Legende sanctoru[m].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Contributor:

Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.

Nicolaus, von Frankfurt, active 1473-1516, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Legenda aurea

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Christian saints.

Christian saints--Biography.

Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800.

Christian saints--Legends.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Incunabula.

Biographies.

Legends.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, 274, that is, 276 leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Legendae sanctorum

Incipit of text (leaf a1r): Reuerendissimi fr[atr]is Iacobi de Voragine Senue[n]sis Archep[iscop]i Ordinis Predicatorum sanctorum ac festoru[m] per totu[m] annum Liber incipit

Fingerprint:

3.i. a-e: orna risa (3) 1500 (T)

Place of Publication:

In alma Venetia[rum] vrbe : Mandato impensa[que] ... Nicolai de Franchphordia : Per Bonetum Locatellum ..., [20 June 1500]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (pi1r).

Imprint from colophon: In alma Venetia[rum] vrbe. Mandato impensa[que] probatissimi viri d[omi]ni Nicolai de Franchphordia. Per Bonetum Locatellum presbite[rum]. A virginali partu saluberrimo [qui]ngentesimo supra Millesimu[m]. xij. kalenda[rum] Iuliarum.

Median quarto, printed in double columns. Leaf a1v: 44 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 161 (168) x 116 mm.; col. width: 55 mm. Woodcut initials. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Register on leaf pi2v.

Signatures: pi² a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-G⁸ H¹².

Errors in foliation: leaves 251, 253 and 276 numbered 257, 259 and 274, respectively.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 217 x 162 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: some woodcut initials hand-colored in yellow; some yellow capital and paragraph mark strokes.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text; a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on title leaf.

Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in 1960 from Parker's (Oxford), Cat. 157, no. 115.

Penn Libraries copy bound in early limp parchment with remains of two leather thongs; ms. title on front cover; three raised bands on spine; single headbands; portion of an early parchment ms. leaf written in a small Gothic bookhand with visible ruling used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves H1 and H12 reinforced at inner margin.

Cited in:

Goff J-137

GW M11338

BSB-Ink. I-104

IGI 5036

ISTC ij00137000

OCLC:

249356137