Lombardica hystoria.
Dinckmut's edition of Jacopo de Voragine's hugely popular and influential Golden Legend, a collection of legendary lives of the saints. The work was first printed at Strassburg circa 1472-4 and went through close to 70 editions by the end of the 15th century.
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| Uniform Title: | Legenda aurea |
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| Language: | Latin |
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[Ulm, Germany :
Konrad Dinckmut,
1488]
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Early marginalia in Latin and German and other signs of reading in several locations throughout; early manicules in several locations throughout; face drawn in initial C on leaf B7v; wax on leaf 2G2r; item description from a Christie's sale, 12 July 2017, available in MS 466; bookseller's description from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc., Narberth, Pennsylvania, available in MS 466 box 1 folder 126. |
| Binding Information: |
In a contemporary Ulm binding, bound by the Augustinians at the Wengenkloster; blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; outer rules around a border of repeated foliage stamps, an inner border of repeated rosettes and a central rectangle filled with repeated thistle tools; evidence of two fore-edge clasps; later manuscript spine title: Lampardica historia, Iacobvs de Vorgin[...]; manuscript binding waste visible between leaves a8v and b1r; more waste, but with no manuscript remnants, between leaves 2F8v and 2G1r. |
| Physical Description: | 852 unnumbered pages ; 29 cm (folio) |
| Variant Title: |
Lombardica historia
Incipit legenda sancto[rum] que Lombardica no[m]i[n]atur hystoria
Legenda sanctorum que Lombardica nominatur hystoria
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
Dinckmut's edition of Jacopo de Voragine's hugely popular and influential Golden Legend, a collection of legendary lives of the saints. The work was first printed at Strassburg circa 1472-4 and went through close to 70 editions by the end of the 15th century. |
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| Note: | Imprint from colophon (leaf 2G10r): Expliciunt quorundam Sanctoru[m] legende adiuncte post Lombartica[m] hystoria[m], impresse in Vlm p[er] Conradu[m] Dinckmut, anno Mcccclxxxviii. Signatures: a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ 2A-2F⁸ 2G¹⁰. Two sizes of gothic type; 2 columns; 37 lines and headlines. Initial spaces. Headlines have the names of saints or feasts and the numbers of the legends. Includes index (pages [3]-[27]). |
| Call Number: | BX4654 .J33 1488 XX folio |
| References: |
Incunable short title catalogue, ij00121000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-121
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, I-91
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 6449
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 536 (IB. 9361)
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, J-051 |
| Source of Acquisition: |
Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc. ; Purchase ; 20170421. MiEM |
| Place of Publication: | Germany -- Ulm. |