The court of sapience (Caxton)

The court of sapience (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Title: De curia Sapientiae; The court of sapience
    Place: [Westminster]
    Printer/Publisher: [Caxton, William]
    Date: [1483]
    Edition / Issue: 1st edn
    Main Language: English
    Note: The attribution to John Lydgate is now 'generally abandoned'. (BMC XI, p. 138)
    Contents:
      Item 1: The court of sapience [2r-36v]

        Incipit: THe labero[us] & þᵉ most merueylo[us] werkes | Of sapience syn firste regned nature | My purpos is to tell as writen clerkes

        Explicit: ... Explicit Tractatus de Fide et Cantus famule | sue

        Note: In three books, Liber II from 15r; Liber III from 27r.

      Item 2: List of what every Christian man and woman has to learn [37r-38v]

        Incipit: These thynges folowyng is euery Cristen man and woman holde and bounde to lerne / and to conne to theyr power in waye of theyr saluacyon

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Object Description:

Form: Codex

Format: F°

Ideal collation: a-e8. 40 leaves, 1, 39, 40 blank.

Signatures: Signed to the fold with lower-case letter and roman numeral. The impression of the signature on leaf b4a failed.

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      Layout:
      • Columns: 2
      • Written Lines: 40
      • Locus: From e5-e6
      • Dimensions: 192 x 123; text area
      Layout:
      • Written Lines: 39
      • Locus: a2a-e4 and e7-e8.
      • Dimensions: 186 x 90; text area

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