Polycronycon

Title

Polycronycon

Alternative Title

Full title: Polycronycon

Creator

Ranulf Higden, -1364

Publisher

[Imprented in Southwerke : by my Peter Treueris at ye expences of John Reynes boke seller at the sygne of saynt George in Poules chyrchyarde, the yere of our lorde god M. CCCCC. & . xxvii the xvi. daye of Maye]

Date

[1527]

Format

[50] (the last blank), CCCxlvi [i.e. CCCxlvii], [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 30 cm (fol.)

Description

Imprint from colophon.

Includes index.

By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.

Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.

Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin. English translation is by John de Trevisa, who continued the coverage to 1357. The 8th book was added by William Caxton, whose name appears on R6r, when in 1482 he printed Trevisa's translation with extensive revisions.

Reprint of Wynken de Worde's 1495 edition with the addition of several woodcuts and omission of the date of Wynken de Worde's edition at end.

Numerous errors in foliation; CCCxxxvi repeated in numbering.

Printed in double columns; without catchwords; black letter; initials; printed marginal notes.

Xylographic title page, printed in red and black and incorporating Reynes' monogram device (McKerrow 55), repeats, with extensive alterations, the woodcut on verso of last leaf; cf. Hodnett, no. 2489, and McKerrow 61.

6 woodcut illustrations in text (some repeated)--and 1 full-page cut; cf. Hodnett, no. 2490-2496; small cut of music (leaf Ci recto).

Woodcut border for colophon; McKerrow & Ferguson.

Title-page borders, 12.

Includes index.

Provenance

Signatures: "Raffe Donne" on 2h6v; "Amy Donne is my name" on O3r; and "Tho. Brooke" (with a 4-line poem) on 2a4r

Book label: AHA, i.e., Arthur A. Houghton

The gift of Seymour Schulich, Dec. 2015.

Contributor

Trevisa, John, -1402.
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491.
Treveris, Peter, active 1522-1532.
Reynes, John, active 1527-1544.
Houghton, Arthur Amory, 1906-1990, former owner.
Schulich, Seymour, former owner.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

Language

English

Identifier

Dated 1527 .H333 folio
ESTC S119426
STC (2nd ed.), 13440
Pforzheimer, 490

Files

Dated 1527 H333 folio.jpg

Collection

Citation

Ranulf Higden, -1364, “Polycronycon,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/176.