Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Heiligen leben.

Accession number
PML 126006
Creator
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Object title

Heiligen leben.

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
Century
Department