Bod-Inc: J-072

Jacobus de Voragine

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [Italian] Legendario di Sancti.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1v] Malerbi, Niccol ò: [Letter addressed to all pious Catholic people.] Incipit: ‘[L]a summa charita et beniuolentia con laquale tutte le catholice et deuote mente . . .’ Malerbi acknowledges the collaboration of Hieronymus Squarzaficus (Hieronymus Fiorentinus); on the discontinuous and rather superficial work of revision on the language conducted by Squarzaficus see Marucci's editorial notes in Racconti esemplari di predicatori del Due e Trecento, ed. G. Varanini and G. Baldassarri, 3 vols, I novellieri italiani, 4 (Rome, 1993), 692-3. A diplomatic transcription in G. C. Keidel, ‘I santi di Manerbi Printed in Vellum', in Mélanges offerts à Émile Picot par ses élèves, II (Paris, 1913; repr. Geneva, 1969), 103-13, at 110-12.

[a2r] [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[E]l se distingue tuttol tempo in quatro parte ouer tempi . . .’ Following ed. Graesse, 1-2.

[a2r] ‘Tauola de tuttol libro per ordine di mese in mese'.

[a4r] [Jacobus de Voragine]: Legendario di Sancti. ‘Legende de tutti li sancti et le sancte'. Translated by Niccolò Malerbi. Following ed. Graesse, nos i–ii, ccii (ending imperfectly), iii, clxxxix, iv–xlv, ccxiv, xlvi–xlvii, xlix–li, liii–lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii–cv, cvii–cxix, ccxxxvi, cxx–cxxiii, ccxiii, cxxiv–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxviii, cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clxxxii, ccxix, cxcv, ccxxii, ccxxxi. ‘Zenone' and ‘Syro' inserted between clxxxix and iv; ‘Come fu trasferito el corpo de sancta Lucia virgine in Venetia' inserted between iv and v; ‘Mauro abbate' between xix and xx; ‘Ioseph' (the text differs considerably from ccxxv) between ccxiv and xlvi; ‘De la translatione del corpo del beato Marco euangelista' between lxii and lxiii; ‘Antonio confessore del ordine minore' between lxxxii and lxxxiii; ‘Romualdo confessore' between lxxxvi and lxxxvii; ‘Vigilio' between lxxxvii and lxxxviii; ‘Paterniano' and ‘Hermacora et Fortunato' between xcii and xciii; ‘Panthaleone martyre' between ci and cii; ‘Fantino' and ‘Alberto' between cv and cvii; ‘Maria dala neue' between cxii and cxiii; ‘Helena madre di Constantino imperator' and ‘Ludouico episcopo et confessor' between ccxxxvi and cxx; ‘Zacharia padre de sancto Ioanne Baptista' between cxxx and cxxxi; ‘Lucia Geminiano et Eufemina', ‘Reparata', and ‘Miniato et compagni' between cxxxiv and cxxxv; ‘Petronio', ‘Magno', and ‘Iustina Patauina martyre et virgine' between cxlix and cl; ‘Gaudentio episcopo et martyre' between clxi and clxii; ‘Santissima Trinita', ‘Tractato composto a honor et gloria del corpo et sangue del saluator nostro Iesu Christo', ‘Spinea corona del signore', ‘Sabba abbate', ‘Basso', ‘Proculo', ‘Stephano prete', ‘Columba', ‘Simeone propheta', ‘Fosca', ‘Ioseph' (the text differs considerably from ccxxv), ‘Nicheto', ‘Athanasio', ‘Iob', ‘Ubaldo', ‘Liberale', ‘Canciano' inserted between clxxxii and ccxix; ‘Iohanne' between ccxix and cxcv; ‘Abdon et Senen', ‘Transfiguratione del nostro saluatore', ‘Antonino', ‘Victore et Stephana', ‘Ianuario', ‘Terentio', ‘Maximo', ‘Archangelo Raphaele', ‘Prodicimo', ‘Parisi confessore del ordine de Calmaldoli', ‘historia del volto sancto di Luca descripta per Lebonio diacono' inserted between ccxxii and ccxxxi; ‘del beato Laurentio Iustiniano primo patriarcha di Venetia' and ‘Nicolao da Tolantino' inserted after ccxxxi. See Racconti esemplari di predicatori del Due e Trecento, ed. G. Varanini and G. Baldassarri, 3 vols, I novellieri italiani, 4 (Rome, 1993), I 27-686, based on this edition of the text, with the exclusion of the ‘Venetian' additions introduced by Malerbi; see at 693-4 the criteria for the selection of the lives. On this edition in particular see V. Marucci, ‘Manoscritti e stampe antiche della ‘Legenda Aurea' di Iacopo da Varagine volgarizzata', Filologia e Critica, 5 (1980), 30-50, at 40-1.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, [after 1 July 1475]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a–p¹⁰ q⁸⁺¹ r–v¹⁰ x⁸ y z A¹⁰ B⁸⁺¹ C D¹⁰ E–I⁸ K¹²].

Types: Type: 115 (112) R. Capital spaces, with guide-letters.

Leaves: 318 leaves; 2 columns.

Line number: 51 lines ([a5r]).

Type area: Type area: 287 ×187 mm ([a5r]).

References

ISTC: ij00174000

Hain: C 6497;

Goff: Goff J‑174;

Proctor: Pr 4094A;

Others: Auguste Castan, Catalogue des incunables de la bibliothèque publique de Besançon (Besançon, 1893), no. 971; CIBN J‑116; Hillard 1123; Lowry, Jenson, 244, no. 40; Oates 1637; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 131; Seyboldt no. 161; Sheppard 3265.

LCN: 14716655

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