Research Catalog

Title

Diues & pauper.

Publication

[Westminster, London] : Emprentyd by me Wyken de Worde, at Westmonstre, [3 December 1496]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Parker, Henry, -after 1504
• Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?

Description

[392] pages : illustrations; 26 cm (fol.)

Summary

A dialogue on the Ten commandments, composed in the early 15th century, with an introductory section entitled "Of holy pouerte" (pages [21]-[32]).

Uniform Title

Dives and pauper.

Alternative Title

• Dyalogue of diues and pauper
• Dialogue of dives and pauper
• Ryche & the poore
• Rich and the poor
• Ryche and poore haue lyke comynge in to this worlde ...
• Of holy pouerte.
• Of holy poverty.

Subjects

• Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
• English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Texts
• Dialogues (Literature)
• Woodcuts > Great Britain > 15th century
• Dialogues, English (Middle)
• Incunabula > England > London
• Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > Early works to 1800
• Ten commandments > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Dialogues (Literature)
• Incunabula – England – London.
• Woodcuts – Great Britain – 15th century.

Note

• "Tabula" begins, page [3]: Ryche and poore haue lyke comynge in to this worlde, & lyke out goynge, but theyr lyuynge in this worlde is vnlyke, what sholde conforte a poore man, ayenst grutchynge, and what wyckednesses folowe louers of rychesses ...
• Title is xylographic, forming part of the title page woodcut.
• The traditional attribution to the Carmelite Henry Parker (see Dictionary of National Biography and Cambridge bibliography of English literature) was refuted by H.G. Richardson in Notes and queries, series 11, v. 4 (1911), pages 321-323. For further discussion, see Richardson, H.G. "Dives and pauper," in The library, v. 15, no. 1 (June 1934), pages 31-37; Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 11, page 272.
• First printed by Richard Pynson without illustrations, London, 1493; the present edition is based on Pynson's, which followed Bodleian Library Ms. Eng.th.d.36. See introduction by Priscilla Heath Barnum to Dives and pauper, 1976-2004 (v. 2, pages lxxv-lxxvi).
• Imprint from colophon (page [390]) which reads: "Here endeth a compendyouse treatyse dyalogue of diues and pauper. That is to saye, the ryche & the poore fructuously treatynge vpon the x co[m]mau[n]dementes, fynysshed the iij daye of Decembre. The yere of our Lorde God MXXXXlxxxxvi. Emprentyd by me Wyken de Worde at Westmonstre. Deo gracias.
• Signatures: A⁶ B⁴ a-x⁸ y-z⁶ &⁶.
• Printed in 2 columns. Gothic types (Duff, plates xiv and vxi); a3r: 41 lines; 194 x 137 mm.
• Illustrations: 5 full-page woodcuts, comprising the title cut (Hodnett 464; Pollard: Morgan, v. 3, page 208), with xylographic caption as above, repeated between Tabula and text and on verso of last leaf; a cut of St. Jerome (Hodnett 800 and fig. 22) on verso of title page, which had appeared in de Worde's 1495 edition of St. Jerome's Vitas patrum, and a cut of the Virgin and Child (Hodnett 463; Pollard: Morgan, v. 3, page 200) on recto of last leaf, which had appeared in de Worde's 1494 edition of Hylton's Scala perfectionis. Woodcut and ornamental initials in several sizes; lombards. Caxton's device (McKerrow, R.B. Printers' & publishers' devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640, entry 1, figure 1b) on verso of penultimate leaf (page [390]).

Indexed In (note)

• Incunabula short title catalogue
• Universal short title catalogue
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries
• Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum
• Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum
• Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books
• Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)
• Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library
• Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
• English short title catalogue
• Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram fourth earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan
• Hodnett, E. English woodcuts, 1480-1535
• Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525 (1968)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bodleian Library copy) via Early English Books Online.

Provenance (note)

• With engraved armorial bookplate of Baron Clifford of Chudleigh; because the engraved lines do not represent the tinctures accurately, it has been suggested that it was made for the first or second baron, respectively Thomas Clifford, Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1630-1673) and Hugh Clifford, Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663?-1730). With a few marginal manuscript notes.

Binding (note)

• 17th(?) century mottled calf, gilt-stamped on spine. Edges marbled.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1496 (Parker, H. Dives)

OCLC

54178498

Title

Diues & pauper.

Publisher

[Westminster, London] : Emprentyd by me Wyken de Worde, at Westmonstre, [3 December 1496]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00118000 http://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00118000

Universal short title catalogue, 500242 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/500242

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-118

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 6110

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6110

Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 340

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 19213

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 3996

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 4127

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, P-033 http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/P-033

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 9706

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 11, p. 209

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M29466 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M29466.htm

English short title catalogue, S104285

Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram fourth earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Early printed books, v. 3, pages 207-208, entry 734

Hodnett, E. English woodcuts, 1480-1535, entries 463-464, 800; fig. 22

Grolier Club. Fifty-five books printed before 1525 (1968), 20

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bodleian Library copy) via Early English Books Online.

Binding

17th(?) century mottled calf, gilt-stamped on spine. Edges marbled. NN

Provenance

With engraved armorial bookplate of Baron Clifford of Chudleigh; because the engraved lines do not represent the tinctures accurately, it has been suggested that it was made for the first or second baron, respectively Thomas Clifford, Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1630-1673) and Hugh Clifford, Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663?-1730). With a few marginal manuscript notes. NN

Place of Publication

England London.

England Westminster, London.

Added Author

Parker, Henry, -after 1504, attributed name.

Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer.

Clifford of Chudleigh, Barons, former owner.

Added Title

Of holy pouerte.

Of holy poverty.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1496 (Parker, H. Dives)