The Chastysing of Goddes chyldern.
Add: William Flete: De remediis contra temptationes. [In the second English translation]: Remedy against the troubles of temptations.
[Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, ca. 1492-93]
Fol. π2 A-G6 H4. [48] leaves.
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ic00430000; GW 6583; Goff C430; BMC XI 182 (IB. 55150); Bod-inc C-171; DeR(C) 104.3.
| GIP number: | C32 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | Press variants compared with BMC copy: D5v, col.1, line 32: “Ioyfu”, not “Ioyful”; E5r, col.2, lines 35 and 36: “... af||ccyonfe ...”, not “... af||feccyon ...”; G1v, col.1, line 36: “deuocõn”, not “deuocon”. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Treatise of love. [Westminster]: Wynkyn de Worde, [ca. 1492-93] (T34). |
| Provenance: | Thomas Leventhorp (d. 1588), of Albury, Hertfordshire: inscription on π1r (title-page) “Tho. Leventhorp”. Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley; from 1724 2nd Earl of Oxford: see DeR(C) 104(3). Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), bookseller: purchased all the Harleian printed books; no. 1701* in his Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, vol. 5 (London: 1745). James West (1703-1772), politician and antiquary: lot 1871 in Bibliotheca Westiana (1773). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the West sale for £5.0.0 according to the annotated catalogue of the West sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu31-a.9). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ad.8.7”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with a border built up of a narrow tooth roll and of separate tools depicting a single flower in an urn within an architectural arch, the arch surmounted by a globe; gold-tooled spine with two green leather labels and a ‘Gothic window’ design in the remaining four compartments; dark blue paper pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; green silk bookmark; see Bv.2.13 (H22), Bv.2.16 (C26), Bv.2.21 (C79) for identical bindings (and for the same border see BMC XI, 122, IB. 55040, and Christie's, London, Wentworth sale, 8 July 1998, lot 2 'bound for James West'). Size: 274 x 202 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 266 x 188 mm. |
| Annotations: | Annotation in Thomas Leventhorp’s hand on π1r “There ys in this olde Book many a good sayinge and Lesson: as well as some sup[er]stycyouse and popysh”; marginal annotations in English (often extracting keywords) by Leventhorp throughout; occasional correction of text and underlining; manicule on C3v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
