"Here begynneth a lytell Cronycle, translated & imprinted at the cost &
charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the comaundement of the ryght high and
mighty prince, Edwarde duke of Buckingham, yerle of Gloucestre,
Staffarde, and of Northamton," over a large woodcut. Colophon: "Here
endeth, [_&c_.] Imprinted by the sayd _Richarde Pynson_, printer unto
the Kinges noble grace." Date conjectured to be between 1520 and 1530.
Pynson's device, No. 5, at the end. Collation: A--E, and H, in sixes; F
and G, and I, in fours; forty-eight leaves.
On the verso of fol. 35, "Here endeth y^e boke of thistoris of thoriet
partes copyled by a relygious man frere Hayton frere of Premostre
order, sotyme lorde of court & cosyn german to the kyng of Armeny vpon
y^e passage of the holy lande. By the comaudement of y^e holy fader y^e
apostle of Rome Clemet the V. in y^e cite of Potiers which boke I
Nicholas Falcon, writ first in French ... I haue traslated it in Latyn
for our holy father y^e pope. In the yere of our lorde god M.CCC.VII.
in y^e moneth of August. Deo gras."
"The travels of Hayton into the Holy Land and Armenia, and his history
of Asia, is one of the most valuable of the early accounts of the east.
The present is the only translation into English, and from the
circumstances of its being printed by Pynson and having been (when in
Mr Heber's collection) bound with two other works (Mirrour of good
Maners and Sallust) both translated by Barclay, was probably also
translated by him. It is a book of extraordinaiy rarity, no perfect
copy that can be traced having previously occured for sale."
(Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, vol. I.)
Heber's copy (the one above mentioned), £40. 9s. 6d.
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