CambridgeMagdaleneCollegePepysLibrary
: PL 2051(1)
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alsoboundinthisitem[2] Treatise of love. - [Westminster] : Wynkyn de Worde, [c.1492-93] [il00290000] (MEI ID: 02128857)
[3] [Attributed to] St. Bonaventure: Incipit Speculum vite xp̄i [Meditationes vitae Christi] / [translated into English by Nicholas Love as 'The Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ'. . - [London] : Richard Pynson, [1506] [ESTC no. S125194 ; STC (2nd ed.) 3263; ]
paperSize274 × 189 mm
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supportMaterialBooka
provenance
1493 -
1600
timeperiod1493 - 1600
msNoteIncludes MS marginalia throughout (mostly cropped); at E3v: "Memor=andum that I George Bassendyne"; at G1v: drawings of a jester and second figures, with legends which read: "The prolege of these to wyse persones" and "I haue brought unto your mastershype an napple". At the end: "here endeth the one and thyrtey salmeys H D", written in the same hand of the chapter numbers which begin at Glr. Also includes, on lower endpaper, two pen trials for the name “Mary”.
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msLocationc
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provenance
1660 -
1703
placenameLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
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timeperiod1660 - 1703
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provDate1660-1700
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bindingNoteSprinkled edges. Includes gilt armorial stamps for Samuel Pepys on upper and lower boards. See Style F in Pepys Library Catalogue (Volume VI: Bindings). Endpapers used in the binding include the watermark of a coat of arms with [?] TP monogram, flanked by lions.
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bindingTypec
boardMaterialg
coverMaterialb
bindingStatuse
bindingdimensions282 × 195 × 33 mm
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Historic ShelfmarkNo. 2051 (made in red ink on upper pastedown; Pepys’s final shelfmark).
1239 (on upper endpaper, crossed through in red ink, an earlier Pepys shelfmark).
1101.B. (on upper endpaper, crossed through in black 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 TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteDocumentary evidence in College Archives to mark the arrival of Pepys’s library to the College.
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
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