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 27

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 27 — rfe with his wife. There is a Talmudical tradition that God fhowed thefuture to Adam (Avoth dRab. Nathan, chap. 31): TheHoly One—bleffed be He !—fliewed unto Adam each genera-tion, and its preachers, its guardians, its leaders, its prophets, itsheroes, its finners, and its faints, faying, In fuch… … Oi tl)pnucuc2on of ttplpcroffe / ant) firft of tl)gs ^i^o^teJuuencton ^iaotp of t\)t Crof0. XXI whan he fhold dye / it is faid but ot noneaudtoryte / that he fente Seth his fone into paradys for to fetch the oyle of mercy/ where he receyuyde certayn graynes ofthe fruyt of the tree of mercy by…

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