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

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Type
Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date
[1507]
Call number
642240
Creator
Jacobus (approximately 1229-1298)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller on behalf of The Huntington at PBA Galleries Sale 796, lot #7, September 7, 2023. Marks of emphasis and scattered individual numbers. Contemporary inscription on leaf E5v: Adam Daunynge a...[?] thes bouke. Ms. annotations (cropped and illegible) on leaf D8r. Ms. word translations on leaves d1r. I6v, at section heading, "14 september". Pencil notes with marks of emphasis and manicules in life of Michael. Pen-trial on N4r, "Phillupe samsone Edwarde Robartsbensune". Next to "Thus endeth the life of saynt Brandon" on Z8r, MS. note "lyes". Pen reference to Bishop [Francis] Atterbury's sermons, on recto of leaf M7. Marks of emphasis and scattered individual numbers. Two autographed letters to Baron Kenyon from William Amhurst Thyssen, Lord Amherst of Hackney, 7 and 14 Dec. 1902, identifying this issue with that at Lambeth Palace and recommending Quaritch as an agent for facsimiles, previously laid in and now removed to Provenance File. Binding stamp and leather bookplate of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, Baron Kenyon. Sold at Christie's (London) auction 14 July 2021:80 and PBA Galleries auction, 7 Sept.2023:7.
Dimensions
28 cm (folio)
Associated people
Caxton, William, (approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,)
Pynson, Richard, (-1530,)
Worde, Wynkyn de, (-1534?,)
Kenyon, Lloyd Tyrell-Kensyon, (1864-1927,)
Amherst, William Amhurst Thyssen, (1835-1909.)
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