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Jacobus de Voragine

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [French] La légende dorée (ed. Jean Battalier).

 

Analysis of Content

[*1r] [Title-page.]

[*2r] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[M]onseigneur saint Jherosme dit ceste auctorite, “Fais tousiours aulcune . . .’ et oyront lire amen

[*2r] ‘Prologus'. [Translated by Jean de Vignay.] Following ed. Graesse, 1-2. The translator is identified in the preface.

a1r Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. [Edited by Jean Battalier. Translated by Jean de Vignay.] Following ed. Graesse, nos i–xiv (ending imperfectly), xv–xxvi (with additional section on the name), xxvii–xliii (with additional section on the name), xliv–xlvii, xlix–li, liii–lx (with additional section on the name), lxi–lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii–lxxxiv (with additional section on the name), lxxxvi, lxxxv, lxxxvii–lxxxviii (with additional section on the name), lxxxix–xcii (with additional section on the name), xciii–xciv, xcvi, xcv, xcvii–civ (with additional section on the name), cv–cvi (with additional section on the name, and ending imperfectly), cvii–cxvii (without the section on the name), cxviii–cxxv, cxxvi–cxxxix (all with additional sections on the name), cxxx–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxvi (all with additional sections on the name), cxxxvii–cxxxviii (with additional section on the name), cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii (with additional section on the name), cxl–cxliv (with additional section on the name), cxlv–cxlvii, cxlviii–cliv (all with additional sections on the name), clv–clvii (with additional section on the name), clviii, clix–clx (both with additional sections on the name), clxi–clxv (with additional section on the name), clxvi–clxvii (with additional section on the name), clxviii–clxxi (with additional section on the name), clxxii–clxxiii (with additional section on the name), clxxiv–clxxv (with additional section on the name), clxxvi–clxxxii. On the textual tradition of the Lyons editions in general see Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, ‘Etude autour d'une Légende dorée (Lyon, 1476)', Travaux de linguistique et de litterature, 24/1 (1986), 257-94, at 278-4, with a stemma provided on 293. For Battalier and de Vignay see Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, ‘La Contribution de J. Battalier à la traduction française de Jean de Vignay de la Legenda aurea’, Legenda aurea. Sept siècles de diffusion. Actes du colloque international sur la ‘Legenda aurea': texte latin et branches vernaculaires, ed. Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, Cahiers d'études médiévales: cahier spécial, 2 (Montreal and Paris, 1986), 183-96.

P3r ‘Legende de monseigneur sainct Eloy'. Incipit: ‘[S]ainct Eloy fut ne ou territoyre de Limoges . . .’ fussent creus au tombel

P4v ‘Legende de la concepcion de la benoite vierge Marie'. Incipit: ‘[L]a concepcion de la glorieuse vierge Marie fut trouuee Hierosme en sa jeunesse dedens ung liure . . .’ feste de la concepcion

P6r ‘Legende de sainct Guillaume archeuesque de Bourges'. Incipit: ‘[S]aint Guillaume fut actrait de noble lignee. En son enfance . . .’ royaulme de paradis. Amen

P6v ‘Legende de saint Thomas d'Acquin'. Incipit: ‘[S]aint Thomas d'Acquin de lordre des freres precheurs fut tressouuerain docteur . . .’ nous soyent aidantes

P8r ‘Legende de saint Yues'. Incipit: ‘[S]ainct Yues fut ne en Bretaigne la petite ou dyocese . . .’ les siecles des siecles

Q2v [Additional legends.] Following ed. Graesse, nos ccxiii, ccii, both with variations and different endings.

Q6v ‘Legende de sainct Claude'. Incipit: ‘[S]ainct Claude fut ne de la noble lignee des princes de Salins . . .’ les siecles des siecles. Amen

Q9r [Table of contents.] ‘La table'.

Imprint

Imprint: [Lyons: Jean Du Pré, c.1489]. Folio.

Remarks: As dated by CIBN; Sheppard dates [c.1490]. Confused by Pr with the French Vitas Patrum printed by Philippi and Du Pré, Jan. 1486/7 (Sheppard); see BMC VIII 281, note on type 121B.

Collation

Collation: [*²] a–z A–P⁸ Q¹⁰.

Types: Type: 121 B. Capital spaces, with guide-letters.

Leaves: 316 leaves, 3-314 numbered i–cccxii. 2 columns.

Line number: 42 lines and headline (a1r).

Type area: Type area: 252 (262) ×174 mm (a1r).

Illustrations: Woodcuts. The full-page woodcut of the Last Judgement ([*2v]) is reproduced in Fairfax Murray, French Books, 881.

Remarks: Leaf [*1r], title: ‘La vie des ſainctƺ en francoys'; [*2r]: ‘[M]Onſeigneur ſaīt iheroſme dit ceſte | auctorite: fais touſiours aulcūe cho | ſe de bien . . .'; col. 2, l. 7, prologue: ‘[T]Out le tēps de ceſte p̄ſente vie eſt di= | uiſe en quatre temps . . .'; [*2v] [woodcut, Last Judgement]; a1r: ‘Cy cōmence la legende doree en frācoys | Et premierement de laduēt de nr̄e ſeigneur'; Q8v, col. 2, l. 28: ‘ . . . Et adonc fut | ſolennellem̄t celebree et p̄mieremēt īſtituee | la feſte ānuelle du benoit cōfeſſeur ſaīt clau= | de partout le dioceſe de Lyō en lonneur et | gloire de dieu tout puiſſant qui vit et regne | partous les ſecles des ſecles. Amen'; Q9r: ‘Cy apres commence et ſenſuit la table | du nombre des fueilles et lordre de ceſte legē | de des ſaintz . . .'; Q10r, col. 1: ‘Cy finiſt la table de la legende des ſaintz'.

References

ISTC: ij00154400

Hain: C 6477;

Proctor: Pr 8532;

Others: CIBN J‑110; Brenda Dunn-Lardeau and Dominique Coq, ‘Fifteenth and Sixteenth-century Editions of the Légende Dorée', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 47 (1985), 87-101, at 89, no. 9 (with date given as [not before 17 Dec. 1488]); omitted from Seyboldt: see p. 327; Sheppard 6643-5.

LCN: 14499030

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