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Title(s):
Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...
Additional Title(s):

Title from tabula on 2A1 recto: Here begynneth a shorte and a breue table

Title from prologue on a1 recto: In somoche [that] it is necessary to al creatures of Crysten relygon

Title from A1 recto: Descrypcyon of Englande

Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes

Chronicles of England.
Published/Created:
[London] : And newly imprynted i[n] Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde, in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520]
Physical Description:
[6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA130.C55 H43 1520
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and imprint from colophon on 2b7 recto.
Tabula, leaf 2A6 verso: "The descrypcyon of Englonde, Wales, Scotland, and Irlonde in the later ende of these present Cronycles."
Includes on A-C⁶ D⁴: The descrypcyon of Englande. Fynyshed & imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the so[n]ne by me Wynkyn de Worde, the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx.
The descrypcyon of Englande is an excerpt from: Higden, Ranulf. Description of England.
Imprint for The descrypcyon of Englande from colophon on D3 verso, which includes text: "Here endeth the descrypcyo[n] of Brytayne, the whiche conteyneth Englande, Wales and Scotlande, and also bycause Irlande is vnder the rule of Englande... whiche I haue taken out of Polycronycon... I William Caxton haue them set fyrst in imprynte accordynge to [the] translacyon of Treuisa..."
Printed in two columns.
Woodcut illustration featuring a coat of arms on 2A1 recto; illustration on A1 recto; printer's device on 2b7v (McKerrow 1b) and D3v (McKerrow 20). Other illustrations throughout (Hodnett, page 87).
Leaf xlvi misnumbered xlvii. Leaf Cxviii misnumbered Cxvii. Leaf Cxxvi misnumbered Cxxii.
Signatures: 2A⁶ a-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ 2a⁶ 2b⁸ A-C⁶ D⁴.
Leaves 2b8 and D4 are blank.
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 10001
English short title catalogue, S111214
Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525, 27
Matheson, L. Prose Brut, 214
Selected exhibitions: "Fifty-five Books Printed before 1525: Representing the Works of England's First Printers, an Exhibition from the Collection of Paul Mellon" (Grolier Club, 17 January-3 March 1968).
BAC DA130.C55 H43 1520: Bound in later brown morocco with gilt edges. Imperfect: Lacking leaves 2A1, 2b8, and D4. Leaf 2A1 is a pen facsimile composite by John Harris. Harris did not choose to copy the woodcut on the original title page of the 1520 Chronicles (see All Souls copy), which also appears in the 1528 edition. The woodcut that appears on this leaf is instead a similar cut associated with books printed by Richard Pynson; most particularly, with Pynson books printed after 1516 in which the cut shows the same breaks in the border reproduced by Harris. This cut is illustrated in Joseph H. Beale's A Bibliography of Early English Law Books (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1926, Appendix I, no. 8). Facsimile leaf includes caption "The Cronycles of Englonde with the dedes of popes and emperours and also the descripcyon of Englonde," lacking in 1520 edition but found in the 1528 (Pollard 10002); it also includes one more name in the second column of register and a spare line of space in the first column. Harris omitted the last name (which occurs first on the continuing page 2A2 recto of the 1520 edition) and closed up the space in the first column to keep the two columns aligned. Other than this, the spelling and alignment of type corresponds exactly to that of the 1528 edition. See Grolier Club. Bookplate: Henry Cunliffe. Autograph: W. Scott.
BEIN Osborn fpa48: quires A-C⁶ D⁴ ("The descrypcyon of Englande") bound preceding the remainer of the text; x6 bound preceding x3. Imperfect: quire 2A⁶ and leaves a1, a4, 2b8 (blank), C4-6, D1, and D4 (blank) wanting; some leaves mutilated or with holes and repaired, with some loss of text. Contemporary manuscript annotations in what appear to be multiple English hands, one of which is secretary hand. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Bound by Nicholas Spierinck using manuscript waste with music notation. Bookseller's descriptions (2 leaves) tipped in. Accompanied by: bookseller's description (3 leaves).
Subject Terms:
Cunliffe, Henry, 1826–1894 -- Bookplate.
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800.
Takamiya, Toshiyuki -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Chronicles.
Woodcuts.
Annotations (Provenance)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Contributors:
Container of (work): Higden, Ranulf, -1364. Description of England. Selections.
Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer, publisher.
Harris, John, 1791?-1873, facsimilist.
Trevisa, John, -1402, translator.
Spierinck, Nicholas, -1545 or 1546, binder.
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