Heiligen leben.

Accession number: 
PML 126006
Author: 
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Published: 
Augsburg : Johann Schönsperger, 18 August 1489.
Description: 
[314] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes: 

Collation: [1]²; A-PP⁸: 314 leaves, leaves PP6-7 blank.
Colophon (leaf PP6v): Hÿe enndet sich das passionale der heyligen leben das Wÿntterteÿle. Das hat gedrucket Hanns Schönsperger zů Augspurg. Un[nd] vollenndet am afftermäntag od[er] erchtag vor sant Mangen des heiligen bischoffs tag. Do man zelet nach cristi unsers lieben herren geburd Vierzehen hundert und im Neünundachczigisten jare.
Incipit (leaf A1r): Hie hebt sich an ein lobeliches unnd untzliches bůch genant das passional. D[em] ist der heyligen leben in dem winterteil...
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy is Winterteil only, missing 8 leaves: A1-8.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 19.8 cm
Printed in Schönsperger's type 1:120G.
The parts are dated: I) 18 Aug. 1489; II) 29 May 1489.
Title from half-title page (leaf A1r): Hye hebt sich an d[em] wynterteyl der heiligen leben...
Woodcuts.

Binding: 
Modern (18th/19th century?) rebinding of wooden boards (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports with inlaid blind-stamped calf panels from the Augsburg workshop of the Jagd-Rolle V (EBDB w002144/Kyriss 81, a.k.a. Jagd am Zaun, active circa 1474-1515). 2 catches, new straps. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Leben der Heiligen: Winterteil und Sommerteil

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Woodcuts are hand colored. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Madame D., sale at Giraud Badin (Paris), 12-14 May 1930, no. 132, sold for 2900 francs; Robert Scholtz, booklabel (front pastedown); Eduardo J. Bullrich, booklabel (front pastedown), inherited by D.L. Alvear; his sale, Sotheby's, 17 Mar. 1952; Clark Stillman (1907-1995); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
Calf bindings (Binding)
Inlays (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Century: 
15th century
Department: 
Printed Books