th Duke of Marlborough; Catalogue of the Very Valuable and Extensive Library of Books . . . Removed from Blenheim (Oxford: Giles & Son, 28 May 1840), lot 437, in the Bodleian copy of the sale catalogue (Mus. Bibl. III 8o 465) is an annotated price of £50.
Purchased for £50; see Books Purchased (1840), 10.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 1.17.
SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.11.
