[The English school-master / Edmund Coote].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coote, Edmund, active 1597.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readers (Primary)--Early works to 1800.

Readers (Primary).

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Early works to 1800.

English language.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding) -- Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Galton, John (inscription) (RBC copy)

Highmore, William (inscription) (RBC copy)

Oliver, Elizabeth Galton (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

[6+], 77, [1+] p. ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

First[-second] book of the English School-Master

Practice to the English School-Master

Fingerprint:

++++ ++++ rulu erhe (3) 1694 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[S.l. : s.n., not after 1694]

Contents:

The School-Master his Prof[...]ion

The Preface for direction to the Reader

The First Book of the English school-master

The second Book of the English School-Master

[The practice to the English School-Master]

To the reader.

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: all before leaf A2 (including title leaf) and after leaf L3 wanting. Title devised and statement of responsibility inferred by cataloger from running titles. Terminus ante quem for imprint date from autographs dated 1694 in Penn Libraries copy.

Signatures: A2-A4 B-K⁴ L1-L3.

Text of ABC page (leaf A4v) within border of type ornaments (14 fleurs-de-lis in horizontal rows and 15 fleurs-de-lis in vertical rows, all oriented to the corresponding leaf edge).

Type ornament head-pieces on leaves A2r (double row), B1r (single row), and H2r (single row).

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has early ms. notes, calculations and pen tests on leaf A2r; early ms. ABC and pen tests on leaf A4v; many leaves numbered in early ms. (numbers occasionally damaged due to cropping of head outer corners of leaves); occasional ink blots and smears on leaves.

RBC copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 1927.

RBC copy has dated 17th-century autograph ("Josiah Galton 1694") at foot of leaf D1v; dated 17th-century autograph ("Josiah Galton 1694") and pen tests at foot of leaf D2r; dated 17th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Josiah Galton his book anno domi[ni] 1694") on leaf D4r.

RBC copy bound in a portion of a ms. parchment leaf containing a legal document related to the disposition of the property of John Galton, also mentioning his executor William Highmore and Elizabeth Galton Oliver, with early pen tests and some illegible ms. inscriptions on covers; the parchment leaf is roughly stitched to the textblock. Text visible on p. [2] of cover reads: raigne of our Soveraigne Lord and [...] / Betweene John Galton of [...] / Dorsett Clerke of the other part [...] / the raigne of our late Soveraigne Lo[...] / part And the said John Galton of [...] / said John Galton All that mesua[...] / Pasture to the said mesuage or tenement belonging or [...] / Galton or her assignez / Except as in and by the said re[...] / and every part thereof with the appurtenn[a]ts (Except [...] / and nineteene yeard fully to bee compleate and ended [...] / and begin im[m]ediately from and after the end and expir[...] / the younger and Elizabeth Oliver then Elizabeth Gal[...] / [...] of lawfull English money As in and by [...]. Text visible on p. [3] of cover reads: assigned and [...] / lands hereditaments and premisses above recited [...] / demaund whatsoever as well in Equity as in lawe of [...] / thereof with the appurten[a]nts (Except as in and by th[...] / above recited and every part and parcell thereof w[...] / for and during all the rest and residue of the said [...] / administrators doth covenant and grant to and wi[...] / or thing by him the said John Galton done to the [...] / sell and assigne the said premisses hereby assigned [...] / and owing the remainder of the said terme above [...] / that he the said William Highmore his executore [...] / yett to come and unexpired peaceably and quietly [...] / thereof with the appurten[a]nts Without the le[...].

RBC copy: leaves of gatherings I and K bound in out of order as follows: I3, I4, I1, I2, K3, K4, K1, K2.

RBC copy: 3 holes in leaf A2 with minor loss of text; small hole in leaf A3 with minor loss of text.

OCLC:

1373362951