Geschiedenis van het heylighe cruys
Subtitle: or, History of the holy cross.
By: Reproduced in fac-simile from the original edition printed by J. Veldener in 1483. Text and engravings by J. Ph. Berjeau.
Contributors: Veldner, Jan., fl. 1473-1485.; Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298.; Berjeau, Jean Philibert, 1809-1891.
Publisher: C. J. Stewart
Published: 1863
Place of publication: London
Language: dut; eng; fre
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Holy Cross -- Legends.; Incunabula -- Facsimiles.
Other titles: History of the holy cross.
Notes: Original without title.
Signatures of facsimilie: a¹⁰, a-b⁸, d⁷ ([a₁]ro) blank; [d₇]vo blank, with the exception of colophon: Dit is ghemaect in ... culenborch ... M.CCCC. eñ ixxxiij ... by my ian veldener. G. L.
Under each woodcut a stanza of 4 lines in Dutch.
"The present legend, rhymed by an unknown Dutch author, was very likely the translation of a Latin one, affixed to the original block book of the Historia crucis, which was sawn in pieces by Veldener to use separately the woodcuts in a quarto book."--Introd., p. [iii]-iv. (For full description of original edition (1483) see Schreiber, Manuel de la gravure, t. 4, p. 361-366; Dibdin, Bibl. Spencer, v. 3, p. 348-377)
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: History of the cross: Text, with illustrative extracts from the Golden legend and ancient French mss.; title: English version.; title: French version.; title: Facsimile.