The Horse, the Sheep, and the Goose: Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Lydgate, John
- Title: The Horse, the Sheep, and the Goose
- Place: [Westminster]
- Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
- Date: [about 1476-77]
- Main Language: English
- Contents:
- Item
1: The horse, the sheep and the goose
[fols 2r-14v]
Incipit: Contreversies / plees and discordes Bitwene persones
Explicit: Thus endeth the horse the ghoos & the sheep.
- Item
2: Seven untitled stanzas
[fols 15r-16r]
Incipit: hit is ful hard to knowe ony estate
- Item
3: List of terms of association
[fols 16v-17v]
Incipit: an Herde of hertes | an Herde of dere
- Item
4: List of terms of carving and venery
[fol. 18r]
Incipit: An hare in his forme | is sholdring or lening
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Format: 4° in divided half-sheets.
Ideal collation: a8b10. 18 leaves, 1 probably blank.
Layout description:
- Columns: 2
- Written Lines: 23
- Locus: Prose
- Dimensions: 154 x 102; text area
- Written Lines: 21
- Locus: Verse
- Dimensions: 152 x 102; text area
- Layout:
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 1
- Type: 2: 135B
Decoration Description:
Initials: Initial space with guide-letter on [a]2a
Woodcut Illustration: No woodcuts used.
Printer's Device: No printer's device.
Colour Printing: None.
List of Copies:
- Copies as listed in ISTC
Bibliography:
- BMC XI,
105
- Cx,
18
- DeR(C),
69
- Duff(R),
261
- GW, M19604
- ISTC,
il00407100
- (R)STC,
17018
Administration Information:
- Lauren MacDougall, 17/02/2015, 16/05/2015; TK, June 2015