Thus endeth the legende named in Latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende

Item Information

Title:
Thus endeth the legende named in Latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende
Title (alt.):
Golden legend
Title (uniform):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea. English
Description:
"Quires a-t and A-E of The Golden Legend exist in a single setting. The remaining quires are known in duplicate settings. One setting [A] of these quires has the same layout as the common quires a-t and A-E, using type 3 for the headlines. The other setting [B] used type 5 for the headlines. Most copies consist of either only A-settings or only B-settings for these duplicated quires, but a few copies contain mixtures of A- and B-quires. There is good reason to believe that the duplicate settings were produced concurrently."--Paul Needham. The Printer and the Pardoner.
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Printer:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
Former owner:
Towneley, John, 1731-1813
Former owner:
Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1819-1907
Binder:
Whittingham, James
Former owner:
Glendening, Robert
Former owner:
Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Former owner:
Lilly, Joseph, 1804-1870
Former owner:
Rosenbach Company
Date:
November 20, 1483–March 1484
Format:
Books
Genre:
Woodcuts
Inscriptions
Marginalia
Armorial bookplates
Signed bindings
Pen facsimiles
Incunabula
Incunabula--Great Britain
Royal folios
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
Saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
Saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
Places:
England > London
Extent:
[6], Clxxxxix, CCi-CCliii, CClv-CClxxxxvi, CClxxxxix-CCCxli, CCCxliii-CCClxviii, CCClxx-[CCClxxvi], CCClxxii-CCCCxliiii, [1] [i.e. 449] leaves : ill., ports. ; 36 cm (fol.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98qs209
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Restrictions:
Access to physical copy/copies by appointment only. Please contact Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department for further information.
Publisher:
[Westminster] : [William Caxton]
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from leaf CCCCxliiii; imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.45 FOLIO formerly owned by John Towneley. Bought through his sale (Evans) in June, 1814 by C. Hutton (catalog no. 654). Later to Robert Glendening, of Portsea, then sold through Joseph Lilly in 1864 to Henry Hucks Gibbs (see de Ricci's Census of Caxtons, no. 98, entry 17). Bookplates of John Towneley and of Aldenham House. Autograph of Henry Hucks Gibbs on front flyleaf recto, dated 1864. Early marginalia, in various hands. Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in April, 1941.
Notes (citation):
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library, XI, 144
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, J-068
Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 408
English short title catalogue, S541
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J148
Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00148000
Ricci, S. de. A census of Caxtons, 98-17
Notes (object):
Signatures: pi⁶ a–z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ A–V⁸ X⁶ Y² chi²⁻¹ aa–ff⁸ gg⁶ hh-ii⁸ kk⁶.
Royal folio; printed in double columns, a2 recto: 55 lines plus headline, 276 (287) x 173 mm; types: 3:135G (headlines, headings of table, headings, first lines and colophons of chapters, lettering in cut on pi3 recto), 4:95(100)B* (text), headlines in the reprinted quires are set in type 5:113G and text is set in 4:95(100)B*; initial spaces, most with guide letters.
Errors in folation, misnumbering: lii-liiii as lviiii, lvi, and lv; Cxlviii as Cxlvii, Clviii as Clvii, Clxiiii as Clxv, Clxxiii as CLxxiiii, CCCxiii and CCCxiiii as CCCviii and CCCxi, CCCxlix as CCCxlvii, CCClxvii-CCClxviii as CCClxvi-CCClxvii, CCClxxii as CCClxvi, CCClxxiiii-CCClxxvi as CCClxxi, CCClxxi, and CCClxxii, CCCCiii as CCCCiiii [i.e. 52-54 as 59, 56, and 55; 148 as 147, 158 as 157, 164 as 165, 173 as 174, 313-314 as 308 and 311, 349 as 347, 367-368 as 366-367, 372 as 366, 374-376 as 371, 371, and 372; 403 as 404]
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.45 FOLIO imperfect. 27 leaves wanting: pi1-b5, n8-o2, B4, kk1, kk4-kk6, i.e., [1-6], i-xiii, Cv-Cvii, CCxii, CCCCxl, CCCCxliii-CCCCxliiii, and the final blank. A further 27 leaves remargined and apparently inserted from another copy or copies, with losses to text and headlines replaced in manuscript: b6-d8, x4-x5, [con]3-[con]4, B5, O5, dd1, and gg4, i.e., xiiii-xxxii, Clxv-Clxvi, Clxxxxvi-clxxxxvii, CCxiii, CCCxi, CCClxxxxiiii, and CCCCxxi. Rubricated in red throughout. Leaf dimensions: 344 x 228 mm. For further description, see: More Books/BPL Quarterly, vol. XVI (1941) pp. 253-260.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.45 FOLIO bound by Whittingham, of Southwell, in brown goatskin paneled and tooled in blind. Spine paneled and tooled in blind with title stamped in gilt. All text block edges gilt.
Identifier:
06_01_016988
Call #:
RARE BKS Q.402.45 FOLIO
Barcode:
39999085274015