Cy apres sensuyvent les histoyres de la vie des saincts des festes nouvelles na gaires tra[n]slatees de latin en grancois de la lege[n]de doree lan de nostre seigneur mil quatre cens et ung.

Accession number: 
PML 63679
Published: 
Lyon : [Guillaume Le Roy for] p[ar] Bartholomieu Buyer, le vingtiesme iour daoust la[n] mil quatre cens septa[n]te sept [20 August 1477].
Description: 
[134] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Hugh Bullock, Mr. Haliburton Fales II, Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, and Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgan II, 1973. NPM
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r6v: Imprimee p[ar] bartholomieu buyer citoye[n] de lyon sur le rosue veve et corrigee par reverends peres maistre iuliant de lordre de saint augustin [et] maistre jehan bathalier de lordres des jacopis docteurs en theologie du dit lyon le vingtiesme iour daoust la[n] mil quatre cens septa[n]te sept.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1*:119G.
Signatures: a-h⁸; i-q⁸ r⁶: 134 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut initials.
Translated by Julien Macho and Jean Battalier.
Translation of 44 legends added to the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h8 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full red goatskin over boards (27 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Pierre-Lucien Martin. Red goatskin pastedowns with vellum endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Légende des saints nouveaux

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red highlighting on woodcut initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and some flourishing to printed letters on bottom rows of text. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), no. 212, collation statement, April 1967 (rear endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Engelberts-Jammes on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Hugh Bullock, Mr. Haliburton Fales II, Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, and Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgan II, March 1973.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books