CambridgeMagdaleneCollegePepysLibrary
: PL 2063
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SubjectHistory
Keywordsreligion; translation; collection
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id02128832
Holding InstitutionCambridgeMagdaleneCollegePepysLibrary
ShelfmarkPL 2063
Also bound with this copyHigden, Ranulphus: Polycronicon. Tr. John Trevisa.. - Westminster : Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 [ih00268000] (MEI ID: 02128835)
Physical DescriptionWants pages 30[3] and 30[6] (here supplied by B1-2 and B3-4 of the 1495 edition of Wynkyn de Worde, and recorded separately as PL 2063a); also blank leaves 1, 21, 25, 256, and 450 (last).
Size of leaves273 × 188 mm
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Copy Features - NoteIncludes rubricated initials, paragraph-marks and marginal headings.
Support material (book)Paper
Provenance
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesIncludes MS. annotations and marking of the text throughout, in different sixteenth-century hands, and especially at Lib. iv, cap. 33; Lib. v, cap. 6; and beneath the printer's colophon on the final page recto. Leaves 2r & 22r: “Constat liber iste Thome Andro recte Medice”.
Ms. notes (frequency)Several
Location in BookParts only
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1660 -
1700
Areae-uk-en
Time period1660 - 1700
Provenance TypeExlibris
Binding
Shelfmark
NoteIncludes bookplates (two instances). The bookplate located on the verso of the surround, created by Robert White in 1690, after the Sir Godfrey Kneller portrait. The bookplate includes Pepys's motto as subscript. Also includes an example of the 'rear bookplate' created by [?] Sutton Nicholls (fl. 1680-1729), with stylised fouled anchors and rope design, and Pepys's motto, this being situated on the blank final page verso.
Date of evidence1660-1700
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding noteSprinkled edges. Includes gilt armorial stamps for Samuel Pepys on upper and lower boards. See Style F in Pepys Library Catalogue (Volume VI: Bindings).
Binding date17th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusOriginal binding (repaired)
Binding Dimensions287 × 204 × 77 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesColoured
Historic ShelfmarkNo. 2063 (made in red ink on upper pastedown; Pepys’s final shelfmark).
1244(on upper endpaper in black ink, crossed through in red ink, an earlier Pepys shelfmark).
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1703 -
1723
Areae-uk-en
Time period1703 - 1723
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteCollege records state that the library came to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1724 in accordance with the codicil to Samuel Pepys's will; the wife of John Jackson gave the books to Magdalene upon John Jackson's death in 1723.
Date of evidence1703-1723
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceDocumentary source
Provenance
1724 -
PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1724 -
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Documentary Evidence
Date of evidence1724-
Method of acquisitionBequest
Manuscript notesIncludes MS notes passim (and especially on the upper endpaper) by former College Master, Daniel Waterland (1683-1740), concerning printed editions of the text and the date of John of Trevisa’s translation; at Lib. vii, cap. 44: “Explicit MS. Lat. Higden: Coll: John. Cant.”
Ms. notes (frequency)Several
Location in BookParts only
Personal NotesYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
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