[Tenores novelli.]
Contributors: Le Talleur, Guillaume, -1492? printer; Pynson, Richard, -1530, bookseller; Phillipps, Robert Biddulph, former owner
Publisher: Guillaume Le Talleur for Richard Pynson
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Rouen
Language: roa
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Other titles: Tenores nouelli
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Title and imprint from colophon, G3 verso: Expliciunt Tenores nouelli impressi per me Wilhelm[e]n le Tailleur opulentissima ciuitate rothmagensi iuxta prioratum sanctilaudi ad instantiam Richardi Pynson.

Date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Le Tailleur's device on 1st leaf; some copies may have Pynson's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3) within a border of scroll pieces.

Text begins: [T]enant in fee simple est celuy qui ad terres ...

Collation: A⁸ B-F⁶ G⁴ [$6 signed; printing A2-A8 as A1-A7; G4 blank]

In black letter type.

Spaces left for initial capitals to be supplied in manuscript.

First published in 1482, Littleton's work was the earliest printed treatise on English law not printed in Latin. It incorporated some material from the Old tenures and "sums up the development of what was then the most important branch of the common law" --cf. Oxford companion to law.

STC (2nd ed.) 15721

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T5

BM 15th cent. VIII 390

Copinger 3617

Duff 275

Goff L234

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 3858

Text in Law French.