Vitas patrum

Other author Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20, attributed name.
Other author Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Westminster : Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495]
Description[8], lxxxxiii, lxxxiii-CCCxlvii leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
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Uniform titleVitae patrum. English.
Variant title Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, and recommendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes.
Variant title Here foloweth the right devoute, moche lowable, and recommendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAn edition of: Vitae patrum.
General noteSometimes attributed to St. Jerome.
General noteThe title is xylographic (white on black).
General noteColophon reads: Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute [and] right renommed lyues of holy faders .. translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre late deed, and fynysshed it at the last daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre be my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxv. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the seuenth.
General noteSignatures: 2A a-o p⁶ q-x y¹⁰ z-2t 2v-2x⁶.
General notePrologue, 2A2r, begins: Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, [and] reco[m]mendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes, late translated out of latyn in to frenshe, and dylygently corrected in the cyte of lyon, ye yere of our lord. M.CCCC.lxxxvi. vpon that whiche hath be wryten and also translated out of Greke in to Latyn, by the blessyd [and] holy saynt Saynt Ierome .. [and] other solytarye relygyouse persones after hy[m] and after in the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxi. reduced in to Englysshe ..
General noteThere are variants of 2A1, q2.7, and the colophon. "One L copy has some leaves reprinted c. 1529 w. a woodcut of about that date"--STC.
General noteReproduction of the original in the British Library.
References STC (2nd ed.) 14507.
Citation/References note Duff 235.
Citation/References note Copinger 2961.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2:03)
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