Psalterium cum canticis (Caxton): Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Anonymous
- Title: Psalterium cum canticis
- Place: [Westminster]
- Printer/Publisher: [Caxton, William]
- Date: [before 20 November 1481]
- Edition / Issue: 1st edn
- Main Language: Latin
- Contents:
- Item
1: Hieronymi's Preface
[sig. 2a-sig. 6a]
Incipit: Iheronimus de laude dei super psalterium
- Item
2: Prayer (Preces, cum hymno 'Rex Christe clementissime')
[sig. 6b-sig. 7a]
Incipit: In manus tuas dulcissime deus et dulcissimam pietate tuam cömendo hodie et omni tempore corpus meu
- Item
3: Psalterium
[sig. 7b- sig. 147a]
Incipit: liber hympno vel soliloquio tempore
- Item
4: Song (Cantica)
[sig. 147b- sig. 160b]
- Item
5: Prayer (Litaniae, cum precibus)
[sig. 161a- sig. 167b]
- Item
6: Vesperae mortuorum
[sig. 168a- sig. 176b-]
Incipit: ... Tibi dne comedamus aiam famuli tu
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Format: 4°
Ideal collation: a-u8 x8 (+7 * incipiunt) y8. 177 leaves, 1, 177 blank.
Signatures: Signed to the fold with letter and arabic numeral. Leaf q2 is unsigned. The numeral 2 is printed upside down in signatures a2 and t2.
Layout description:
- Columns: 1
- Written Lines: 20
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 1
- Type: 3: 135G
- Description: 'Wrong-fount H of Type 2 is found on a4a, l. 11. Some Ts are supplied from Type 2 on x4b, x5a, and x5b. On x4b r is substituted for L which was used 13 times on X4a.' (BMC XI, 123)
Decoration Description:
Initials: Initial spaces, with guide-letter on a2a.
Woodcut Illustration: None.
Printer's Device: None.
Colour Printing: None.
List of Copies:
- The unique copy recorded in ISTC
Bibliography:
- BMC XI,
123
- Cx,
47
- DeR(C),
84
- Duff(R),
354
- ISTC,
16253
- (R)STC,
ip01042500
Administration Information:
- Lauren MacDougall, 28/04/2015, 17/05/2015.