Chaucer's Boethius (Caxton): London, British Library, G.10544 = IB.55020
Summary:
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 286 mm x 205 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- 'Without the blank. Leaves [g]1, [i]3, [l]6, 7 have been remargined, the edge of the text being sometimes shaved or overlaid.
Quire [i] is misbound, the binder having bound the three inner sheets in the order 6.3, 4.5, 2.7, while leaves 1 and 8 are
in their proper place'. (BMC XI, 112)
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 1
- Summary:
Rubricater partially, possibly damaged by washing; binder's signatures are supplied in red in quire [l] and
[m].
Hand decoration:
None.
Additions:
'The price "£52.10" written in pencil on the flyleaf is presumably that paid for the volume by Thomas Grenville. A descriptive note in his hand attached to the fly-leaf states that "few copies can be found in so perfect a state as this"'. (BMC XI, 112)
Binding Description:
'Bound by C. Hering in dark red straight-grain morocco, blind- and gold-tooled, with doublures and with the arms of T. Grenville'. (BMC XI, 112)
Accompanying Material:
A descriptive memo on this book is attached to a flyleaf.
History:
- Provenance:
Image Gallery:
Works referred:
- BMC XI,
111
Administration Information:
- Images scanned and initial data added by Caroline Bardell and Jamil Teja on 22/1/14;
updated by Satoko Tokunaga on 14/08/14; by TK (June 2015).