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The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres: London, British Library, IB55004

Summary:

Imperfect. 'Three of the missing leaves were used before 1859 to supply imperfections in the British Museum copy, which was disposed as a duplicate in 1911 and which is now in the Scheide Library, Princeton' (BMC XI, p. 110).

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper

Size: 279 mm x 186 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)

Collation: 'Imperfect, wanting leaves [a]2, 8, [d]1, 8, [f]3, [k]3. Without the blanks.'

Condition: 'Leaf [b]1 is mutilated in the top outer corner. Three of the missing leaves were used before 1859 to supply imperfections in a British Museum copy (De Ricci 36:6), which was disposed of as a duplicate in 1911 and which is now in t Scheide Library, Princeton, Goff D-272. Each leaf is mounted, overall measurement being 279 x 186 mm.'

(BMC XI, p. 110)

Rubrication and decorated initials:

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Hand decoration:

Coming soon.

Additions:

'The text of leaves [a]2, [k]3, 4, and missing portion of leaf [b]1 has been supplied in pen-and-ink quasi-facsimile from the second edition (Duff 124) Leaves [b]2 and 3 have been transposed in mounting.'

Binding Description:

Bound in gold and blind-tooled brown russia.

Accompanying Material:

A bibliographical note by W. Blades (at the beginning).

A note on the dates of the discovery of the art printing by William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle (d. 1727) (at the end)

History:

Provenance:
• Reginald Hughes, 16th century.
• Edward Leight, 16th century.
• William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle, before 1727.

Acquisition: Bought from Henry Stenvens, 19 January 1856. (Cf. BMC XI, 110)

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Works referred:

BMC XI: Hellinga, Lotte, ed., Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Library, Part XI: England (t'Goy-Houten: Hes and De Graaf, 2007)
DeR(C), 36.07

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Images scanned and initial data added by Jamil Teja and Caroline Bardell on 13/1/14. Updated by Satoko Tokunaga on 14/08/14; Lauren MacDougall on 13/05/2015; TK in June 15.