Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Part 9

.. 1525 Paris P. Lenoir B.M.

.. 1528,May 5 Paris Gandoul Voynich.

.. c. 1530 [Paris] B.M.

.. 1539 Paris Longis B.M.

.. 1556 Paris L'Anglier (Brunet II 1623), Gra.s.se says 1566 .. 1556 Paris Groulleau Bib. Nat.

.. 1556 Paris De Banville Bib.

Nat.

.. 1556 Paris M.Boursette B.M.

Bib Nat.

_Spanish Version by Fr. Vincent de Burgos_

HC 2523 Pr 8722 Pell 1887 1494,Sep.18 Toulouse Mayer 1556 Toledo De Avila B.M.

_English Version by John of Trevisa in_ 1397

HC 2520 Pr 9725 n.d. Westminster W. de Worde [c.1495]

1535 London Berthelet B.M.

1582 London East B.M.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The first edition of this selection was published at London in 1893.

The 1535 edition has 8 unpaged leaves (t.i.tle, table, prologue, and Book I.), 338 numbered leaves, and printer's mark of Lucretia. The following errors in pagination are noted: 181 for 189, 197 for 187, 201 for 200, 203 for 201, 211 for 209.

The chief point of interest in the Bibliography is the question raised by Wynkyn de Worde's positive statement in his edition in his epilogue:

And also of your charyte call to remembraunce The soule of William Caxton first prynter of this boke In latin tonge at Coleyn hymself to avaunce That every well disposyd man may theron loke And John Tate the yonger Joy mote he broke Which late hathe in Englond doo make this paper thynne That now in our Englyssh this boke is prynted Inne.

Mr. Gordon Duff is disposed to think that Caxton may have worked on the undated Cologne edition (H.C. *2498), which must in that case be put before 1476, finding a link between his Bruges type and the Cologne presses in a work printed at Louvain in 1475 which contains type of both descriptions.

Most of these editions are in the British Museum. The copy of the Berthelet edition there has an autograph of Shakespeare in it--one of the Ireland forgeries.