Bod-Inc: J-040
Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Koberger version.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Legenda aurea que alio nomine Lombartica vocitatur historia'.
a2r ‘Prologus'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.
a2r Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos i–xlvii, xlix–lix (sections 1-8 only), lx–lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii–cvi (ending imperfectly), cvii–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxviii, cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clxvii, clxix–clxxxii.
G3r [Additional legends.] ‘Historia Lambardica explicit quam Iacobus de Voragine frater ordinis predicatorum episcopus Ianuensis compilauit. Ipsa tamen quia multorum sanctorum legendas quos hoc nostro tempore varie dioceses venerantur non habet, dignum duximus etiam aliquas hic annectere ne quos dominus Ihesus Christus ob eorum maxima merita miraculis clarere et toti orbe innotescere voluit a nobis silentio pertranseantur.’
G3r [Additional legends.] ‘Historia Lambardica explicit quam Iacobus de Voragine frater ordinis predicatorum episcopus Ianuensis compilauit. Ipsa tamen quia multorum sanctorum legendas quos hoc nostro tempore varie dioceses venerantur non habet, dignum duximus etiam aliquas hic annectere ne quos dominus Ihesus Christus ob eorum maxima merita miraculis clarere et toti orbe innotescere voluit a nobis silentio pertranseantur.’ ed. Graesse, nos clxviii, clxxxiii–clxxxix (part, beginning imperfectly), cxc (with variant incipit), lxxi, cxcvi–ccxii.
K5r [Colophon.]
K5v ‘Registrum'. [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 6 Nov. 1492. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–z A–K6.
References
ISTC: ij00130000
Hain: C 6457;
Goff: Goff J‑130;
BMC: BMC II 435;
Proctor: Pr 2077;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑98; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 52; Rhodes 988; Seyboldt no. 76; Sheppard 1515.
LCN: 14496673
Copies
Copy number: J-040(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century half pigskin over wooden boards, with two clasps and catches lost. On both covers triple fillets form an outer frame, within which is a cresting roll, and a roll showing the Annunciation, Baptism, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, lettered ‘H. P.' [Hans Pfister, see Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel, I 329, no. 1]. Further triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is decorated with the cresting roll. Initials of an owner stamped in gold on the upper cover within the inner rectangle: ‘I I S 1585'.
Size: 321 × 222 × 58 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 203 mm.
Occasional annotations, one dated 1531, extracting key words, as marginal headings. Manuscript index of saints with folio numbers, from Abdon to Franciscus, on the recto of the rear endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.
Two- to eight-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks supplied in red; underlining in red.
Provenance: I. I. S., 1585 (binding, see above). Jugler family (perhaps Georg Jugler (1607-89)). Andreas Seidel (fl. 1672-1706); inscription on a1r: ‘Ex reliquiis bibliothecæ Jugleriana comparavit Andreas Seidel Culmbac. pastor Illschwang. in sup. Palatinatu 1706'. L. M. Koehler; inscription on a1r: ‘Ex bibliotheca L. M. Koehler. Sulzb. Palat.' Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum' in black ink on the recto of the front endleaf. Albert Cohn; Catalogue 159, either no. 326 or 327. Purchased in 1884 from Cohn, 26 Apr., for 12 Marks; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.11.
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