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Vitas patrum
Vitae patrum. English.
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- [Westminster : Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495]
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- [8], lxxxxiii, lxxxiii-CCCxlvii leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
- An edition of: Vitae patrum.
- Sometimes attributed to St. Jerome.
- The title is xylographic (white on black).
- Colophon reads: Thus endith the moost vertuouse historye of the devoute [and] right renommed lives of holy faders .. translated out of Frenshe in to Englishe by William Caxton of Westminstre late deed, and finished it at the last daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westminstre be my Wynkyn de Worde the yeare of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxv. and the tenth yeare of our soveraine lorde king Henry the seventh.
- Signatures: 2A a-o p⁶ q-x y¹⁰ z-2t 2v-2x⁶.
- Prologue, 2A2r, begins: Here foloweth the right devoute, moche lowable, [and] reco[m]mendable lyff of the olde auncient holy faders hermites, late translated out of latin in to frenshe, and diligently corrected in the cite of lyon, ye yeare of our lord. M.CCCC.lxxxvi. upon that whiche hath be writen and also translated out of Greeke in to Latin, by the blessed [and] holy saint Saynt Jerome .. [and] other solitarye religiouse persones after hy[m] and after in the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxi. reduced in to Englysshe ..
- There 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.
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
- STC (2nd ed.) 14507.
- Duff 235.
- Copinger 2961.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.