TY  - BOOK
T1  - Chronicles of England.
A1  - Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
A2  - Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Wynkyn de Worde
YR  - 1502
UL  - https://web.marshlibrary.ie/catalogue/Record/1338
OP  - 2
NO  - Two columns. 
NO  - Woodblock initials and illustrations including of the Tower of Babylon, Rome and London. 
NO  - Multiple notes in ink on front fly-leaf. 
NO  - Colophon cc7r: 'Here endeth this present Cronycle of Englonde with [tha]t fruyte of tymes. compyled in a booke/ and also enprynted by one some tyme scole mayster of saynt Albons/ uppon whoos soule god haue mercy. Amen. And newely in the yere of oure lorde god .M.CCCCC.ii. Enpry[n]ted in flete strete in [tha]t sygne of the son[n]e By me Wynkyn de Worde'. 
NO  - Colophon D3r: 'Here endeth the descrypcyon of Brytayne / the whiche conteyneth Englonde wales and Scotlonde/ and also bycause Irlonde is under the rule of Englynde and of olde tyme it hathe so contynued. therefore I haue sette the descrypcyon of the same after the sayd Brytayne/ whiche I haue taken out of Polycronycon. And bycause it is necessary too all Englysshmen to know the propretees co[m]modytees [and] meruaylles of the[m]. I wyllyam Caxton haue them sette fyrst in enpryynt accordynge to the translaco[n]n of Treuisa/ whiche atte request of the lorde Barkeley teanslated the boke of Polycronycon into Englysshe: fynysshed [and] enprynted in Flete strete in the syne of the sonne by me wynkyn de worde/ the yere of out lorde a.M.CCCCC.and.ii. mensis Mayus'. 
NO  - Device of de Worde on cc7v and D3v. 
NO  - Includes at end 'The descrypcyon of Englonde', 'The descrypcyon of Wales', The descrypcyon of Scotlonde' and The descrypcyon of Irlonde'. 
NO  - Inscriptions in English and Latin on recto of contemporary endpaper including: 'Caxton Chronicle Sometime Schoole Master of St. Albans .1483.' and references to John Major's De Gestis Scotorum and Cajus de Antiq[ue] Cant 'Cajus his Opinion seems most probable by the Conclusion of this Book'. 
NO  - Inscribed in an early hand on a1: 'Wyllyam Sethe'. 
NO  - 'Pope' has been crossed out throughout volume and replaced with 'byshoppe' in some cases. 
NO  - Manicules and some annotations including 'nota nota bene'. 
NO  - a1 has manuscript number 1, a2 manuscript number 2 and a3 manuscript number 3 written at end of page. 
NO  - Marsh's Library stamp on modern front flyleaf and a1. 
CN  - N2.4.13
KW  - Annotations
ER  -