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Title
Date(s)
- 1515 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
119 ff. (foliated in two sequences: i-lxiii and i-l; foliation of ff. lix and lxi of first part reversed) ; 190 x 130 mm. (edges slightly cropped).
Bound, [17 cent.], in limp vellum covers with holes for two ribbon ties; 'EXPOSITIO HYMNORUM in usum Salbur' and 'PYNSON 1515' in ink on spine.
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Name of creator
Archival history
Marginalia in Latin and English by various hands of the first half of the sixteenth century, including notes, textual glosses, translations and corrections; section relating to Thomas Becket (second part, f. vii recto-verso), heavily crossed out in ink, presumably by a Protestant reader; notes of ownership by Robert Savage, Robert Collear and Thomas Tomkys on frontispiece and at end of first part. An eighteenth-century hand has added 'Note the first Book Printed by Pynson was Dives & Pauper in the year 1493. Anno 1515 Imprinted by W [sic] Pynson at the sign St George Fleet Street Tempore Henrici Octavi 62 years after Printing was first us'd in England' in ink on front cover and 'Printed by W. [sic] Pynson Anno 1515 at the sign of St George Fleet Street London Temp. Henry 8: 62 years after Printing was first us'd in England. A book of Hymns for the Cathedral Salisbury' on the back cover.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
A copy of a printed book consisting of two parts, Expositio hymnorum secundum vsum Sarum, followed by Expositio sequentiarum (London, 1515, STC 16127), printed by Richard Pynson, whose full-page device appears at the end of the first part; see also colophons on f. lxiii verso of first part and f. l of second. Woodcut of a monk reading used twice before and once at end of first part, and once before second part.
Other copies are at Trinity College, Oxford, and Cambridge University Library (see William Carew Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 3rd series (London, 1887), p. 77, and C. E. Sayle, Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1900), p. 56, no. 263).
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Conditions of access and use area
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, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
One folio perhaps lost at end.
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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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Notes area
Note
Original title.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.34 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].