Legenda s[an]ctor[um].

Accession number:

PML 134

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [not after 1475]

Description:

[2], i-ccclxxxxvii, [1] (with mistakes) : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Incipit p[ro]logus sup[er] legenda s[an]ctor[um] qua[m] [com]pilatvit f[rate]r jacob[us] nat[i]o[n]e Ianue[nsis] ord[in]is fr[atre]m p[rae]dictor[um].
Explicit (leaf [41]/8r): Hystoria lombardica sanctor[um] finit feliciter.
Printed in Zainer's types 2:118G (incipit) and 4:95R (text).
Collation: [1²; 2-40¹⁰ 41⁸]: 400 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Two lines skipped during printing and added in manuscript in printer's shop (leaf [13]/1v). Same correction in same hand in München BSB and PML copies.
Bearer type on leaf [37]/7.
163 woodcuts from 138 blocks (with repeats).
A copy at München BSB has a MS. date of 1475.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21.1 cm, témoin: leaf [27]/6: 31 x 21.2 cm. NPM
PML copy with leaves [2]/3-8 from another copy, rubricated; leaves [1]/1-2, [2]/1-2, [2]/9-10, and [40]/10 remounted.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Johann Schüssler in Augsburg (EBDB w001512 and Kyriss 90, a.k.a., Wundervogel or Fuchsvogel-Meister I); rebacked, leather torn away from parts of rear board. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, rear pastedown is proof sheet from Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica ([Augsburg]: Zainer, 1473), ip00458000, f. 8r showing earlier setting of the page. 2 clasps, wanting, with foliate catch plates.

Variant Title:

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Leaves [2]/3-8 only rubricated with red wash on woodcut and woodcut initials, captial strokes and underlining. Annotations: Occasional marginal notations, with some cross-referencing between legends, and textual corrections.

Provenance:

Johannes Gebhart, given by Leonhard Widman of Holzkirchen (cf. Munich UB, 2 Cod. ms. 118, which Widman donated to Weyarn Abbey, 1496), inscription: "Hic liber est Joh[ann]is gebhart et dono datus a venerabili viri et d[omi]no Leondhard widma[n] de holtzkirchen cu[ius] ani[m]a cu[m] [christ]o req[u]escat in pace etc." (rear pastedown), also a marginal note by Gebhart on St. Christopher (leaf [20]/7r); inscription, abraded, 1502 (rear pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and notes on Zainer's woodcuts and type (tipped-in to front fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code em/-/- (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Manuscript corrections (Printing)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Printed waste (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books