Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

Accession number:

PML 21862

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1481 'Legenda aurea'], 1481.

Description:

[16], ccclxix, [1] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.

Notes:

Title derived from incipit (leaf [3]/1r): "Incipit lege[n]da santcoru[m] que lombardica nominatur historia..."
Colophon (leaf [48]/7v): "Lombardica historia explicit. Anno d[omi]ni .M.ccclxxxi."
Printed in types 1:180G (headings), 2:108G (headings), and 3:97G (text) attributed to the eponymous printer of the 1481 Legenda aurea.
Collation: [1-2⁸; 3¹⁰ 4-48⁸]: 386 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [48]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Register on leaves [1]/2r-[2]/8v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 21 cm.

Binding:

Modern half brown goatskin with cloth sides over wooden boards (31 x 22 cm.). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges stained yellow.

Variant Title:

Lombardica historia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards. Annotations: Augustinian inscription from Chiemsee (leaf [1]/1r): "S. Augu: Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam/ Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi;" the Legenda states that these are the verses Augustine had written on his own table. Sporadic contemporary/16th-century marginal annotations.

Provenance:

Chiemsee (Bavaria), Herrenchiemsee, Augustinian canons, inscription: "Coenobij Chiemensis" (leaf [1]/2r) with title: "LEGENDA, S. LOM" and shelf mark: "6 F" (fore-edge); unidentified inscripton: "Joh[annes] Stam[???]" (leaf [4]/1r); Munich, Court Library, duplicate inscription (leaf [1]/1v); Berlin, Royal Library, stamps (leaves [1]/1r and [1]/2r); Royal Library duplicate sale, 1851; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1934), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1922.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Shelf marks (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books