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tbL-205
- Text-inc Id:
- tbL-205
- Bod-inc Id:
- L-205
- Headings:
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Lydgate, John
The Life of Our Lady [English].
Fragments.
- Imprint:
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[Westminster]: William Caxton, [1483]. Folio.
For the dating and a discussion of these fragments see BMC.
- Collation:
- Sheets a2.7 and a3.6 only.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: il00409000
Goff L‑410;
BMC XI;
Pr 9666;
de Ricci, Caxton, 72; Duff 266a; Needham, Pardoner, 87, no. Cx 62; Oates 4097; Painter, Caxton, 213; Sheppard 7405; STC 17024.
LCN: 14479117
- Copies:
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L-205(1)
Copy
Sheet a3.6 only. Both leaves are badly mutilated and are now mounted.
Formerly bound in a copy of Cicero, Cato maior, etc. [Westminster]: William Caxton, 12 Aug. 1481 [Pr 9640] (see below).
Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco, with maroon cloth.
Size: 287 × 198 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 180 mm.
Provenance: [ ] Rudge (fl. 1823); perhaps either Edward Rudge (1763-1846), or Thomas Rudge (1754-1825).
Francis Douce (1757-1834); note by Douce on the recto of one of the back endleaves: ‘Taken from the cover of a copy of Caxton's Cato & presented to me May 1823 by Mr Rudge'.
Bequeathed in 1834.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce Fragm. 8.
SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. d.3.
