Riche and pore have like cu[m]mynge into this worlde & lyke outgoying but their liuyng in this worlde is unlike : what shulde confort a pore man ayenst grutchyng and what wyckednesses folowe louers of richesses ...
Alternate Title(s):
Dives and pauper.
Published / Created:
[London] : Emprentyd by ... Richarde Pynson, at the temple barre of London, 5 July 1493.
Physical Description:
[488] p. ; 31 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts BV4655 D58 1493+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
British Art Center copy is the one described in the Grolier Club catalogue. It is as described there with 244 leaves, including blanks 1 and 13. An additional contemporary blank leaf has been inserted before the initial blank on which a 15th-century scholar has set up an alphabetical cross-index in Latin. At front & back, inserted as protective endpapers, are vellum leaves from an Italian (Bologna?) ms. of the 14th c., evidently a fragment of the Corpus juris civilis of Justinian I. Much marginal commentary in ms. throughout.Sometimes attributed to Henry Parker (cf. DNB & CBEL) but probably not by him (cf. STC & Richardson).A dialogue on the Ten commandments, with an introductory section entitled "Of holy pouertie."Colophon reads: "Here endith a compendious treetise dyalogue of Diues & paup ..."Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525 (1968), 43Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-117Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6109Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 9782Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 339Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 19212Richardson, H.G. "Dives and pauper." Library, v. 15, no. 1 (June 1934), p. 31-37Selected exhibitions: "Fifty-five Books Printed before 1525: Representing the Works of England's First Printers, an Exhibition from the Collection of Paul Mellon" (Grolier Club, 17 January-3 March 1968).
Subject Terms:
Barrett, Thomas, 1744–1803 -- Bookplate. | Higgs, William Simonds -- Bookplate. | Rabinowitz, Hannah D. -- Bookplate. | Ten commandments. | Dialogues, English. | Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800. | Incunabula in Yale Library.