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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Title(s):
[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia / Wyllyam Caxton].
Additional Title(s):

Lombardica historia

Golden legende

Legenda aurea. English
Published/Created:
[Westminster, London, England] : [William Caxton], [after 20 Nov. 1483]
Physical Description:
449 leaves : illustrations, portraits ; 33 x 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0378
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Thus endeth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in englysshe the golden legende"--Page CCCCxliiii.
Attributed to Jacobus de Voragine by STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre- 1956 imprints.
Dated and signed at end: " ... at Westmestre the twenty day of nouembre the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxiii ... by me Wyllyam Caxton."
Imprint suggested by NUC pre-1956 imprints and STC (2nd ed.).
English short title catalogue, S541
Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00148000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-148
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6472
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M11430, M11432
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0378: Imperfect: leaf xxxii only, with woodcut of "The dedication of the temple or of the chirche" on the verso. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Saints -- Early works to 1800.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492, printer.
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