The tale of a nun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, translator.

Simons, Lion, 1862-1932, translator.

Potter, Edwin S., printer.

Monk's Head Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Legends.

Mary.

Legends--Netherlands.

Legends.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Genre:

Legends.

Private press books (Printing)

Van Gelder (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)

Ransom, Will (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], 43 pages ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Privately printed by E.S.P. of the Monk's Head], MCMI [1901].

Notes:

"Translated [by L. Housman and L. Simons] from the verse of an old mediaeval Dutch legend, written probably about the year 1320, by an author whose name is now unknown."

Reprinted: The pageant; edited by C. Hazelwood Shannon and J.W. Gleeson White. London, 1896-97. volume 1, pages 95-116.

250 copies printed on Van Gelder paper.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection has copy number 247.

OCLC:

41933767