Binding: comtemporary half pigskin over wooden boards, remains of a single fore-edge clasp; pastedowns from a 13th-century vellum Homiliary., Bought Nov. 11 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: De disciplina scholarium. Colonia : Impressus in domo Henrici Que[n]tell ..., 1498 mensis die quinta -- Catonis disticha. [Cologne] : Impresse ... M.cccc.xcvi p[er] Henricum Quentell in Colonia, [1496]., Printer and date from colophon., Provenance: "F. Georgius Schmaller de Ratispona Ordinis predicatoru[m] 1549" (ms. on p. [1]); "Co[n]ue[n]tus Fra[n]ckford. Ord. p[re]dicator[um]" (ms. on p. [13]); "Ex libris Estelle Doheny" (bookplate on front pastedown)., Rubricated in red: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes; copious interlinear and marginal notes in an unidentified hand., and Text surrounded by commentary by Thomas Wallensis.
Publisher:
Per Henricum Quentell ...,
Subject (Name):
Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Bookplate., Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main Inscription, 1549., and Schaller, Georgius--Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Happiness., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Philosophy and religion.
Binding: Rebound in gold- and blind-tooled leather. In brown morocco case, by Riviere & Son., Imperfect: water-stained at beginning., Provenance: Inscription after contents in early sixteenth century/late fifteenth century hand: "Rychard Nayler ys my name and wyth my pene I wryt the same"; the same hand writes other names throughout in the top margin of rectos. Inscription on first leaf: "L Tyrwhitt." Inscription on first flyleaf: "W[illia]m Pownall Lincoln Feb 17th 1726/7.", Signatures: a¹⁰ ²a⁸ B-V⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2d⁸ 2e⁴., and Title and imprint from ISTC.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492., Machlinia, William de, active 1481-1486, printer., and Riviere & Son, binder
Bound with: 3 binding fragments cataloged separately. To view other titles search by call number: Zi 6309, Capital spaces, with guide-letters., Fol. 90b blank., For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Bookplate of Thomas Ewart Marston. Stained; fol. 90 torn and mended, with some damage to text. Bound in old wooden boards, leather back, with brass clasps; clasps wanting. Leaves and strips from vellum manuscripts have been used for end-papers., and Variations from Hain-Cop. have not been noted as Hain had not seen the volume.
Bequest of George P. and Mary P. Milmine, Dec. 1986., Binding: contemporay Dülmen binding of the blind-stamped leather over wooden boards; original upper clasps (clasp-hooks wanting)., Bound in Beinecke copy are four leaves from a twelfth-century ms. on parchment (probably a breviary) with musical notation in neumes., Differs from description of BM 15th cent., II, p. 423 in that quire g has 10 ff. (not 8), and quire G has 8 ff. (not 10)., Provenance: "Liber p[ri]m[u]s decretalis D[omini] H[er]bordi Wernyngh de Borchorst pastoris in Vreden atq[ue] Rectoris p[ri]mi altar[is] eccl[es]is ... [unidentified proper name"]. "In a different hand: Quem idem donauit post morte[m] domui Castrimarie p[ro]pe Dulmania[m] Ord[inis] Carthusien[sis] cum multis aliis quare merito ... fideliter pro eodem etc." (ms. on 1 a); "W.S. Thorpe 1871" (ms. on 1a); "R.B. Anderson, Madison, Wis." (stamp on 1a); "I have had the pleasure of being the happy possessor ... and am glad to know that it passes from me into Mr. John E. Burton's appreciative hands ... May 8, 1882. R.B. Anderson" (ms. on 1a); owned by George P. Milmine., and Rubricated throughout; capital spaces with guide-letters, capitals supplied in red or blue; book numbers in red in upper center margin of each page; headings in ms. in upper right corner of each recto.
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Rasmus Björn,--1846-1936--Stamp and presentation inscription to J.E. Burton., Burton, John E.--Presentation inscription from R.B. Anderson., Catholic Church. Breviary (Ms. 12th cent.) 797 % sp3, Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241., Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, Germany) Inscription., Milmine, George--Ownership., and Wernyngh de Borchorst, Herbordus--Inscription.