The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres, 1st (Caxton)

The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres, 1st (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: de Tignonville, Guillaume
    Title: The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres
    Other Authors: Translated from the French by Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers
    Place: Westminster
    Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
    Date: 1477
    Edition / Issue: 1st
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Translator's prologue [sig. [a]2r-3r]

        Incipit: [W]Here it is so that euery humayn Creature by the | suffranˉce of our lord god in bornˉ & ordeigned to

        Note: sig. [a]3v blank.

      Item 2: The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres [sig. [a]4r-[k]1v]

        Incipit: [s]Edechias was the first Philosophir by whoom | through the wil and pleaser of oure lorde god

        Explicit: And suffise you with | the trāslacion of the sayingis of these philosopheres.

      Item 3: Caxton's colophon and epilogue supplementing Lord River's text [[k]2r-4v]

        Incipit: [H]Ere endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis | of the philosophhres enprynted / by me william | Caxton at westmestre the yeare of our lord .M. | CCCC.Lxxvij. Whiche book is late translated out of |Frenshe into englyssh by the Noble and puissant lord | Lord antone EArl Ryuyers lord of Scales & of the | Ile of wyght ...

        Explicit: And after thys lyf to lyue ever// | lastyngly in heuen Amen | Et sic est finis

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper stocks 39, 45-50

Format: F°

Ideal collation: [a-i8 k6.] 78 leaves, 1, 77, 78 blank.

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      Layout:
      • Written Lines: 29

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List of Copies:

    • Copies as listed in ISTC (copies with descriptions are colour highlighted)
      • UK, London, British Library. IB.55004
      • UK, London, British Library IB.55005, imperfect, wanting leaves [a]2, 8, [d]1, 8, [f]3, [k]3
      • Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Trinity College Library, VI.18.2
      • UK, Manchester, The University of Manchester,The John Rylands Library, (2: 3478, 15542 (with colophon))
      • Netherlands, The Hague RL (Kerncollectie van Amsterdam BPH) (DeR 36.4)
      • USA, New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library
      • USA, New Haven CT, Yale University, Center for British Art (DeR 36.2)
      • USA, New York NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, (2, DeR 36.3 and 36.9)
      • USA, Princeton NJ, Scheide Library, Princeton University (DeR 36.6)
      • USA, San Marino CA, The Huntington Library (DeR 36.13)

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