Accession number
PML 733
Creator
Lyndwood, William, 1375?-1446.
Object title
Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Published
Westminster : Wynkyn de Worde, 31 May 1496.
Description
(8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
There are two issues of the first 32 leaves. This state has "Constitutiones" in title; B2r line 2 ends "faci-"; C2r line 2 ends "sunt)"; D2r line 1 has "etia[m]". A variant with quires A-D in a different setting (STC 17103.5) has "Constituciones" in title.
Woodcut on a1r coloured and gilt.
Checklist: "JPM 733."
ISTC note: PML (2).
Woodcut on a1r coloured and gilt.
Checklist: "JPM 733."
ISTC note: PML (2).
Binding
Old dark brown morocco, gilt tooled, lacks ties.
Inscriptions/Markings
"Ex libris M. Johnson J.C." inscribed at foot of title page. A number of marginal annotatlions, largely obliterated by trimming.
Provenance
From the libraries of M. Johnson, Cornelius Inglis and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
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