KL Prima dies mensis. [et] septima truncat vt ensis Ianuarius h[ab]et dies xxxj luna vero xxx ...
Publisher: William Caxton
Published: 1484
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Liturgy; Texts; Ordinals (Liturgical books); Catholic Church
Other titles: Fragments of printed books; Directorium sacerdotum.; Defensorium directorii sacerdotum.; Credi michi.
Work titles: Directory (Salisbury)
Notes: The Houghton Library copy is imperfect; title from incipit (leaf pi1r), as transcribed in GW.

Edited by Clement Maydeston.

Place of publication and printer from colophon.

Publication date fom ISTC. Dated to ca. 1487 by STC, GW, and Duff.

Colophon (leaf r10r): Impressum e[st] hoc directoriu[m] cu[m] defensorio eiusd[em] p[er] william Caxton apud westmonasteriu[m] prope London.

Signatures: pi⁶ a-q⁸ r¹⁰ s-t⁸.

STC (2nd ed.) 17720

Purchase; Sotheby's; October 1963; 63-1466; S.A.E. Morse fd.; bought with 63-1462-1479.

From the library of the Viscounts Clifden at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall.  For a history of the library at Lanhydrock and the compilation of this album, see: Mark Purcell, "The Library at Lanhydrock," The Book Collector, v. 54, no. 2 (2005), p. 195-227.

Imperfect: leaf k6 only, in 2 fragments consisting of lines 1-15 + headline, and lines 24-33.

Some 16th-century MS annotations in English and Latin.

With ms. note: "From binding of Chrysostomi Javelli Logicae compendium 1573"; i.e. removed from the binding on a copy of Chrysostomus Javellus, Logicae compendium (possibly the ed. published Paris: Jacques Du Puys, 1573?).

Tipped onto fol. 13 of an album of fragments removed from bindings (presumably Oxford bindings of the late 16th-early 17th centuries) of books in the library formed by Hannibal Gamon.

Bound in late 19th-century half tan sheep and brown cloth.
Table of contents: title: Kalendarium; title: Directorium sacerdotum; title: Defensorium directorii sacerdotum; title: Tractatus Crede michi.