Vitas patrum.
1495
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Title
Vitas patrum.
Uniform title
Vitae patrum. English.
Created/published
[Westminster] : [Printed by Wynkyn de Worde], [1495]
Description
[8], lxxxxiii, lxxxiii-CCCxlvii leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Note
Sometimes attributed to St. Jerome.
The title is xylographic (white on black).
Colophon reads: Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute [and] right renommed lyues of holy faders .. translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre late deed, and fynysshed it at the last daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre be my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxv. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the seuenth.
Signatures: 2A⁸ a-o⁸ p⁶ q-x⁸ y¹⁰ z-2t⁸ 2v-2x⁶.
Prologue, 2A2r, begins: Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, [and] reco[m]mendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes, late translated out of latyn in to frenshe, and dylygently corrected in the cyte of lyon, ye yere of our lord. M.CCCC.lxxxvi. vpon that whiche hath be wryten and also translated out of Greke in to Latyn, by the blessyd [and] holy saynt Saynt Ierome .. [and] other solytarye relygyouse persones after hy[m] and after in the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxi. reduced in to Englysshe ..
There are variants of 2A1, q2.7, and the colophon. "One L copy has some leaves reprinted c. 1529 w. a woodcut of about that date"--STC.
The title is xylographic (white on black).
Colophon reads: Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute [and] right renommed lyues of holy faders .. translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre late deed, and fynysshed it at the last daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre be my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxv. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the seuenth.
Signatures: 2A⁸ a-o⁸ p⁶ q-x⁸ y¹⁰ z-2t⁸ 2v-2x⁶.
Prologue, 2A2r, begins: Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, [and] reco[m]mendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes, late translated out of latyn in to frenshe, and dylygently corrected in the cyte of lyon, ye yere of our lord. M.CCCC.lxxxvi. vpon that whiche hath be wryten and also translated out of Greke in to Latyn, by the blessyd [and] holy saynt Saynt Ierome .. [and] other solytarye relygyouse persones after hy[m] and after in the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxi. reduced in to Englysshe ..
There are variants of 2A1, q2.7, and the colophon. "One L copy has some leaves reprinted c. 1529 w. a woodcut of about that date"--STC.
ESTC staff note
Rpm 11/15/96
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 14507
Duff, 235
Copinger, 2961
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109796
Duff, 235
Copinger, 2961
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109796
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Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Westminster.
Call number
STC 14507 (folio)
Folger-specific note
HH123/19. Made-up copy; leaf 2x6 (with title woodcut and Caxton's device) supplied in facsimile. Manuscript notes on 2f8v and 2g1r. Modern blind-tooled calf binding. Provenance: inscription on 2A2r: "Liber Robart [Boys?]"; bookplate of the Huth library (no. 7816 in the Sotheby sale catalog of the Huth collection, July 1919); Harmsworth copy; purchased in 1938.