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 36

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 36 — Biftiop of Jerufalem, concerning thebuilding of a fplendid church upon Mount Calvary, and St.Helena, although fhe was then 79 years of age, undertook tofee it carried out. It was then that the reputed Invention of the Crofs, together■with the nails, took place, and /he foon afterwards died, butthe… … to be borne tofore hym and his hooft /And after fmote in the hooft of hisenemyes / and flewe and chaced greteplente / After thys he dyd doo^ calle thebyffhoppes of the ydoUes /and demaundedthem to what god the fygne of the crofleapperteyned. And whan they coude notanfwere / fome criften men that…

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