Le Curial (Caxton): Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Chartier, Alain
- Title: Le Curial
- Other Authors: Translated by William Caxton
- Place: [Westminster]
- Printer/Publisher: [Caxton, William]
- Date: [1483]
- Edition / Issue: 1st edn
- Main Language: English
- Contents:
- Item
1: Caxton's Prologue
[[*]1r]
Incipit: Here foloweth the copye of a lettre whyche maistre Alayn | Charetier wrote to hys brother
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2: Curial
[[*]1r-6r]
Incipit: [r]Yght welbelouyd brother & persone Eloquent / thou ad // | monestest and exhortest me to prepare & make redy place | and entree for the vnto the lyf Curiall /
- Item
3: Caxton's Colophon
[[*]6r]
Incipit: Thus endeth the Curial made by maystre Alain Chaffetier | Translated thus in Englyssh by Wylliam Caxton
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4: Ballad
[[*]6v]
Incipit: Ther ne is dangyer / but of a vylayn | Ne pride / but of a poure man enryched...
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Format: F°
Ideal collation: [*]6. 6 leaves.
Signatures: Leaves 1-3 signed with roman numerals only.
Layout description:
- Written Lines: 38
- Locus: All
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 1
- Type: 4:95(100)B*
Decoration Description:
Initials: Initial space on sig. 1a, with guide-letter.
Woodcut Illustration: None.
Printer's Device: None.
Colour Printing: None.
List of Copies:
- Copies
Bibliography:
- BMC XI,
135
- Cx,
58
- DeR(C),
20
- Duff(R),
84
- ISTC,
ic00429000
- (R)STC,
5057
Administration Information:
- Initial data entry by Caroline Bardell and Jamil Teja (Feb 2014). Updated by Lauren
MacDougall, 03/04/2015, 28/05/2015. Ed. by TK (June 2015)