Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas collegit in unu[m] frater Jacobus de Voraigne natione ianuensis ordinis fratrum predicatoru[m]..
Jacobus,de Voragine,approximately 1229-1298.
Mynett, C.,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,1864-1958,former owner.StEdNL
Carmelite Monastery (Chalon-sur-Saône, France),former owner.StEdNL
Sotheby's (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL
Maggs Bros.,bookseller.StEdNL
Lugduni : Per venerabilem viru[m] magistru[m] Mathiam Huss.,
anno domi[ni]. M.cccclxxxvii. die vero vicesimo mensis iulii fini feliciter. [20 July 1487]
Title from caption at head of recto of leaf a2.
Imprint from colophon on verso of leaf C7.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [con]⁸ A-B⁶ C-D⁸.
With marginal annotations.
Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red.
Bibliographical notes on front pastedown and endpaper.
Goff
GW
ISTC
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Ink inscription at foot of leaf a2: Ex Bibliotheca Carmelitarum Cabilonensium. Ink inscription on a3 in an apparently 16th-century hand: C. Mynett. Bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins on front pastedown. Lot 429 in the 5 November 1946 Sotheby's sale of Perrins's books where it sold for £85. Bought by the Library from Maggs with the Lauriston Castle Fund 19 December 1946.
19th-century quarter leather with marbled paper over boards and gilt tooled spine.
Saints
France Lyon.