[Legendario di Sancti]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Legendario di Sancti]
Other titles: Legenda aurea; Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia; Legenda sanctorum; Lombardica hystoria; Lombardica historia; Legenda Lombardica; Legendario di Sancti; Le legende de tutti li sancti et le sancte
Classmark: BC Incunabula/VOR
Creator(s): Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
Additional creator(s): Malermi, Niccolò (1422-) (Translator); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480) (Printer); Auguis, Pierre René (1786-1846) (Binder); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Malermi, Niccolò; Jenson, Nicolas; Auguis, Pierre René; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: impresse per maestro Nicolo ienson franzose regnante Sixto quarto pontefice maximo: & Pietro mozenigo inclyto duce de Venetia; Nicolaus Jenson
Publication city: [Venice]
Date(s): [between 1 July 1475 and 23 February 1476]
Language: Italian
Size and medium: [318] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106456
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008155659705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-p¹⁰ q⁸+1 r-v¹⁰ x⁸ y-z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B⁸+1 C-D¹⁰ E-I⁸ K¹²].
Place and printer from colophon.
Colophon on on [K12r] reads: A laude de Dio finisse le lege[n]de de tutti li sancti & le sancte dalla romana sedia acceptati & honorati impresse per maestro Nicolo ienson franzose regnante Sixto quarto pontefice maximo: & Pietro mozenigo inclyto duce de Venetia.
Date of printing supplied from ISTC.
The prologue is dated 1 July 1475 and the colophon states that the book was print in the reign of Doge Pietro Mocenigo, who died on 23 February 1476.
Translated by Niccolo Malermi.
Printed in two columns with 51 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00174000.
Indexed in: Goff J174; C 6497; Pell(V) 131; Pell Ms 6541 (6514); CIBN J-116; Hillard 1123; Voull(B) 3664; IGI 5037; Oates 1637; Pr 4094A; Sheppard 3265.
Features
Notes in Italian in black ink manuscript on the verso of the second front flyleaf giving details of the edition.
Leaves 4-318 have been numbered 1-315 in black ink manuscript at the top centre of rectos.
The first major initial of the prologue has been supplied and decorated in red.
The first major initial of the text has been supplied and decorated in blue.
Other major initials supplied in red.
The margins of this copy have been severely cropped and the leaf edges cut into. Several leaves have been mended and where the text has been lost it has been written in by hand in black ink manuscript.
The first 40 leaves are oil-stained.
This copy is missing the first leaf.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of half red goatskin and red, brown and black marbled paper over pasteboard. A note in French on the recto of the first front flyleaf indicates that the book was rebound by Pierre René Auguis. The spine has five raised bands each gold-tooled with two fillets with fleurons at either end. To either side of each raised band is a gold-tooled single fillet and gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Légende italienne. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in pink, blue, brown and cream. Size: 316x 247mm. Leaf size: 303 x 220mm.
Provenance
A note in French on the recto of the first front flyleaf in black ink manuscript dated 14 August 1845 indicates that the book was rebound by M. Auguis, deputy conservator of the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris.
Pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper is a cutting from a French sale catalogue.
Coloured 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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