Legenda aurea de sanctis

Item Information

Title:
Legenda aurea de sanctis
Title (alt.):
Legenda aurea siue flores sanctorum
Title (uniform):
Legenda aurea
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Printer:
Huss, Mathias, active 1482-1500
Former owner:
Bullrich, Eduardo J.
Former owner:
Augustinerkloster Ramsau
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Date:
[July 20, 1487]
Format:
Books
Genre:
Woodcuts
Bookplates
Inscriptions
Marginalia
Pigskin bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Chained bindings
Wooden boards
Catches
Incunabula
Incunabula--France
Chancery folios
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
Christian saints--Calendar--Early works to 1800
Church calendar--Early works to 1800
Places:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region) > Lyons
Extent:
[228] leaves : bill. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98q7952
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Lyons] : [Mathias Huss]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Title from a1 recto.
Imprint derived from colophon (C7 verso): Legenda aurea siue flores sanctorum impressa Lugduni per venerabilem viru[m] magistru[m] Mathiam husz. Anno domi[ni] .M.cccclxxxvii. Die vero vicesimo mensis iulii finit feliciter.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.100 no.1 FOLIO with leather bookplate of Eduardo J. Bullrich. Pencil dealer's notes, codes, etc. Extensive early/contemporary Latin and German annotation in red and brown ink throughout. According to BPL Quarterly (April 1955, p. 88), this volume formerly belonged to the monastery of Ramsau, in Bavaria. Purchased from Maggs in March, 1954.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M11241
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J118
Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00118000
Notes (object):
Signatures: a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ A-B⁶ C-D⁸ (all leaves unsigned; D8=blank?)
Chancery folio; printed in double columns, a5 recto: 50 lines plus headline, 204 (217) x 147 mm; types: 160G (title, headlines), 100G (headings), 81G (text); initial spaces with guide letters, woodcut illustrations.
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.100 no.1 FOLIO imperfect: C8-D8 wanting. Rubricated in red throughout; woodcuts hand-colored. Modern pencil foliation in lower right margin of every 25th recto. Leaf dimensions: 279 x 201 mm.
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.100 no.1 FOLIO bound with a contemporary manuscript excerpting Hugh de Fouilloy's De duodecim abusionibus claustri and other texts. Cataloged separately as Q.403.100 no.2 FOLIO.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.100 no.1 FOLIO bound in contemporary South German blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Tooling matches that of Einbanddatenbank (EBDB) workshop w003742. On the upper cover, a central panel under a single floral roll, with ogival diapering of leafy stems, the interstices each with a large vegetal fleuron, an eagle stamp in each lower corner and a rhombic fleuron stamp in the middle. In the upper-right of the outermost border, a man-in-the-moon; in the upper-left, the sun; stag stamps in the lower corners, the rest filled with "Maria" banderoles. The middle border surrounds the central panel on three sides with round "Agnus Dei" tools. The lower cover with a similar design. Paper label on upper cover. Spine repaired, with manuscript labels faded. Hole from a bookchain staple on lower cover. Brass catch plates on upper cover; clasp anchors remain, with clasps lost.
Identifier:
06_01_016851a
Call #:
RARE BKS Q.403.100 no.1 FOLIO
Barcode:
39999091849297