The kalender of shepherdes :
the edition of Paris 1503 in photographic facsimile [and] a faithful reprint of R. Pynson's edition of London 1506 /
edited with a critical introduction and glossary, by H. Oskar Sommer.
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London :
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1892.
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| Notes: | "Only 300 copies of this edition are printed." -- Half-title verso of v.1. Two early versions from the French: the first in broad Scots, printed at Paris in 1503, probably by Antoine Verard, under the title: Kalendayr of Shyppars; the second, a revised English edition of the Scottish, printed in London by Richard Pynson, 1506, under title: Kalender of Shepherdes. Cf. E. Gordon Duff, "The first two books printed in the Scottish language" (Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society ; v. 1, no. 14). "Various editions of ʻLe compost et kalendrier des bergiers' ... [and] of "The kalender of shepherdes": p.[11]-57. "It is a medley of verse and prose, and contains among many other curious particulars, the saints of the whole year, the movable feasts, the signs of the zodiac, the properties of the twelve months, rules for blood-leeting, a collection of proverbs, a system of ethics, politics, divinity, physiognomy, medicine, astrology, and geography." Physical description: 3 v. in 1 : facsims ; 26 cm. (4to) more |
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