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Rubrication and decorated initials

Hand decoration

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Caxton's Polychronicon: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 206

Summary:

Imp. (Bod-inc: H-121) , (ISTC ih00267000) , (DeR(C) p. 63, n. 30)

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper

Size: 261 mm x 195 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)

Collation:

Imp. 248 ff. (all before 15, 2; 15, 8; 18, 1; 18, 8; 21, 1; 28 bis, 2; 29, 1-8; 26 ff. between 33, 6 and 37, 1; 30 ff. between 41, 8 and 45, 7; 47, 7; all after 48, 7). After f. 154 was inserted f. 11 of 'Discripcion'. This was later inserted into Douce 146.)

Rubrication and decorated initials:

Number of hands: 3

Summary: Chapter numbers, peoples' names, ages and years added in red in a contemporary English hand; probably added in the workshop; nearly identical notes in another hand in the other copy. On 14, 3v and 14, 4r bibliographical remarks ina sixteenth century(?) English hand. On 18, 5 v a list of names in a contemporary English hand" 'Thomas Thomas Edward Rychard Robdyn(?) R(?)ld'. A few marginal notes, extracting keywords, and pointing hands in different seventeenth century English hands. On the front endleaf, a note on the collation by W. H. A., dated 17 Dec. 1884.

Hand: Initials
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Hand: Marginalia
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Hand: Paraphs
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Hand decoration:

Use of colour:Initials, paragraph marks and running chapter numbers are supplied in red.

Binding Description:

Nineteenth century(?) half russia, with sprinkled edged leaves.

Accompanying Material:

History:

Provenance:
• Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland;
• Winnington, Margaret (16th c.).
• Francis Douce;
(Inscription on f. 41, 1v: 'Ellenor clyfford' and 'Margaret Wynnyngetone'.)

Acquisition: Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in 1834 by Francis Douce.

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Updated by Lauren MacDougall, 19/06/2015.