[c. 1540], 1917-1931
Ref:GB 210 Brogyntyn MS II.10 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Extent:MS II.10: i, 78 ff. (paginated 1-155; the final leaf (pp. 155-[156]) is a former pastedown; f. i is a later flyleaf; pp. 73-74, 90-154 blank) ; 145 x 95 mm. MS II.10a: 6 ff. Original binding by 'King Henry's binder' (illustrated in James P. Carley, The Books of Henry VIII and his Wives (London, 2004), p. 61; cf. Royal English Bindings in the British Museum (London, 1957), plate 1; Studi di Bibliografia e di Storia in onore di Tammaro de Marinis, 3 (1964), pp. 289-290 and plate 81/I), leather over pasteboards, with arms of Henry VIII with 'H' and 'R' above and below stamped in gold on front and back covers, worm damage to both covers; 'III DIALOGUES', 'M.S. 24' 'PORKINGTON LIBRARY' in gold on dark red leather lettering-pieces added, [18 cent.], together with strengtheners to spine. Pastedown inside back cover (now pp. 155-156) is a fragment of a pocket breviary, England, [15 cent.], containing part of the office for the first Sunday after Trinity and feria ii (written space 110 x 55 mm); exposed pasteboard is made up of paper leaves from a treatise on canon law in Latin, England, [15 cent.]
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