Le Curial (Caxton): London, British Library, C.10.b.17 = IB.55100
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 263 mm x 181 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Foliation and/or Pagination: Foliation 78-81 by a 16th-century hand (recto pages of [*]1-6).
Collation:
- Perfect
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 0
- Summary:
Not rubricated.
Hand decoration:
None.
Additions:
- 'Chaucer' by a 16th-century hand ([*]1r).
- 'Chartier agst the Court' in a 17th-century hand ([*]1r).
- 'Perfect' by John Ratcliffe (front fly-leaf).
Binding Description:
'Bound fourth at an early date in a tract volume which also included several other Caxtons [...] [Cf. BMC XI, 136-37] and foliated 76-81 in the same characteristic early 16th-century hand as the ohter items.[...] The tract volume was owned by Thomas Rawlinson (d. 1725) by 1714 and while in his possession it was broken up and the imtes boudn seperately. See Needham (1986), Appendix B, no. 15, and Hellinga and Nickson (1997). [...]
Bound in gold-tooled red morocco with the arms of King George III'. (BMC XI, 135)
Accompanying Material:
None.
History:
- Provenance:
- Possibly Edward Berisford, 16th century (see BMC XI, 136 on Book of Fame, C. 10.b.13).
- Thomas Rawlinson (d. 1725), vwdiew 1714-25.
- Rawlinson's estate, 1725-27.
- Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, 1727-41 (bought at Rawlinson's sale, November 1727; see BL Add. MS 70466).
- Thomas Osborne, bookseller, 1742 (see Catalogus Bibl. HarleianaeIII, 1549).
- James West, by 1772.
- John Ratcliffe, 1773-76 (bought at West's sale, March 1773, lot 2284).
- G. Nicol for King George III, 1776 (bought at Ratcliffe's sale, March 1776, lot 1422).
- King George III (with his Library's press-mark 167.b.4).
Image Gallery:
Works referred:
Administration Information:
Images are supplied by Lotte Hellinga and scanned by CB and JT (2014).
Quoted from BMC XI with the editor's kind permission.
Ed. by ST and TK (2014/15)