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INDULGENCES -- Indulgence in Latin, issued by Frater Johannes Dryver, prior of the Monastery of the Brothers of the Holy Cross, Colchester, Essex. [London:] Richard Pynson, 1523.
Oblong 4° (163 x 225mm. max). Gothic type in three founts, 32 lines, woodcut initial 'F', 5 woodcuts (Saint Barbara(?) supporting a cross and holding a model of a church, similar to Hodnett 1329; Crucifixion; papal arms; two Maltese crosses within shields). (Right and lower margins shaved, tear to lower margin affecting woodcut of Crucifixion and last line of text, a little worming.) STC 14077c.39. -- Another setting of the same indulgence (156 x 225mm). Variant woodcut initial 'F', variant woodcuts of Saint Barbara and Crucifixion (probably Hodnett 1417, known from another Pynson indulgence). (Shaved, some worming.) STC 14077c.40 (this copy, only example recorded). In modern cloth slipcase.
Provenance: Both of these indulgences were endleaves taken from a copy of Linacre's De Emendata Structura Latini sermones libri sex, printed by Pynson in 1524. The verso of the second indulgence (originally the front pastedown) is inscribed by John Wekes "Sum liber Wekei(?)" and dated 1556. The book may then have passed to the family of the organist Thomas Weelkes (cf. Book Collector vol. XXXIII, no. 2, 1984, pp. 189-205). Additional annotations are probably in the hand of John King (1559?-1621), Bishop of London (cf. letter to Lord Kenyon from Dr. Mary Hobbs, librarian of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, 17th February 1985). The Linacre was owned by the Dean and Chapter until it was sold by Sotheby's, 24 November 1947, lot 35. It was bought by Raphael King, who sold it on to Lord Kenyon. The lot is sold with Lord Kenyon's detailed correspondence researching the provenance and typographical history of the indulgences. (2)
Oblong 4° (163 x 225mm. max). Gothic type in three founts, 32 lines, woodcut initial 'F', 5 woodcuts (Saint Barbara(?) supporting a cross and holding a model of a church, similar to Hodnett 1329; Crucifixion; papal arms; two Maltese crosses within shields). (Right and lower margins shaved, tear to lower margin affecting woodcut of Crucifixion and last line of text, a little worming.) STC 14077c.39. -- Another setting of the same indulgence (156 x 225mm). Variant woodcut initial 'F', variant woodcuts of Saint Barbara and Crucifixion (probably Hodnett 1417, known from another Pynson indulgence). (Shaved, some worming.) STC 14077c.40 (this copy, only example recorded). In modern cloth slipcase.
Provenance: Both of these indulgences were endleaves taken from a copy of Linacre's De Emendata Structura Latini sermones libri sex, printed by Pynson in 1524. The verso of the second indulgence (originally the front pastedown) is inscribed by John Wekes "Sum liber Wekei(?)" and dated 1556. The book may then have passed to the family of the organist Thomas Weelkes (cf. Book Collector vol. XXXIII, no. 2, 1984, pp. 189-205). Additional annotations are probably in the hand of John King (1559?-1621), Bishop of London (cf. letter to Lord Kenyon from Dr. Mary Hobbs, librarian of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, 17th February 1985). The Linacre was owned by the Dean and Chapter until it was sold by Sotheby's, 24 November 1947, lot 35. It was bought by Raphael King, who sold it on to Lord Kenyon. The lot is sold with Lord Kenyon's detailed correspondence researching the provenance and typographical history of the indulgences. (2)