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Date(s)
- 1517 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
12, ccclii, [28], xxxvii ff. (modern foliation 1-12; original foliation i-ccclii; original foliation [i]-xxx, continued to end; ff. 1-3 and xxxv-xxxvii at end are modern flyleaves, f. 4 and f. xxxiv at end are original pastedowns) ; 165 x 100 mm.
Rebound, [20 cent.], using original covers and boards and preserving pastedowns; bound by Nicholas Spierinck of Cambridge (d. 1545/6): blind stamped leather over oak boards, with Spierinck's roll of wyvern, gryphon, lion and his initials and mark, all separated by branches of foliage, and his diamond-shaped stamp enclosing a Venetian lily (roll 1 and stamp 5 in George J. Gray, Early Cambridge Stationers and Bookbinders (Oxford, 1904), pp. 47-48, plates XXVIIA-B; see also Howard M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (London, 1978), no. 7); remains of two leather straps on front cover and brass clasps on back cover.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Signatures of 'George Morrye' (perhaps the father of Edmund Morrye (d. 1605), see Alumni Cantabrigienses), [16 cent.] (f. 5); 'Richard', [16 cent.] (f. xxxii at end).
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Scope and content
A printed copy of Marcus Vigerius, Decachordum Christianum ... Controuersiaque [d]e instrumentis dominice Passionis (Paris, 1517), printed by Josse Badius Ascensius in two parts, with the printer's woodcut device on title page of both sections, decorated initials throughout and illustrative woodcuts on ff. ii verso, xxxviii, lxxi verso, lxxxii verso, cvi, cxxvii, cxxxvii verso, cccv, cccxiii verso and cccxxiv of first part (for full description see Ph. Renouard, Bibliographie des Impressions et des Oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius (Paris, 1908), iii, 352-353, and Brigitte Moreau, Inventaire des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, tome ii, 1511-20 (Paris, 1977), p. 455, no. 1725).
Numerous marginal notes in Latin, mostly textual glosses, have been added by an unidentified hand of the sixteenth century. The preserved pastedowns (f. 4, f. xxxiv at end) are parchment leaves from a treatise on canon law in Latin, [14 cent., first ½] (two columns, written space 125 x 95 mm.).
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Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Title-page (f. 5) damaged, and repaired, [20 cent.], with some loss of text.
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Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Note
Original title.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.36 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Name access points
- Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Early works to 1800. (Subject)
- Badius, Josse, 1462-1535, printer. (Subject)