Chaucer's The book of fame (Caxton): London, British Library, C.10.b.13 = IB.55097
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 263 mm x 183 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Without the blanks.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 0
- Summary:
Not rubricated.
Hand decoration:
Not decorated.
Additions:
- 1. an unidentified fragment described as "Chaycers workes";
- 2. XXX'.
- A title of the book in capital letters added by Randal Minshull, a librarian of Edward Harley (front fly-leaf).
- Osborne's price 10-6 in pencil (front fly-leaf, upper-right)
- 'Ames 38' by James West (front fly-leaf)
- John Ratcliffe, 1773-76 (purchaed at West's sale, March 1773, lot 2281)
'Bound second at an early date in a tract volume which included severl other Caxtons:
(BMC XI, 136; see also Hellinga and Nickson (1997); Needham (1986), Appendix B, no. 15)
Binding Description:
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'Bound in the private bindery of King George III, in gold-tooled straight-grain red morocco with his arms'. (BMC XI, 137)
Accompanying Material:
None.
History:
- Provenance:
- Possibly Edward Berisford, late 16th century (sig. b8r; Edward Berisford of Leadenham, Lincolnshire, admitted to Gay's Inn, 1587?).
- Thomas Rawlinson, before 1714-25 (with his collation mark and 'No. 950' on front fly-leaf, the latter might indicate that it mat ve udebtufued as kit 905 in his posthumous sale, 16 October 1727 (Cat. ix, 41)).
- Rawlinson's estate, 1725-27.
- Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, 1727-41 (bought at Rawlinson's sale; see BL Add. MS 70466).
- Thomas Osborne, bookseller, 1742 (see Catalogus Bibliothecae HarleianaeIII, 242, item 3542 (misprinted as 2542), with a reference to Ames's note no b4r).
- James West, by 1772.
- G. Nicol for King George III, 1776 (purchased at Ratcliffe's sale, March 1776, lot 1014)
- King George III (with his Library's press-mark 167.b.3)
Image Gallery:
note-1: For the same hand, see BL C. 10.b.17.
note-2: A title in capital by Randal Minshull; N. B. by ??; collation mark by Thomas Rawlinson.
Works referred:
Administration Information:
Images are supplied by Lotte Hellinga and scanned by CB (2014).
Quoted from BMC XI with kind permission by the editor.
Ed. by CB, ST and TK (2014-15).