Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Title:

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

Alternate Title(s):

Lombardica historia

Published / Created:

[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [not after 1475]

Physical Description:

ccclxxxxvij, [3] leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0061
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BEIN: Imperfect: second leaf of table of contents wanting; supplied in facsimile; first leaf slightly mutilated. (1981 +35)

Semi-gothic type (Proctor 1559); 44 lines.

Without signature marks.

First Latin edition with woodcuts printed in Germany.

Illustrations: 163 small woodcuts including numerous repeats.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00084000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J84

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6387

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M11168

Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (3. Aufl.), 4326

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0061: Imperfect: comprises seven non-consecutive leaves, each with a hand-colored woodcut: [1] leaf v, with woodcut of Saint Andreas; [2] xliii, Saint Remigius; [3] lxix, the presentation in the temple; [4] lv, Saint Vincent; [5] lx, Saint Paul; [6] lxi, Saint Julian; [7] liiii, Saint Basil. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Saints. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions) | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Zainer, Günther, -1478, printer.