Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf Aa1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf xx5v: Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute [and] right renommed lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte / worthy of remebraunce to all well dysposed persones / whiche hath be translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre late deed / and fynysshed it at the laste daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre by my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde .M.CCCC.lxxxxv. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the seuenth.
Printed in De Worde's types 2:114G and 5:95G.
Signatures: Aa⁸; a-o⁸ p⁶ q-x⁸ y¹⁰ z aa-tt⁸ vv-xx⁶: 356 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by William Caxton.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.1 x 17.3 cm.
PML copy missing 11 leaves: Aa6, a1, vv2-xx2, xx5-6, replaced in pen facsimile; leaves l2-7, r8, ll7, nn7, vv1 replaced from a shorter copy; leaf Aa1 remargined, including part of title in pen facsimile.
Lyff of the faders
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Bibliographic notes (by Morris?) estimating number of words/line and words in text (front endleaf 2 recto and rear endleaf 1 recto).