Osborn a20

          Ranulph Higden, d. 1364, Polychronicon, translated into English by
     John Trevisa. England; sixteenth century.

     ff. 1r-3r    Prohemye

     ff. 3v-18r    Index for the whole work

     ff. 19r-25r    Book One, incomplete

     Paper. iii + 25 ff. 261 x 183 mm. 1 column.

          Bound to tightly too collate. The quires of Book One are marked
     a1, a2, a3.

          Cursive bookscript. The title is in a large gothic script. The
     spine was covered with a brown paper backing by R. N. Green-Armytage,
     January 26, 1934, and the volume is kept unbound in paper boards.

          Book label of R. N. Green-Armytage. Bequest of James M. Osborn,
     1976.

          Comments: This manuscript is evidently a copy of the 1495 edition
     of the Trevisa translation, made by Caxton and Wynkin de Worde. The
     index differs from the tabula of the printed text in that it is not
     divided into books.



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