[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia]
Other titles: Legenda aurea; Lombardica historia; Lombardica hystoria; Sanctorum et festorum per totam annum liber; Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia; Legenda sanctorum; Legenda Lombardica
Classmark: BC Incunabula/VOR
Creator(s): Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
Additional creator(s): Scotto, Ottaviano (1498) (Publisher); Locatelli, Boneto (1486-1523) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Scotto, Ottaviano; Locatelli, Boneto; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus]; [Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus]
Publication city: Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): tertio nonas nouembris.1488. [3 November 1488]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [1], CLVI leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106449
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008155239705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*]² a-t⁸ u⁴.
Place and date of publication from colophon.
Colophon on u4r reads: Venetijs.tertio nonas nouembris.1488.
The format is quarto (recorded by Goff and others as folio).
Incorrectly entered as Sermones de sanctis by Goff (J191) and others. The title is given in the book as "Sanctorum et festorum per totum annum liber" - incipit (leaf a1r).
Printed in two columns with 60 lines to a full column.
Foliation printed in Roman numerals at the top right of rectos.
Printed headlines.
Table on leaves [*2r] and [*2v] giving details of feast days and saints.
Initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters.
Printer's mark of Octavianus Scotus and Bonetus Locatellus on leaf u4r with the monogram OSM.
The first leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00120500.
Indexed in: Goff J120a; CR 6552 = 6451; Pell(V) 44 = 146; Pell Ms 6501 (6477); CIBN J-93; Polain(B) 2201; IGI 5058; IBE 3098 = IBE 3114; Madsen 2188; Walsh 2272; Oates 1951; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 984; BSB-Ink I-93.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations and notabilia in black ink manuscript.
Some water damage and foxing.
This copy is missing the first blank leaf.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. Written directly onto the smooth spine in black ink manuscript are the words: Obras de Jacob de Voragine. The place and date are stamped in black at the base of the spine: Venice 1488. In the middle of the spine is the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. There is indistinct writing in ink manuscript at the top of the upper cover. Size: 240 x 180mm. Leaf size: 231 x168mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the base of leaf [*2r], mostly indistinct but possibly: [...] q[uo]d pararus etat [...] salvandis.
Inscription in Spanish in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, at the base of leaf u4r, indistinct but for the date: 1585.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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