Abbreviamentum statutorum
Contributors: Pynson, Richard, -1530, printer; Stikeman, J., former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Fitzhugh, William McPherson, 1901- former owner; Ess, Henry N. (Henry Newton), 1921-2000, former owner; Spierinck, Nicholas, -1545, binder
Publisher: Imp[re]ssu[m] per Ricardu[m] Pynson
Published: 1499
Place of publication: London]
Language: roa; lat
Subjects: Statutes; Digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Vieux abridgment; Vetus abbreviamentum; Incipit tabula huius libri.
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Abbreviamentum statutorum)
Notes: Without title page. Head of [pi]2, recto: Incipit tabula huius libri.

Sometimes known as the Vieux abridgment or Vetus abbreviamentum. --cf. Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments, p. xix.

Imprint from colophon, which begins: Explicit abbreuiamentum statuto[rem].

Collation: [pi]⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [$1 signed]

Printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3) after colophon.

In black letter type.

Initials.

Abridgment of the statutes through the parliament of 1497/1498, 12 Henry VII; titles and references in alphabetical order.

This much enlarged 2nd edition of STC 9513 is the first in which the title 'abbreviamentum statutorum' appears. --cf. Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments, p. xx.

STC (2nd ed.) 9514

Beale, J.H. Engl. law, S40

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments 3

Duff 376

Goff A4

GW 4

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 4017

"The statutes of Henry VII, although originally written in English are here abridged in Anglo-Norman." --Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements, p.xx.