In connection with some work I am doing for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, I have had reason to look at a number of printed books, including a copy of
The Contemplaycion of Synners, printed by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in July 1499:
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Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Phi.C.1.6, fols.Aiv-Aiir
[By permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford] |
The start of the text faces a woodcut depicting the work being presented to Richard Fox, as Bishop of Durham (1494-1501), who would later found Corpus Christi in 1517. The same woodcut appears on the recto of the first leaf and, as can be seen from the inscription in the lower margin, this copy was given to the College by Nathaniel Ellison in 1708.
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Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Phi.C.1.6, fols.Ai r
[By permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford]
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More interesting is the crossed-through inscription in the upper margin, however:
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Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Phi.C.1.6, fols.Ai r
[By permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford]
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