Three incunabula (two English and one from Lyons) were bought by the British Library at the sale. The books are (i) John Alcock. Sermo in die Innocentium pro episcopo puerorum, [Westminster]: Wynkyn de Worde, about 1498; (ii) Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus curatorum, London: Richard Pynson, 28 April 1500; and (iii) Carolus Maneken, Formulae epistolarum, with Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, De remedio amoris, De amore, Lyons: [Hémon David or Gaspard Ortuin], 1493. One page from Wynkyn de Worde is illustrated in the AR.
Item Provenance
John Vertue, Bishop of Portsmouth; given in 1894 with his library to Stonyhurst College, until sold in 2003.