Salisbury, Cathedral Library (GB)
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ISTC No.ij00150000
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
TitleLegenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [English] The Golden Legend. Tr.: William Caxton
Imprint[Westminster : Wynkyn de Worde], 20 May 1493
Formatf°
Languageeng
SubjectHagiography
Keywordsliterature devotional; liturgy; translation
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id02141241
Holding InstitutionSalisbury, Cathedral Library (GB)
Shelfmark[Please see library staff]
NoteCreated by Anne Dutton
Physical DescriptionImperfect: wanting leaves pi1-pi4, a1, g3-g6, ff3-ff6, gg1, gg3-gg4. The extant leaves following gathering dd are bound in the following order: ff5, ee1-4, ee7, ff1, ee8, ff2, ee5-6, gg2. These leaves are damaged, with loss of text. Damage to gutter margin of leaves V7-cc2.
Size of leaves273 × 185 mm
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Support material (book)Paper
Provenance
1500 -
1800
PlaceEngland (Geonames ID: 6269131)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1500 - 1800
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Method of acquisitionunknown
Manuscript notesOccasional reading marks (vertical lines, dots) and some underlining are found throughout the text. There are occasional marginal annotations in ink in different English hands, dating between the 16th and the 19th centuries, on leaves b2r-b2v, F1v (the first gathering signed F), s1r, A7v, B6v, N1v, O1r, T6r. Some of the marks are very faint; most are very brief and hard to date.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookThroughout
Extraction of keywordsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
Personal NotesYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1091 -
PlaceSalisbury, England (Geonames ID: 2638664)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1091 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
Documentary Evidence
NoteOwned by Salisbury Cathedral Library by 1817. Contains two bookplates from Salisbury Cathedral Library: the first is the early 19th-century bookplate with the inscription “This book belongs to the library of the Cathedral Church of New Sarum. James Evans, D. D. Librarian. 1817.”; over this is pasted the later 19th-century bookplate with the image of the 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal, and the inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Loose inside: a letter from S.C. Cockerell to unnamed recipient at Salisbury Cathedral, dated Jan. 31, 1899, with information relating to this edition.
Date of evidence1817
Method of acquisitionunknown
Binding note19th-century brown calf over paper boards; blind tooling on boards; spine with four flat raised bands and blind tooling; blind tooling around board edges; blind tooling on turn-ins; text block edges stained red (faded); green endleaves.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureNo
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions287 × 207 × 81 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
Manuscript notesThere are some brief pencil annotations in English in 19th- or 20th-century hands. A list of contents is written in ink on the upper endleaf. Attempts have been made to correct some of the errors in foliation. Notes (20th-century) on the text and the edition are written on the endleaves in pencil.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookThroughout
Historic ShelfmarkA shelfmark is written in ink at head of leaf a2r (the first extant leaf). It is not clear whether this is a previous Salisbury Cathedral shelfmark. (Shelfmark pattern No.: 19)
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2021-04-28 08:44:09