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<dl><dd><div><span style="text-indent:-13px;">Higher resolution images of this copy are available on </span><span style="text-indent:-13px;">&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98qs209">https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98qs209</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;Digital Commonwealth&lt;/a&gt;</span><span style="text-indent:-13px;">.</span><br></div><div><br></div>Title from leaf CCCCxliiii; imprint from ISTC.</dd>
<dd>Signatures: pi⁶ a–z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ A–V⁸ X⁶ Y² chi²⁻¹ aa–ff⁸ gg⁶ hh-ii⁸ kk⁶.</dd>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dd>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]</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XI, 144</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, J-068</dd>
<dd>Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 408</dd>
<dd>English short title catalogue, S541</dd>
<dd>Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J148</dd>
<dd>Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00148000</dd>
<dd>Ricci, S. de. A census of Caxtons, 98-17</dd>
<dd>"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 Printed and the Pardoner.</dd>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.45 FOLIO with bookplates of John Towneley and of Aldenham House. Autograph of Henry Hucks Gibbs on front flyleaf recto, with pencil inscription tracing this copy to the sale of John Dunn Gardner on verso. Early marginalia, in various hands. Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in April, 1941.</dd>
<dd>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.</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Christian saints; Christian saints; Saints; Saints</div>
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<dl><dd>Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298</dd>
<dd>Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer</dd>
<dd>Towneley, John, 1731-1813, former owner. MB</dd>
<dd>Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1819-1907, former owner. MB</dd>
<dd>Gardner, John Dunn, former owner. MB</dd>
<dd>Whittingham, James, binder. MB</dd>
<dd>Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.</dd></dl></div>
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