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Berners, Juliana (b. circa 1388) The Boke of Saint Albans, Fragment.
[Enprynted at Westmestre: by Wynkyn the Worde, 1496.]
Small folio, nine leaves only of seventy-four, consisting of c6, d2, d3, d6, and e1-5; with leaves d1, d4, and d5 supplied from the 1810 Haslewood-funded facsimile printed by Harding & Wright in 1810 and inserted for textual continuity; bound in full 19th century speckled calf, decorated in gilt with gilt ownership stamp depicting an arm holding a trident and the initials G.T., a member of the Turbutt family of Ogston Hall, Debyshire (possibly Gladwyn Turbutt), with pencil note inside front board, "purchased from Co. Turbutt"; ex libris book collector and onetime assistant librarian of the Bodleian Library, Reverend Philip Bliss (1787-1857), with a neat inscription in his hand dated 1812 on ffep explaining that the original de Worde leaves were presented to him by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), and that the facsimile leaves were given him by the bookseller Robert Triphook (1782-1868); from the Ashburnham Library; housed in a custom cloth box with morocco spine; e3 recto rubbed with a small hole made in an attempt to expunge a reference to "holy fader the pope"; 9 3/4 x 7 in.
