Incipit legenda sanctoru[m] aurea que alio nomine dicitur hystoria longobardica.

Accession number:

PML 106

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

Cologne : Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 1481.

Description:

[364] leaves ; 29 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/3v): Incipit legenda sanctoru[m] aurea que alio nomine dicitur hystoria longobardica. Et primo de adventu d[omi]ni.
Colophon (leaf [45]/10r): Explicit hystoria longobardica diligenter impressa ac correcta: cu[m] no[n]nullis sanctor[um] ac sanctar[um] legendis i[n] fine sup[er] additis per me Conradu[m] winters de Homberch Colonie cive[m] Anno d[omi]ni. Mcccclxxxi.
Printed in Winters's types 1:99G (headlines) and 3:168G (text).
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-26⁸ 27¹⁰ 28⁶ 29-37⁸ 38⁶ 39-44⁸ 45¹⁰]: 364 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Royal quarto
For detailed contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19 cm, trimmed.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.

Binding:

18th/19th-century English blind- and gilt-stamped calf over paper boards (29 x 19 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Lombardica historia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, red and blue paragraph marks, red foliation, and yellow capital strokes; illuminated border (Flemish style) on leaf [1]/2r. Annotations: No notations in text. Folio numbers added to tabula. Contemporary and later alpha-numeric and numeric manuscript quire signatures, some near gutter and others at outside of bottom edge, mostly trimmed.

Provenance:

Fletcher Raincock (1769-1840), inscription FR 1829 (3rd fly verso, same inscription in Cambridge UL, Inc.5.B.3.134[1826]); [his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1843--likely sold before sale to:]; unidentified monogram inscription JB 1841 (3rd fly verso); Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh, Lord Downes (1788-1863), armorial blue paper bookplate (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code m/-/- +__ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Monograms (Provenance)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books