Shelfmark
P.Rox.1916
Title
The Chaundler mss. : introduction on the life and writings of Thomas Chaundler : and an appendix containing descriptions of the Trinity College and New College mss., with extracts therefrom / edited by Montague Rhodes James ... ; with collotype reproductions. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : J.B. Nichols and Sons, Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., 1916.
Physical description
[14], 22, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : facsims. ; 38 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
The Trinity College ms. includes Chaundler's Liber apologeticus de omni statu humanæ naturæ, his Contention between the cities of Bath and Wells, and four letters from Chaundler to Bishop Beckington. The illustrations of the Liber apologeticus form "the raison d'être of the present publication." The New College ms. includes seven "collocutions" and two "allocutions" on William of Wykeham, by one of Chaundler's scholars. The four illustrations reproduced from it show Winchester College, New college, William of Wykeham surrounded by some of the benefactors and worthies of New College, and the cathedral and bishop's Palace of Wells.
Note
Facsimile.
Note
20th century dark brown leather quarter-binding, with paper covered boards.
Provenance
Eton College Library booklabel.
Subject
Subject
Trinity College Library.
Subject
New College (University of Oxford) Library.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens, reproductions, etc.
Genre/Form
Facsimiles.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 1847 - 1929 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
J. B. Nichols and Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B44635