Accession number
PML 605
Creator
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Object title
Legenda aurea de sanctis.
Published
Impressa Lugduni : per Mathiam husz, Anno domini .M.cccclxxxvii die verovicesimo mensis iulii [20 July 1487].
Description
[228] leaves : illustratsion (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf C7v: Legenda aurea sive flores sanctorum impressa Lugduni per venerabilem viru[m] magistru[m] Mathiam husz. Anno dom[in]i .M.cccclxxxvii. Die verovicesimo mensis iulii finit feliciter.
Printer's mark, leaf D8r.
Printed in Huss's types 19:81G, 1:106G, and 2:160G (180G in BMC).
Signatures: a-z [et] [con]⁸ A-B⁶ C-D⁸: 228 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
180 woodcuts from 120 woodblocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and D8, replaced in facsimile.
Imprint from colophon, leaf C7v: Legenda aurea sive flores sanctorum impressa Lugduni per venerabilem viru[m] magistru[m] Mathiam husz. Anno dom[in]i .M.cccclxxxvii. Die verovicesimo mensis iulii finit feliciter.
Printer's mark, leaf D8r.
Printed in Huss's types 19:81G, 1:106G, and 2:160G (180G in BMC).
Signatures: a-z [et] [con]⁸ A-B⁶ C-D⁸: 228 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
180 woodcuts from 120 woodblocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and D8, replaced in facsimile.
Binding
Modern full green goatskin over heavy paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell (front endleaf 3 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896 and then sold off the duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and price code: e/wm/- +___ (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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