1517
Ref:GB 210 Brogyntyn MS II.36 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Extent:12, ccclii, [28], xxxvii ff. (modern foliation 1-12; original foliation i-ccclii; original foliation [i]-xxx, continued to end; ff. 1-3 and xxxv-xxxvii at end are modern flyleaves, f. 4 and f. xxxiv at end are original pastedowns) ; 165 x 100 mm. Rebound, [20 cent.], using original covers and boards and preserving pastedowns; bound by Nicholas Spierinck of Cambridge (d. 1545/6): blind stamped leather over oak boards, with Spierinck's roll of wyvern, gryphon, lion and his initials and mark, all separated by branches of foliage, and his diamond-shaped stamp enclosing a Venetian lily (roll 1 and stamp 5 in George J. Gray, Early Cambridge Stationers and Bookbinders (Oxford, 1904), pp. 47-48, plates XXVIIA-B; see also Howard M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (London, 1978), no. 7); remains of two leather straps on front cover and brass clasps on back cover
Language:Latin
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