The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
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The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain; Printing -- Great Britain -- History
Ursyn Mylner, the second printer in York, has a much clearer history
than his predecessor. He was born in 1481, but we find no mention of
him until 1511, unless he is the Ursyn who supplied some books for
the King’s library in 1502. In 1511 he was a witness in the lawsuit
which we have previously described. About 1513 he printed two _Nova
Festa_ of York use. The first is an edition of the _Festum Visitationis
Beate Marie Virginis_, and the colophon stated that it was newly
printed by Ursyn Mylner dwelling in the churchyard of the minster
of St Peter. This book was chronicled by Ames as in the collection
of Thomas Rawlinson, and again I must add the sad statement, all
traces of it have since been lost. I searched through Rawlinson’s
sale catalogue--sixteen volumes--without result, but last year in the
Bodleian I came across a note-book among the Rawlinson manuscripts in
which he had entered fairly full notices of some of his books, and here
I found the colophon as given by Ames. The date of the book can be
accurately settled. In 1513 the Convocation of York ordered the Feast
of the Visitation to be kept as a Festum Principale; by 1516 Mylner had
moved to a new address.
The second of the _Nova Festa_ was a small supplement to the Sanctorale
of the _Breviary_ and the only copy known, found in the binding of
a book, is in the library of Emmanuel College. The book in which it
was found was printed in 1512, and from the fact that these leaves,
which are printer’s waste, were used in the binding, this binding may
perhaps be attributed to Mylner. The tract consists of four leaves
in 8°, with thirty-three and thirty-four lines to the page, and
commences with a large initial P printed in colour. The text is in
red and black, and many of the lines end with small type-ornaments.
It is slightly mutilated, but has most of the colophon, which runs:
“Impressum Ebor per me Ursin Mylner commemorantem in simiterio
ministerii Sancti Petri.” In the colophons to both these _Nova Festa_
we find _commemorantem_ in place of _commorantem_. It is probably
the tract referred to vaguely in the introduction to Wordsworth and
Proctor’s edition of the Sarum _Breviary_ as “An English monastic
Breviary supplement, with anthems and responds for St Thomas and St
Edmund of Canterbury, was printed at York about 1513.” Presumably their
information about it was obtained from Henry Bradshaw. In the more
recently issued book on the Old English Service Books, York is credited
with no printed _Nova Festa_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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