Here begynneth the legende in latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende. For lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys.  so this legende excelleth all other bookes.
Jacobus,de Voragine,approximately 1229-1298.
Caxton, William,approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Worde, Wynkyn de,-1534?,printer.
Tate, John,-1507,papermaker.
Stirton, John,1871-1944,former owner.StEdNL
Westmynster : Wynkyn de Worde,
the viii. daye of Janeuer the yere of oure lorde thousande CCCClxxxxviii. [8 Jan. 1498 i.e.               1499?]
Anonymous. By Jacobus de Voragine.
Title from recto of [2H]1.
Imprint from colophon.
Translated by William Caxton?--STC.
In two parts.
Part 2: leaves 70, 74 and 145 misnumbered 71, 72 and 146.
Woodcut illustration on title page.
Signatures: 2A-2F⁸ 2G⁶ [2H]⁴ a-h⁸ i10 k-z⁸ A-Y⁸ 2a-2b⁸ 2c-2d⁶.
Bookseller's catalogue cutting notes that the leaf is printed on paper with the watermark of John Tate's paper-mill: an eight petal flower within a double circle. Tate, the earliest paper maker in England, established a mill at Hertford about 1494.
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
GW
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Duff
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Presented by the Rev. Dr Stirton in November 1943.
Unbound. In a portfolio with catalogue cutting (no. 84) pasted to inside of front flap.
Christian saints
England Westminster.