Caxton's Polychronicon: Liverpool, University Library, E.P.I.H635.2
Summary:
Imp. (ISTC ih00267000)
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: [unknown] mm x 250 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Imp. Lacking: sig. a-c (except 1 unidentified leaf from a table), sig. 1.1-7, 28.2, all after 49.1 (save 3 unidentified leaves).
Unidentified leaves and sig. 28.1, imperfect and patched, with loss of text.
Condition:
Margins are cut off.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 2
- Summary: The same style with that of Brighton Public Library for most of the pages. Some underlines for chapter headings and numbers
(some decorative). No paraph marks at all (both in the main text and for running and chapter headings) except for quires 9.3,
10, 14, and 17. Quires 10, 14, 17 contain a different style of rubrication (contains paraph marks in the main text and for
running heads and chapter headings too); Latin text is underlined. (Same with that of Scheide copy.) But marginalia are supplied
in brown ink in the same hand with that of CUL Inc.2.J.1.1.
- Hand: main
- Scope: major (all except quires 10, 14 and 17)
- Date: contemporary
etc
- Hand: 2
- Scope: minor (Quires 10, 14, 17)
Hand decoration:
None.
Binding Description:
Early nineteenth-century(?) diced brown russia; marbled endpapers; title on the spine: 'Proloconycon'. Front joint broken, back weak.
Accompanying Material:
None.
History:
- Provenance:
- -‘Mis Jane Malory' on verso of leaf following 28.8 is MS signature (in later hand).
- -Armorial bookplate of Luton Library [of John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, 1793-1848], with motto 'Avito viret honore'.
- Acquisition:
- -University Library Liverpool bookplate: 'The gift of Robert George Morton 1969' and Morton's pictorial bookplate:'Ex libris ... Beacon Tor. West Kirby. Cheshire. A.D. 1933'
Image Gallery:
- Not available.
Works referred:
Administration Information:
- Description by ST; Updated by TK.