La legende doree en francoys.

Accession number:

PML 602

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

Imprimee a Lyon : par maistre Mathieu hus, [26 October 1484]

Description:

[272] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L6v: Cy finist la vie des sanctz dicte Legende doree [et] aussi des sainctz nouveaulx. extraicte et translatee de latin en francoys au plus pres du latin selon le vray sens de la lectre [com]me il peut apparoir a ceulx qui diligemment regarderont [et] entenderont le latin. Imprimee a Lyon par maistre Mathieu hus. Lan de grace mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et quatre. Le .xxvi. iour doctobre.
Printed in Huss's types 2:119G (headlines) and 6:88G (text).
Signatures: a-L⁸: 272 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 columns, 48 lines (20.9 x 14.6 cm.). Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
Woodcuts.
La table du nombre des feuilles et lorde de ceste legende des sainctz, leaves L7v-8r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: L8, replaced in facsimile. Outer margins repaired on leaves at end.

Binding:

Modern full black goatskin over boards (29.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges. Previous binding is 19th-century blind-tooled brown morocco by Gruel, in box with book.

Variant Title:

Lombardica historia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French(?) rubrication, red lombards, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown of previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 3a, 19/3/98 and price code: wmm/-/- (front pastedown of previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books