Legendario de sancti vulgar storiado.

Accession number: 
PML 371
Author: 
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Published: 
Stampate in Venetia : per Bartholomeo di Zani da Portese , M.cccclxxxxix adi .v. di Decembre [5 December 1499].
Description: 
240 leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Incipit (leaf a2r): Incomincia el libro intitulato legendario di sancti composto per el reverendissimo padre frate Jacobo de Voragine de lordine de predictori Archiepiscopo de Genoua.
Imprint from colophon (leaf D8r): Finisse le legende de sancti Composte per el reverendissimo padre frate Jacobo de Voragine del ordine de frati predicatori arciuescouo de Genoua. Traducte de latino in lingua vulgare per el venerabile messer dom Nicolao de Manerbi veneto del ordine de Camaldule[n]se Abbate del monasterio de sacto Mathia de Murano stampate in Venetia per Bartholomeo di Zani da Portese Nel .M.cccclxxxxix adi .v. di Decembre.
Printed in Zanis's types 1:105R and 2:80R.
Signatures: a-z [et] [con] [rum] A-D⁸: 240 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Register after colophon.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.1 x 21.5 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
Modern gilt-tooled black goatskin over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Lombardica historia

Provenance: 
[Previously bound with Vita di sancti padri (PML 372)] Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 3905, to Dobell for £122 but returned as defective, 2nd sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1898, lot 169 to Pickering for £99; [works separated by Pickering or Bennett]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 31a, 13/12/98 and price code (for rebinding?): s/s/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Retrospective bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books