The Pilgrimage of the Soul (Caxton)

The Pilgrimage of the Soul (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Guillaume de Digulleville
    Title: Le pèlerinage de l'âme; The pylgremage of the sowle
    Other Authors: Translated and emended by John Lydgate
    Place: Westminster
    Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
    Date: 6 June 1483
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Table of contents listing chapters [2r-4r; [*]2-4r]

        Incipit: This book is intytled the pylgremage of the sowle / translated oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe

        Note: 4v, 5; [*]4v, a1 are blank.

      Item 2: The Pilgrimage of the Soul in five books [6r-112v/10; a2r-o4v]

        Incipit: Here begynneth the book of the pylgremage of the sowle

      Item 3: Translator's and Printer's Colophons [112v/11-17; o4vb-]

        Colophon: (o4r/11-) Here endeth the dreme of pygremage of the soule translatid | oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe with somwhat of addicions / the | yere of oure lord / M.CCCC/& thyrten / and endeth in the Virgy// | le of seynt Bartholomew | Emprynted at westmestre by William Caxton / And fynysshed | the sixth day of Iuyn / the yere of our lord / M. CCCC / lxxxiij | And the first yere of the regne of kynge Edward the fyfthe /

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Format: F°

Ideal collation: [*4] a-n8o6. 114 leaves, 1, 5, 113, 114 blank.

Signatures: Signed to the fold with lower-case letter and roman numeral.

Foliation and/or Pagination: Foliation. 2-4 numbered Folio ij-iiij, 6-112 numbered Folio ij-Cx, with errors and omissions.

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      Layout:
      • Written Lines: 40
      • Locus: All
      • Dimensions: 190(200) x 121; text area
      • Overview: With head-lines. On pages where prose and verse occur together the width of the page is occasionally fitted to the verse.

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