The legendary history of the cross : a series of sixty-four woodcuts from a Dutch book published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 ; with an introduction written and illustrated by John Ashton ; preface by S. Baring Gould (1887)

Veldener, Jan, fl 1473-1485, Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298. Legenda aurea, Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491, Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · New York, A. C. Armstrong · leaf 103

An illustration from The legendary history of the cross : a series of sixty-four woodcuts from a Dutch book published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 ; with an introduction written and illustrated by John Ashton ; preface by S. Baring Gould, 1887, leaf 103 — felf is of veryantique form, being even devoid of rays,and is too fmall to go on the head.Charlemagne was crowned with it in774, and Napoleon did not think him-felf King of Italy until he had placedthis precious diadem on his head, in1805. It is kept at Monza, nine milesfrom Milan, in the… … ©iftotp of tit Crofs. xcv indebted to M. Rohault de Fleury forthe illuftration on page xciv., as it feemsto me to be the beft yet pubUfhed. The Evangelifts, although agreeing inthe fpirit of the infcription, vary as to theletter. Says St. Matthew : * This is Jefus theKing of the Jews.„ St. Mark:…

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