Liverpool, University Library (GB)
: SPEC Inc.RGM.03
ISTC No.ih00267000
AuthorHigden, Ranulphus
TitlePolycronicon. Tr: John Trevisa. With the continuation 1357-1460 by William Caxton
Imprint[Westminster] : William Caxton, [between 2 July and 8 October 1482]
Formatf°
Languageeng
SubjectHistory
Keywordsreligion; translation; collection
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id02140827
Holding InstitutionLiverpool, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSPEC Inc.RGM.03
NoteCreated by Niamh Delaney
Size of leaves235 × 165 mm
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Copy Features - NoteIncomplete copy: lacking signatures a-b (except leaf b6), signature C, leaves 1.1-7, *2 (which is a blank leaf), and all after 49.4. Leaves b6, 28.1 and 49.2-4 imperfect and mounted, with some loss of text (particularly leaf 28.1, loss only minor for leaves 49.2-4).
Tipped in, cutting from a bookseller's catalogue, entry number 267, which identifies this copy as number 33 in De Ricci's census; a note in a 20th century hand regarding "the crude state of Arabic numerals in this printing" (possibly the hand of librarian John Sampson - there is a second note in this hand on a front endpaper, stating that this is no.33 in the De Ricci census); cutting from a newspaper article regarding the purchase of a copy of the Polychronicon purchased by Thomas Thorp in 1944.|
Support material (book)Paper
Provenance
1482 -
1490
Time period1482 - 1490
Provenance nameAnonymous [Person; Rubricator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeDecoration
Date of evidenceDates approximate
Rubrication noteInitials and some paragraph marks supplied in red.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1491 -
1700
Time period1491 - 1700
Provenance nameAnonymous [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeInscription
Manuscript Notes
NoteInscription on leaf *1, in a 17th century(?) hand - "Mis Jane Malory".
Date of evidenceDates approximate
Manuscript notesCopious marginal annotations (chiefly in English), in more than one 15th/16th/17th century hands. Most have been badly cropped where pages trimmed.
Extraction of keywordsYes
CommentsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
Personal NotesYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1820 -
1848
PlaceLuton Hoo, Bedfordshire
Areae-uk
Time period1820 - 1848
Provenance TypeExlibris
Binding
NoteArmorial bookplate of John Crichton Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, with motto "Avito viret honore".
Date of evidenceStart date approximate
Method of acquisitionunknown
Binding noteLate 18th/early 19th century diced leather (Russia leather) binding. Single filleted gilt tooled frame to covers, board edges, and turn-ins. Titling in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Bookblock edges in gilt.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureNo
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions246 × 175 × 63 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesGilt
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
certaintya
psourcea
provenance
1880-1973
placenameWirral (Geonames ID: 7733088)
areae-uk-en
provenanceType1
1
noteBookplate of Robert George Morton, of Beacon Tor, West Kirby, Cheshire.
provDate1969
methodofacqx
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1969 -
PlaceLiverpool (Geonames ID: 2644210)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1969 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteUniversity of Liverpool bookplate with: "The gift of Robert George Morton, 1969".
Date of evidence1969
Method of acquisitionDonation
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
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