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The prouffytable boke for ma[n]nes soule, and right comfortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called The chastysing of goddes chyldern

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Title: The prouffytable boke for ma[n]nes soule, and right comfortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called The chastysing of goddes chyldern

Other titles: The chastysing of goddes chyldern

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Additional creator(s): Worde, Wynkyn de (Printer); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Binder); Huth, Henry (1815-1878) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: [Wynkyn de Worde]

Publication city: [Westminster]

Date(s): [about 1492-93]

Language: English

Size and medium: 48 unnumbered leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/117254

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008675079705181

Description

Signatures: [*]² A-G⁶ H⁴.


Imprint from ISTC.


Printed in two columns with 36 lines to a full column.


Ornamental woodcut initials on [*1v] and A1r.


Woodcut initials throughout.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00430000.


Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 4920.

Features

The edges of the first two leaves have been mended.


Several lines in the final two leaves are supplied in fascimile where the paper has been mended.


Bindings


Nineteenth-century binding of full dark brown goatskin over pasteboard by Francis Bedford. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of fillets containing long vertical panels filled with snails, snakes, insects and animals (possibly wild boars) amid stylised foliage and alternating with a repeating interlace design. The spine has five raised bands each blind-tooled with a single fillet. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: The chastysing of goddes chyldern. Gold-tooled in the third panel are the name and date: W. Caxton circa 1480. The board edges are blind-tooled with a single fillet and the turn-ins with three fillets, one thick and two narrow. The book has gilt edges. Size: 261 x 190mm. Leaf size: 255 x 180mm.

Provenance

Pasted onto the recto of the front free endpaper is a proof sheet from J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), an excerpt of which reads: This volume has an interesting pedigree. It has passed through the famous libraries of John Ratcliffe, 1776; Lord Spencer, 1813 ; J.B. Inglis, 1836 ; W. Valentine, 1842 ; John Dunn Gardner, 1854 ; and The Huth Library, 1921.


Oval red and gold leather book label on the front pastedown: Ex Museo Huthii. From the library of Henry Huth (1815-1878), whose collection was sold between 1911 and 1920.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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