Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia
Other titles: Legenda aurea
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1495/JAC
Creator(s): Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
Additional creator(s): Wolff, Nicolaus (1494-1515) (Printer); Evelyn-White, Hugh G (1884-1924) (Donor)
Related people: Wolff, Nicolaus; Evelyn-White, Hugh G
Publisher: [Nicolaus Wolf]; [Nicolaus Wolf]
Publication city: [Lyon]
Date(s): Anno domini M.ccccxcv. die vero. v. ianuarij. [5 January 1495]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [12], CCXLVII, [1] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35756
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007633809705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: aa⁸ bb⁴ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-F⁸
Date of publication from colophon.
Colophon on F7v reads: Finit aurea legenda sanctorum que lombardica hystoria nominatur. compilata per fratrem Jacobum de Voragine natione Ianuensis ordinis fratrum predicato[rum] Necnon cum quibusdam aliis legendis noviter superadditis Anno domini M.ccccxcv. die vero. v. ianuarij.
Place of publication and printer from ISTC.
Title from ISTC.
Begins (a1r): Incipit legenda sanctorum que lombardica nominatum historia... [etc.].
Leaves LII, LXXII, XCVI, CXLVIII, CL, CCXXIII, CCXXVIII, CCXXX are wrongly numbered LI, LXX, XCXI, CL, CLII, CCXXI, CCXXVI, CCXXVIII respectively.
The first 12 leaves comprise the index or tabula.
Printed in two columns with 50 lines to a full column.
Printed headlines.
Printed foliation in Roman numerals at the top right of rectos.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The final leaf F8 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00131800.
Indexed in: Copinger, no. 6465.
Features
Written in black ink manuscript at the top left of the verso of the first front flyleaf is a date: 1776.
The title of the work and the date have been written in black ink manuscript on the verso of the first front flyleaf in imitation gothic script.
Occasional marginal annotations in black in manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, slightly cropped.
The major initials on aa2r and a1r have been supplied and decorated in blue and red.
Other major intials supplied alternately in red and blue throughout.
Paragraph markers supplied alternately in blue and red.
Leaves IIII and VI are misplaced and VI is wrongly numbered V. Leaves. CXLIII and CXXXVIII, CLXX and CLXXVI, CLVIII-CLVI are misplaced.
A small hole has been made by fire in leaf XLV and leaf XLVI has been scorched.
This copy is missing the title page and the corresponding leaf in the index or tabula, i.e. that containing part of the letter P, the whole of the letter Q and part of the letter R.
Missing the final blank leaf.
Bindings
Binding of brown calf over pasteboard, rebacked. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a frame of double fillets with a scalloped design at the joint with the spine and small tools in each corner. The board edges are gold-tooled, now much worn. The modern spine of brown calf has five raised bands. The author's name (mispelled Jacobus de Voraigne), title of the work and the date of publication are gold-tooled on the spine. Written in black ink manuscript on the fore-edge is the letter X. Size: 198 x 149mm. Leaf size: 190 x 130mm.
Provenance
A label on the front pastedown records the presentation of the book to the Library of the University of Leeds in October 1922 by H.G. Evelyn White.
Pencil manuscript accession number 7738 on the verso of the first front flyleaf. Date of accession to the Library of the University of Leeds can be identified as 20 October 1922.
Access and usage
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