Policronicon
Higden, Ranulf,-1364.
Trevisa, John,-1402.
Caxton, William,approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Worde, Wynkyn de,-1534?,printer.
Duemvite, W.,former owner.StEdNL
Ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: M.CCCC.lxxxxv. Enprynted at Westmestre : By Wynkyn Theworde,
[1495 (13 April)]
The author, Ranulf Higden, is named on the colophon page.
An English translation by John Trevisa, who is named on R6r.
Edited and with a continuation by William Caxton, who is named on recto of R6. The continuation is reprinted from The chronicles of England, STC 9991.
The title is xylographic.
With a title page woodcut.
Opening of text, 2a2: gRete thankynges laude and honour we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes ..
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
Book 5 begins new register; foliation is continuous.
The woodcut music, the first musical notation printed in England, occurs on recto of leaf n5.
The last leaf bears a printer's mark.
Recto of leaf ai, last word is "englisshe". Variant: earlier (trial?) setting, last word "englysshe".
Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶; a-y⁸ z⁶; A-S⁸ T⁶ V-X⁸.
With marginal annotations. Leaf X6 is followed by ten leaves which are blank except for a few lines in an 18th-century hand on the recto of the first, in continuation of the narrative.
STC (2nd ed.)
Hain-Copinger
Duff
ESTC
GW
ISTC
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscription on recto of leaf 2h6: W. Duemvite, W. Acquired by the Advocates Library in the 18th century, not after 1776.
17th or 18th-century blind stamped leather with 19th-century reback.
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