Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these Cronycles ...
Alternate Title(s):
Cronycles
Published / Created:
Enpryntid at Westmestre : By Wynken de Worde, and newely in the ye[a]r of Our Lord God 1497 ...
Physical Description:
[452] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsDA130 .C47 1497+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf collection no. 0327Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsDA130 .C47 1497+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
In two parts, the second being The description of England (leaves [2nd ]A1r-D6). The second part is mentioned at the end of the table to the first part.Title from incipit of table (leaf 2A1v).Imprint from colophon of first part (leaf I4r), which gives date of publication before place and publisher statement; part two is dated 1498.Colophon, part 1 (I4r): Here endyth this present cronycle of Englonde wyth the frute of tymes: compiled in a booke, & also enprynted by one somtyme scole mayster of saynt Albons. on whoos soule god haue mercy, And newely in the yer[e] of our lord god. M. CCCC.lxxxxvij. enprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn de Worde.Second part begins (²A1r): The descrypcyon of Englonde. Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the whiche treateth of the descrypcyon of this londe whiche of olde tyme was named Albyon And after Brytayne And now is called Englonde and speketh of the nobleness and worthynesse of the same.Colophon, part 2: Here endeth the descrypcyon of Brytayne, the whiche conteyneth Englonde Wales and Scotlonde ... whyche I haue taken out of Polycronycon. And by cause it is necessarye to all Englysshmen to knowe the propretees co[m]modytees and meruayles of them, therfor I william Caxton haue them sette fyrste in enprynte accordyng to the translac[i]on of Treuisa ... Fynysshed and enprynted at Westmestre by me Wynkyn de worde, the yere of our lorde a. M. CCCC. and foure score and .xviij.Signatures: 2A⁶, a-z⁶, [con]⁶, A-H⁶, I⁴; [2nd]A-D⁶.Woodcut initials.Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 102, 114Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-482Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 9996, 13440b.Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6675Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XI, p. 212Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, C-199Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00482000Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 4130, 4133Hodnett, E. English woodcuts 1480-1535, nos. 886, 891, 1312Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525 (1968), 22Selected 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 .C47 1497+ Copy 1: Imperfect: lacks leaves l1, l6, o3, o4, and u6. Leaves of 1 & 6 and 3 & 4 of signature e are transposed. Bound in 18th-century calf. "At front are the bookplates of the Earl of Jersey (Victor Albert George Child Villiers) and the Virtue and Cahill Library from which the book was ... sold (Christie's, 5 July 1967) by order of the Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Portsmouth. Its earlier appearance in the sale rooms was at the sale of the Earl of Jersey's Osterley Park Library at Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (6 May 1885). It appears in the 1771 Catalogue of the Osterley Park library under the title one the binding 'Fructus temporum'. The name of John Graveley occurs frequently in both the Cronycles and the Descrypcyon. On Aa2r is an ownership inscription by Graveley and, on the verso of the final leaf of the Descrypcyon is: 'ptinet John Graveley a⁰. 1540.' A later owner's name, 'Carolus Jones 1620,' occurs twice."--Grolier Club.BAC: DA130 .C47 1497+ Copy 2: Imperfect: The cronycle lacks leaves Aa1-Aa2 and l5-l6. The descrypcyon lacks signatures B and D, and leaf C6. The descrypcyon is bound before the cronycle (before the table). Bound in 18th-century calf. With the bookplate of Alexander Baron of Peckover. Autographs: George Turner; John Lockier. Bookplate: Baron Alexander Peckover.BAC Leaf Collection no. 0833: Imperfect: one leaf only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800. | Graveley, John -- Autograph. | Jones, Carolus -- Autograph. | Child, Francis, approximately 1735–1763 -- Provenance. | Child, Robert, 1739–1782 -- Provenance. | Jersey, Sarah Sophia Child-Villiers, Countess of, 1785–1867 -- Provenance. | Jersey, Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of, 1845–1915 -- Bookplate. | Catholic Church. Diocese of Portsmouth (England) -- Bookplate. | Turner, George -- Autograph. | Lockier, John -- Autograph. | Peckover, Alexander, 1830–1919 -- Bookplate. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Trevisa, John, -1402, translator. | Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492, editor. | Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer. | Higden, Ranulf, -1364. Polychronicon. English (Middle English). Selections.