Signatures: a-f⁴., Title-woodcut (the "gentylwoman"); arms of Cardinal Wolsey on verso of t.p., and Translated by Mrs. Margaret Roper, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More. With a preface by Richard Hyrde.
Publisher:
in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cundite, at the signe of Lucrece
Printed in black letter; title within architectural border, woodcut initials., Signatures: A-F8 (F8 probably blank, wanting). Upper and lower margins closely trimmed, a few headlines, signature marks and catchwords bled., and The Huth copy; no. 6533 in the sales cat.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval