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Here begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende ...

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Contributor:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Series:
Early English books online
Standardized Title:
Legenda aurea. English
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Christian saints--Early works to 1800.
Christian saints.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (4 unnumbered leaves, xli, xl-CClix, CClxi-CCCxl, CCCxl-CCCCxxix leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts)
Other Title:
Legenda aurea.
Golden legende.
Varyed in many and dyuers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Varyed in many and dyvers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Place of Publication:
[Westminster : Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1493 (20 May)]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
A translation of: Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea.
Translation, probably by William Caxton, based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.
"This is the only ed[ition]. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Title from opening words of text.
Colophon reads: T¹⁵hus 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,.
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-e F² f-z [et] [con] ē⁴ A-Y 2a-2e 2f⁶ 2g⁴.
Secundo folio: varyed in many [and] dyuers places, [and] also many hystoryes were co[m]prysed in ye two other bookes ..
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 301:3) s1999 miun s
Cited in:
STC (2nd edition) 24875.
Duff 410.
Copinger 6474.
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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