[Tenores novelli.]
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. Bibliography of early English law books, T5

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII 390

Copinger 3617

Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 275

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L234

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 3858

Received Sept. 22, 1944, accession no. 810126; purchase from Sweet & Maxwell.

Text in Law French.

Ex libris Robert Biddulph Phillipps.

Bound in 19th century polished calf, covers decorated with gilt borders. Leather spine labels with the titles of the three works bound in this volume. Armorial bookplate of Robert Biddulph Phillipps Esqr., Longworth Herefordshire. With contemporary and 16th century marginal annotations throughout, edges of some lost due to close cropping. Copy imperfect; lacking 1st leaf. With this are bound the 1494 ed. of Natura brevium (STC 18385) and [before 1501?] edition of Novae narrationes (STC 18361)