Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to say in Englyshe the Golden legende ...
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Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to say in Englyshe the Golden legende ...
Uniform title
Legenda aurea. English
Created/published
[Westminster] : [Wynkyn de Worde], [20 May 1493]
Description
[4], xli, xl-CClix, CClxi-CCCxl, CCCxl-CCCCxxix leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
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Note
A translation, probably by William Caxton, based in part on the French translation of Jacobus de Voragine.
"This is the only ed. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Colophon reads: Thus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn Legenda aurea .. whiche werke I dyde accomplisshed [sic] at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte Erle [and] my specyal good Lord Wyllyam Erle of Arondel, And now hane [sic] renewed [and] fynysshed it at Westmestre the xx day of May, The yere of our Lord MCCCClxxxxiii, And in the viii yere of the reygne off Kynge Henry the vii, by me Wyllyam Caxton.
Publisher statement from STC.
"This is the only ed. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Colophon reads: Thus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn Legenda aurea .. whiche werke I dyde accomplisshed [sic] at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte Erle [and] my specyal good Lord Wyllyam Erle of Arondel, And now hane [sic] renewed [and] fynysshed it at Westmestre the xx day of May, The yere of our Lord MCCCClxxxxiii, And in the viii yere of the reygne off Kynge Henry the vii, by me Wyllyam Caxton.
Publisher statement from STC.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109642
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24875
Duff 410
Copinger, 6474
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-150
Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons, 107.27
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24875
Duff 410
Copinger, 6474
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-150
Ricci, S. de. Census of Caxtons, 107.27
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Westminster.
Item Details
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STC 24875 (folio)
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: wanting leaves pi1-4, a1-2 and a7-8, b1 and b8, f8, z4, A8, D2-6, S5, and 2d4-2g4; leaves n7, p1, and r3-5 from another copy. A few manuscript notes in margins in brown ink, with underlining and "nota" marks; defacing of words "pope" and "saint Thomas of Canterbury". Black goatskin binding with gilt panels and turn-ins; marbled end-papers; all edges marbled. Bookplate of the Dogmersfield library (no. 550 in the Sotheby sale catalog of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay's library, April 1907) bearing shelfmark "d.2"; booklabel of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth and shelfmark? "A"and "4" with his booklabel; purchased in 1938.