Without title page. Head of [pi]2, recto: Incipit tabula huius libri.

Sometimes known as the Vieux abridgment or Vetus abbreviamentum. --cf. Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments, p. xix.

Imprint from colophon, which begins: Explicit abbreuiamentu[m] statuto[rem].

"... only distinguishable [from 1499 ed.] by tpographical variations. ... The state of the device, which is much more broken than that in no. 3, suggests that this impresion may be from three to four years later than the date given in the colophon." --Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements, p. xx.

Suggested actual date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: [pi]⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁴ [$1 signed]

Printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3) after colophon.

In black letter type.

Initials.

Abridgment of the statutes through the parliament of 1497/1498, 12 Henry VII; titles and references in alphabetical order.

The 1499 impression of this work (STC 9514) was the first in which the title 'abbreviamentum statutorum' appears. --cf. Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgments, p.xx.

STC (2nd ed.) 9515

Beale, J.H. Engl. law S41

Duff 377

Copinger 5611

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements 4

Goff A5

GW 5

"The statutes of Henry VII, although originally written in English are here abridged in Anglo-Norman." --Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements, p.xx.