Precedentia Tempore Regni Hen. VIII. Circa 1500.
Vellum, 11½ x 8½ inches, ff. 124 (imperfect, commences at f. 10), 37 lines to a page. Rough calf binding.
Book of Precedents of Royal Writs.
Search Boke For Lynn, Swaffham, Walsyngham, and Fakenham. XVIIth century.
Paper, 11 x 7½ inches, ff. 81. Vellum binding.
Alphabetical index of offenders at various sessions courts held at Fakenham, Walsingham, Lynn and Swaffham, from 1651 to 1669.
The early printed books in the Library include no less than twenty-eight incunabula, four of these being from English presses, and two, the 1483 “Scriptum super logica,” printed at St. Albans, and the 1497 “Expositio Hymnorum et Sequentiarum,” printed by Pynson, are of great rarity. Several of the incunabula are imperfect, but Mr. Alfred W. Pollard, M.A., the Hon. Secretary of the Bibliographical Society and an eminent authority on early printed books, very kindly identified them, and he also undertook to edit the list of incunabula. To Mr. Pollard the writer’s thanks are tendered for the following annotated list, arranged chronologically, and giving the place of printing and the name of the printer:—
WORKS REFERRED TO.
B.M. = Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Parts 1-111. 1908-1913.
Campbell. = Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XVe siecle. Par M. F. A. G. Campbell. 1874.