Le legende de sancti.

Accession number:

PML 64005

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

Venice : Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), [16 May 1492].

Description:

ccxliii, [1] leaves ; 33.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Mrs. W. Gibson Carey, 1973. NNPM

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf G3r: Finisse le legende de sancti composte per el reuere[n]dissimo padre fratre Iacobo de Voragine del ordine de fratri predicatori arciuescouo de Genoua. Traducte de latino i[n] lingua uulgare p[er] le uenerabile messer don Nicholao de manerbi ueneto del ordine de camaldulense abbate de mo[n]asterio de sancto Mathia de Mura[n]o stampare in Venetia per Matheo di Codecha da Parma. Nel anno dela natiuita del nostro Signor Mcccclxxxxii. A di .xvi. di Mazo. Laus deo. [followed by register and printer's mark]
Printed in Capcasa's type 80
Signatures: a-z & A-F⁸ G⁴: 244 leaves, leaves a1 and G4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Niccolò Malermi.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.6 x 21.5 cm. NNPM
PML copy missing 5 leaves: a1 and G1-4. NNPM

Binding:

Contemporary Italian blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (33.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked preserving portions of original spine. Original plain paper pastedowns with modern plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; darkened edges. 4 clasps, bosses, and corner pieces, missing. NNPM

Variant Title:

Legendario di Sancti

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in Italian, in several hands, sporadically throughout text. Drawing/doodle of a box containing a severed head, leg, hand, and a few other objects (front pastedown). NNPM

Provenance:

Presumably found in Italy by art historian Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933) and bequeathed to his brother, Louis Hopkins Porter (1874-1946), bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), who presented it to Mr. and Mrs. W. Gibson Carey, Mrs. Carey believed this to be the copy looted from Bibilioteca Melzi (Milan) during World War II (see Hroswitha Club meeting minutes, 1973, p. 5, Grolier Club archive; ex-info Kate Ozment, 1/19/2022); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Mrs. W. Gibson (Eleanor Towne) Carey, May 1973. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books