Jerome (Saint) [translated into English by William Caxton]
[Vitas Patrum]. Here foloweth the right devoute moche lowable recomendable lyff of the olde Auncyent holy faders hermytes late translated out of latyn into French and dylygently corrected in the cyte of Lyon, ye yere of our Lord MCCCClxxxvi upon that whiche hath been wryten and also translated out of Greke in to Latyn by the blessyd & holy saynt, Saint Jerome .....
[Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 ... tenth year of Henry VII [up to 21st August], folio in eights, [7], 93, 93-334 leaves (numbered in Roman numerals with manuscript numbers adjacent), printed double column, woodcut illustrations, lacking leaf 2A1 (title page) and leaves 335-347 (2T8-2X6), large holes running through leaves 327 to 334, now filled but with significant loss of text, partial loss of last line on J5, now repaired with manuscript replacement of several words, several lines redacted, new margins to 2A2, other marginal repairs and filled worm tracks, a little staining but pages generally clean (possibly washed), Stonyhurst College stamps, manuscript notes to blank before first leaf, re-backed nineteenth century calf (retaining most of backstrip)
Accompanied by facsimiles of the missing and damaged leaves (printed single-sided), bound in marbled paper boards with leather spine label.
[Duff 235, ESTC S109796]
[Provenance: ex-Stonyhurst College, sold by Sotheby's in 2003 to a London dealer, purchased by David Stather the same year and subsequently restored by the conservator of York Minster Library].