Title from incipit (leaf b1r): Sacri eloquii preconis perlepidi doctoris eximii Jacobi de Voragine ordi[ni]s predicatoru[m] opus sermonum de sanctis per anni circulum feliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf r7v): Collegit in genio opus sermonum de sanctis alphabetico ordine registratum ex alto altissimus frater Jacob[us] de Voragine ordinis predicatorum sacre theologie professor eximius: ... Q[ui]d quidem infinita dei clementia arte impressoria effigiatum atq[ue] consu[m]matu[m] est feliciter Anno salutis .1484. tercio nonas nove[m]bris.
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G (headings, headlines) and 6:78/79G (text).
Assigned to Bologna by Voulliéme, and to Southern Germany by V. Scholderer (Gb Jb 1929, pp.127-33, reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966) pp.108-12; cf. BMC VI xxxvi, note). P. Amelung, Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, Dritte Folge 4 (1969) pp.145-51, assigns to Dinckmut (ISTC).
Collation: [a⁴]; b-p⁸ q⁶ r⁸: 130 leaves, leaf r8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and L-brackets on folio numbers; "F R R D" in red lombards (top margin, leaf a2r). Annotations: Minimal marginal notations, 16th century. A few German and Latin inscriptions, 16th/17th century (a1r and r8v).