Caxton's Polychronicon: London, British Library, G. 6011-6012 (IB. 55060.)
Summary:
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 271 mm x 198 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Nearly perfect, wanting only the five blanks.
- Signatures: The text has been annotated in a few places in a 16th century hand but the annotations are now scarcely visible, even under
ultraviolet light, as a result of washing. A four line verse beginning:
'Anthony Perrens yf you lyst to hear
Loveth ale but had rather have bere'
is written in the bottom margin of 24.6b in a 16th-century hand.Condition: In fine condition.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 1
- Summary:
Marginal notes in 'Hand B'.
- Hand: Marginalia
- Scope: ()
Hand decoration:
Use of colour:Fully rubricated in red.
Binding Description:
Bound in two volumes (the first containing leaves 2-246, i.e. all up to and including quire [28*], the second containing the remainder), in 19th-century blind and gold-tooled olive straight-grain morocco, with the arms of Thomas Grenville in the centre; blind-and gold-tooled blue calf doublures...
Accompanying Material:
History:
- Provenance:
- Bought by the bookseller T. Payne for Thomas Grenville, at the sale by Evans of books from the White Knights library of George Spencer Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, 22 June 1819, lot 3607.
- Acquisition: Bequeathed to the British Musuem in 1846.
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Updated by Lauren MacDougall, 19/06/2015.