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Location
City of Westminster, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Printer/Publisher
Caxton, William
Creation Date
1482
Description
Recto of leaf CCXXX [230] from the first English edition of The Polycronicon by Ranulf Higden (d.1364).
Translated from Latin to English by John Trevisa.
Edited and printed with continuation by William Caxton. (All three individuals are named on p. a3v of the original book.)
40 lines to a page; no signatures; headline and paragraph flourishes in red. Contemporary annotation notes in red and black ink on outer margins. Some annotations trimmed off at outer edge.
Includes the end of Chapter 3 and the beginning of Chapter 4 of Book 5.
Text in Middle English.
Rose-Wright Manuscript Collection no. 23.
Original Format
1 leaf; paper
Original Size
27 x 20 cm
Link to Primo Catalog Entry
https://search.library.pdx.edu/permalink/f/1ogp1a1/CP71152575400001451
Link to Medieval Portland Entry
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34705
Recommended Citation
Higden, Ranulf, "07, Printed leaf from the first edition of the Policronycon in English" (1482). Manuscripts and Incunabula in PSU Special Collections. 1.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34705
Keywords
Incunabula, Specimens, History, Geography, Great Britain