Author: Edmund Hatfield
Title: The Legend of Saint Ursula and the Virgin Martyrs of Cologne
Description: London , John Camden Hotten, 1869. Cloth. A Victorian retelling of the legend of Saint Ursula. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and engraved borders to each page. Ursula's legend, probably unhistorical, is that she was a princess who, at the request of her father King Dionotus of Dumnonia in south-west Britain, set sail to join her future husband, the pagan governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica, along with 11,000 virginal handmaidens. After a miraculous storm brought them over the sea in a single day to a Gaulish port, Ursula declared that before her marriage she would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. She headed for Rome with her followers and persuaded the pope, Cyriacus (unknown in the pontifical records), and Sulpicius, bishop of Ravenna, to join them. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns, all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre. In a decorative red cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, sound, though with some dampstaining and wear to the extremities. Splitting to the backstrip and front joint. Hinges are strained. Institutional bookplate to front pastedown. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of foxing. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: Victorian Illustrated St Ursula Christianity Illustrated None


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