Vitas patrum.
Contributors: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.; Worde, Wynkyn de, d. 1534?, printer.; Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873, former owner.; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Be my Wynkyn de Worde
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Fathers of the church -- Biography; Christian saints -- Biography; Hermits -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Lyfe of olde auncyent faders; Here foloweth the right deuoute, moche lowable, [and] reco[m]mendable lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes
Notes: Translated from the French by William Caxton.
"By the blessyd [and] holy saynt Saynt Ierome ... [and] other solytarye relygyouse persones after hy[m] ...": leaf Aa2.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: Aa⁸ a-o⁸ p⁶ q-x⁸ y¹⁰ z-2t⁸ 2v-2x⁶.
Error in foliation: lxxxxiii repeated.
The title is xylographic (white on black).
LC Vollbehr Collection copy 1 bound in full leather, stamped in gilt and blind; inside dentelles, with blind stamping on the paste-down endpapers.
LC Vollbehr Collection copy 2 imperfect: leaf CCCxlvii [i.e. 348] in facsimile (cf. Vollbehr's files, Proctor 9697), and used as t.p. (wanting original); book measures 27 cm., bound in red leather, with coat-of-arms of Curzon in gilt on cover; inside dentelles.
LC Vollbehr Collection copy 1 has armorial bookplate.
LC Vollbehr Collection copy 2 has armorial bookplate of Curzon.
Goff H-213
Copinger 2961
Proctor 9697