Colophon or ‘Lenuoye’ of de Worde’s edition of Hilton —
two 8-line stanzas
Author(s): Wynkyn de Worde; Walter Hilton
Title(s): Scala Perfeccionis
Subjects: colophons; patronage
Versification: —
eight-line
1.Source: STC 14042. Walter Hylton,
Scala Perfeccionis, [de Worde], 1494 , sig. t.5
First Lines:Infynite laude wyth thankynges many folde
I yelde to god me
socouryng wyth his grace…
Last Lines:…This myghty pryncesse hath commaunded me
Temprynt this boke
her grace for to deserue
Note: Note that Caxton’s symbol with ‘W C’ in decorated box
is at bottom of sig. t.v, under colophon, ‘finit feliciter liber
intitulatus Scala perfeccionis inpressus anno salutis
M.CCCC.lxxxxiiii’.
Editions:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.
Typographical Antiquities. Revised Joseph Ames and William
Herbert.
4 vols. London: Bulmer, 1810, 1812, 1816, 1818: 2.36-7.
Plomer, Henry Robert.
Wynkyn de Worde & His Contemporaries….
London: Grafton, 1925: 52.