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Page 279 - Here begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea That is to saye in | Englysse the golden legende. For lyke as passeth golde valewe all other metal- | lys. So thys legende excelleth all other bookes. Here the same woodcut as had appeared on fol. 1. On the reverse:
Page 267 - of the sayingis of these philosopheres .:. Fol. 73a: h Ere endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis | of the philosophres enprynted, by me william | Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M. | CCCC. Lxxvij. Whiche book is late translated out of | Frenshe into englyssh. by the Noble and puissant lord
Page 187 - FROISSART. (Vol. I) Fol la, title: Le premier volume | de froissart | Des croniques de France. Dangleterre. Descoce. Despaigne. De bretaigne. De gascongne. De flan | dres. Et lieux circunuoisins. Foil. 2-7 contain the Table. Fol. 8 has the Register on the obverse and is blank on
Page 298 - MORIENDI: FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE BLOCK BOOK THE ARS MORIENDI (editio princeps, circa 1450), a reproduction of the copy in the British Museum, edited by WH Rylands ; with an introduction by G. BULLEN, Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum, 4to. 24
Page 277 - (foliated CCC.xix) : . . Thus endeth the thirde and fourthe boke of sir lohn Fro- | issart . . Fourth line from bottom: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Rycharde Pynson, | printer to the kynges moost noble grace. And ended the last | day of August : the yere of our lorde god. MDxxv.
Page 268 - Explicit Tractatus Galfrydi Chaucer de | Penitencia vt dicitur pro fabula Rectoris. Fol. 3715 : [N]0w pray I to hem alle that herkene this litil tretyse | or rede, that yf ther be ony thing that liketh hem, that | therof they thanke our lord . . Wherfore I beseke you mekely . . that ye for me praye that crist
Page 286 - teris of our catholik faith and religioun, | quhilk na gud christin man or woman | suld misknaw : set furth be ye maist reue- | rend father in God lohne Aschbischop | of sanct Androus Legatnait and
Page 273 - Henry the eyght. Imprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of | the sonne by wynkyn de worde. On the reverse
Page 277 - (foliated CCC.xxii), column 2 : . . Imprinted at London in Fletestrete | by Richarde Pynson printer to the kynges no | ble grace. And ended the .xxviii. day of lanua | ry : the yere of our lorde .MDxxiii. | Cum priuilegio a rege indulto. On the reverse the arms of Lord
Page 267 - of the gentle Addisonian kind. He remarks that Lord Rivers had omitted some of the sharp sayings of Socrates against women, and therefore proceeds to supply the deficiency in his own language. He says " I am not in certayn wheder it was in my lordis copye or not. or ellis