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<dl><dd>The legend of St. Ursula and the virgin martyrs of Cologne<div><div>CONTENTS </div><div>Introduction </div><div>PART I. </div><div>THE LEGEND OF SAINT URSULA. </div><div>CHAPTER I. </div><div>Parentage of Saint Ursula — Agrippinus, King of the Piets, and his son Conan — Embassy to the Court of Dionotus, father of Ursula, with proposals of Marriage        1 </div><div>CHAPTER II. </div><div>The Ambassadors of Agrippinus arrive at the Court of Dionotus — Ursula is directed by a Vision — The answers of Dionotus to the Embassy — The Messengers return to Agrippinus     9 </div><div>CHAPTER III. </div><div>Building the Vessels for the Company of Virgins — Saint Ursula and Dionotus visit the Shipwrights — The Virgins assemble at the Court of Dionotus — The names of the principal Commanders —  The Fleet exercises in the Harbour of Plymouth.     15 </div><div>CHAPTER IV. </div><div>Departure of the Fleet from Britain — Arrival at Thiel, in Holland — Their Reception — The Fleet proceeds to Cologne — Welcome of the Archbishop and Sigillindis     35 </div><div>CHAPTER V. </div><div>The Vision of Saint Ursula at Cologne — She leads her companions to Rome — Their reception by Cyriacus, the Pope 33 </div><div>CHAPTER VI. </div><div>The Departure from Rome — The Vision of Cyriacus — Arrival of the Company at Bale — Conan prepares an expedition in search of Saint Ursula — He arrives at Mayence — Is instructed by Rutherius in the principles of Christianity — Saint Ursula and her Companions arrive at Mayence — Meeting of Saint Ursula and Conan — Conan is Baptised — The Martyrs leave Mayence  43 </div><div>CHAPTER VII. </div><div>The Emperor Maximinus publishes an edict against the Christians — The Company of Virgins approach Cologne — The Exhortation of Cyriacus — The Fleet arrives at the City — The Huns fall upon the defenceless Martyrs — The Massacre miraculously stayed — Saint Ursula and Conan led before Aasvahs, the Barbarian Leader — The Execution of Conan — The proposal of Aasvahs to Saint Ursula — The Saint's temptation   55 </div><div>CHAPTER VIII. </div><div>The noble resolution of Saint Ursula — Aasvahs gives orders for her Execution — She receives her Eternal Crown — Conclusion   63 </div><div>PART II. </div><div>METRICAL LEGEND OF SAINT URSULA. </div><div>Facsimile of Wynkyn de Worde's Edition     72 </div><div>APPENDIX. </div><div>Hans Memling and the Flemish School of Art — Early Ecclesiastical Paintings — The Byzantine School — The Brothers Van Eyck — Hemling or Memling — The Hospital of John of Bruges — Memling designs the celebrated Shrine of S. Ursula — Religious Art in the Fifteenth Century 103 </div><div>Roman Inscription found at Cologne     119 </div></div><div>----</div></dd>
<dd>Text within ornamental borders</dd>
<dd>Includes reprint of "The metrical legend of St. Ursula, from the original edition of Wynkyn de Worde" / by Edmund Hatfield, p. 69-100</dd>
<dd>Text is identical to The legend of Saint Ursula and her companions, also pub. by Hotten in 1869, but this lacks the chromolithographed plates</dd>
<dd>Frontispiece also appears in Henry Shaw's Dresses and decorations, (London, 1843) where it is identified as a painting of St. Agnes by Lucas Van Leyden</dd>
<dd>MASS copy 1-2: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind. Central panel is identical to the binding design found on John Charles Robinson, The treasury of ornamental art (London: Day &amp; Son, [1857]). Binder's ticket: Leighton Son and Hodge. Copy 1 with presentation inscription dated 1876</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens; Ursula, Saint; Memling, Hans, 1430?-1494; Incunabula -- Facsimiles; Cologne (Germany). -- Sankt Ursula (Church)</div>
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<dl><dd>Hatfield, Edmund</dd>
<dd>Leighton, Son and Hodge (binder)</dd></dl></div>
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