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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Title(s):
Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.
Additional Title(s):
Legenda aurea. German
Published/Created:
[Augsburg] : [Johannes Bämler], [1475]
Physical Description:
[420] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0137
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00157000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J157
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M11352
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9970*
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4300
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0137: Imperfect: 24 non-consecutive leaves. Woodcuts are hand-colored. With leaf numbers added in graphite, in a much later hand. Includes: [1] incipit page, with woodcut of St. Ambrosius; [2] f. 72, St. Nereus, St. Achilleus; [3] f. 356, St. Maria; [4] f. 261, St. Laurentius; [5] f. 328, St. Domenico; [6] f. 200, St. Anna; [7] f. 392, St. Lamprecht; [8] f. 343, St. Lupus; [9] f. 335, St. Savina; [10] f. 69, St. Alexander; [11] f. 223, St. Cipriano; [12] St. Euphemia, [13] f. 246, St. Oswald; [14] f. 356, St. Regina; [15] f. 326, St. Augustinus; [16] f. 341, St. Antonius; [17] f. 318, St. Thimoteus; [18] f. 145, St. Simafrodosa; [19] f. 58, St. Sigismundo; [20] f. 334, St. Sabina; [21] f. 342, St. Serapia; [22] f. 311, St. Bernhart; [23] f. 401, St. Tecla; [24] f 208 / St. Niclaus. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Christian saints.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Biographies.
Early works.
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Hand coloring.
Contributors:
Bämler, Johann, approximately 1430–1503, printer.
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