Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Title:
Policronicon.
Alternate Title(s):
Grete thankynges laude and honour we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes
Published / Created:
Emprynted at Westmestre [London, England] : By Wynkyn Theworde, ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:
[50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi 9696: 25 cm. Imperfect: leaves 2a1-8, 2b1, 2h6 (blank), k8, S1-2, and X1,3-8 wanting; some leaves mutilated and repaired, with some loss of text. Manuscript pencil annotations on front flyleaf with information about this copy. Bookseller's label: B. Westermann Co., New York.
Subject Terms:
World history -- Early works to 1800. | Geography -- Early works to 1800. | Music printing -- Specimens. | Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Description and travel. | Cunliffe, Henry -- Bookplate. | Takamiya, Toshiyuki -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts. | Chronicles. | Incunabula. | Booksellers' labels (Provenance) | Annotations (Provenance)
Contributors:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492. | Trevisa, John, -1402, translator. | Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534? printer. | B. Westermann & Co., bookseller.