La vie des sanctz en francois imprimee a Paris.

Accession number:

PML 41599

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

Imprimer a Paris : Par Jehan du pre, en lan de nostre seigneur Mil.cccc.lxxxix. le .v. iour de dece[m]bre [5 December 1489].

Description:

[336] leaves ([1], ii-CCCxl, with mistakes) : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 28.5 x 21 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Gift of the Fellows, 1950.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf R10v): A lhonneur et louenge de dieu le pere tour puissant de la glorieuse vierge marie et de toute la court celestielle de paradis a este achevee de imprimer a Paris: ceste presente legende en francois Par Jehan du pre en lan de nostre seigneur Mil.cccc.lxxxix. le .v. iour de dece[m]bre. vielle de sai[n]t Nicolas.
Printed in Du Pré's types 24:102G (text) and 21:132B (headlines and incipit).
Signatures: a⁴; b-g⁸ h¹⁰ i-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-Q⁸ R¹⁰: 336 leaves, leaf a4 (presumably) blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
2 columns, 41 lines (20.6 x 14.5 cm.). Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
176 woodcuts (approximately 68-69 x 62-64 mm), with repeats.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.2 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a4 (blank).

Binding:

18th-century French blind- and gilt-tooled light brown calf over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.

Variant Title:

Légende dorée

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue lombards with red paragraph marks (T- and C-types) and capital strokes. Annotations: Some 15th-/early 16th-century Latin notations in two hands.

Provenance:

Unidentified ownership inscriptions, abraded (leaf a1r, not legible under UV); unidentified embossed armorial ownership stamp: heart-shaped shield with 2 horizontal bands and upside-down Y, surmounted by a cross (leaves h10v, k5v, p4-6, t7-8); Bibliotheque du comte de Lavaur de Sainte-Fortunade, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Arthur Rau (Paris), bookseller; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rau as the gift of the Fellows, May 1950.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books