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.

Passionael efte dat levent der hylligen to düde: uth dem latino: mit velen nyen hystorien und leren: de beth heer to den mynschen vordunkert und vorborghen sint ghewezen: unde nu up dat nye in dat lycht ghebracht.

Accession number
PML 126085
Creator
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Published
Basel : Adam Petri, Anno M.d.xvii. [1517].
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Summer and winter parts, with separate foliation.
Description
[4], cclxiiii, cclviii leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Provenance
From the library of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
16th-century Netherlandish panel-stamped and blind-rolled dark-brown calf (heavily worn) over wooden boards, with manuscript and printed waste as linings and pastedowns. Front pastedown is a leaf from Decisiones Novae (Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 4 Jan. 1477; ISTC id00108000, see also PML 127095). Rear pastedown is bifolium (leaves cxxviii recto and cxxxi verso) from Alle Epistler oc Evangelia som lesiss alle Søndage (Paris: Badius, 1515; USTC 302635).
Classification
Department