Tabula prime [-tercie] partis magni abbreuiame[n]ti libroru[m] legum anglorum
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 100
Publisher: Impensis et industria Ioha[n]nis Rastell
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Impress. Londini
Language: roa; lat; eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Indexes; Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Tabula prime partis magni abbreuiamenti librorum legum anglorum; Tabula libri magni abbreuiamenti libroru[m] legum anglorum; Year books (Edward I : 1272-1307); Year books (Edward II : 1307-1327); Year books (Edward III : 1327-1377); Year books (Richard II : 1377-1399); Year books (Henry IV : 1399-1413); Year books (Henry V : 1413-1422); Year books (Henry VI : 1422-1461); Year books (Henry VII : 1485-1509); Tabula secunde p[ar]tis magni abbreuiamenti libroru[m] legu[m] anglorum.; Tabula tercie partis magni abbreuiame[n]ti libroru[m] legum anglorum.
Work titles: Graunde abridgement
Notes: In three parts.

Part 1 has caption title; "secunde partis" and "tercie partis" have separate title pages, with woodcut (5.2 x 14.2) of a king and 2 soldiers --cf. Beale, J.H. Engl. law, plate no. 13.

Imprint from colophon, part 3, which begins: "Tabula libri magni abbreuiatamenti libroru[m] legum anglorum finit felicit ... ".

Collation: a-c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g-i⁸ k⁶ l-n⁸ o⁶ p⁴; ²a-p⁸ q¹⁰; A-L⁸ M⁶ [$4 signed; ²k1 not printed; misprinting G4 as F(?)4]

Printer's manuscript correction of G4 misprint.

Prologue in Latin, preface in English; both by John Rastell. Main work in Law French.

In black letter type.

Initials, some historiated.

With bearer impressions on ²k1.

Volume is an index to Anthony Fitzherbert's Graunde abridgement. "Rastell's preface to this work contains a fairly clear statement as to its authorship, which was divided between the printer and Fitzherbert ..." --Cf. Cowley, J. D. A bibliography of abridgments.

STC (2nd ed.) 10955

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R462, R462a (pts. 1 & 2)

Beale, J.H. Engl. law, R462b (pt. 3), from unpublished "Supplement 2" in the Harvard Law School Library

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements 7

Bound Dec. 1935.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 227)

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind with fillets and "heads in medallions" rolls with capstans (Oldham, Blind-stamped, HM. a (12); 781), probably London bound. Remains of brass clasps on upper boards. At foot of 1st leaf in a contemporary hand "Richard Hunte[?] huius". With leaves and most signatures numbered, and with marginal annotations in a contemporary hand. Impressions of paper tabs throughout.