Legenda Sanctorum - The Proper Lessons for Saints' Days According to the Use of Exeter
Book Description
                        In three parts. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering to the spine. Still a good and sound binding with some mottling/spotting to boards, slight bumping and scuffing to corners, scuffing and minor loss to tips of the spine and split to top & bottom edge of the spine, with a little movement to the upper board. Decorative pre title page to all 3 parts, facsimile of first page, tissue guarded full page colour plates, black & white illustrations and title page to parts 1 and 2 (Fasciculus I & II). Light foxing to first and last few pages but overall with clean and bright pages with sporadic light marks to a few pages. 'The Editor has endevoured, by producing the first part of the "Legenda Sanctorum" with abbreviations, a facsimile of the first page, and a cover illustrative of the literal decoration of the MSS., as well as the coloured list of  saints' days as they occur in their proper order, to convey some idea of the character and condition, no less than the peculiarities, of these massive volumes'. Legenda Sanctorum - The Proper Lessons for Saints' Days According to the Use of Exeter; with the Common of Saints; the Lessons for the Commemorations of the Apostles Peter and Paul; and Certain Lessons Read Only in the Church of Exeter. Compiled by John de Grandisson, Bishop, 1327. Vol. II. - Part III. Fasciculus I. - December. January. Edited by Herbert Edward Reynolds, M.A., Priest Vicar and Librarian of Exeter Cathedral/ Vol II. - Part III. Fasciculus II. February. March. April. May. June. From the Feast of S. Brigid to the Feast of S. Boniface inclusive.
                    
                                    
                        Author
                        Compiled by John de Grandisson; Edited by Herbert Edward Reynolds
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1880
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Cloth
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        Elliot Stock, London
                    
                    
                                        
                        Illustrator
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                        Condition
                        Good
                    
                    
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