Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia
Contributors: Zainer, Johannes, -1541?, printer
Publisher: Johann Zainer
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Ulm
Language: lat
Number of pages: 836
Subjects: Christian saints; Biography; Early works to 1800; Legends; Feasts
Other titles: Lombardica historia; Incipit prologus sup[er] lege[n]das sanctorum; Prologus super legendas sanctorum; Legende sanctorum
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title and imprint from ISTC.

Includes texts relating to Marian feasts but with a collection of legends different from the edition also printed at Ulm by Johann Zainer ca. 1478; cf. Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., J-041 and J-042.

Title of table at end begins: Incipit tabula super legendas sancto[rum] [secundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti collecta et primo [per]mittit [pro]logum qui ost[e]ndit modum reperie[n]di materias co[n]tentas in diuersis locis huius uoluminis.

Leaves [1] and [372] are blank.

Wooducts: ornamental initials, some with eagles and dragons and others with foliage.

Colophon: Legende sancto[rum] quas [com]pilauit frater Iacob[us] Ianuensis natione de Ordine Frat[rum] Predicato[rum] bene registrate [secundu]m alphabeti ordinem. Impressi per Iohanne[m] Zainer in opido Vlm finiunt feliciter.

Signatures: [1-18¹⁰·⁸ 19⁸ 20-40¹⁰·⁸ 41¹⁰ 42¹² 43-46⁸ 47⁶ 48⁸].

Two columns in the tables. 41 lines. Types: 136, headings; 96a, text. Capital spaces, without guide letters.

Burke Library copy: Bound with: Nider, Johannes. Incipit consolatorium timoratae conscientiae magistri Johannis Nider. [Augsburg : Anton Sorg, ca. 1484].

Burke Library copy: Inscription on t.p.: Legenda Jacobi de Voragiensis, ex libris Jo[ann]is Stromair Parochi Gerolfmaiensis.

Burke Library copy: Not rubricated; initials not supplied.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Quarter blind-tooled leather over beveled wooden boards; clasps wanting.

Incunabula short title catalogue (ISTC), ij00091000

BM 15th cent., II, p. 529 (IB. 9237)

BN cat. des incun., J-70

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., J-042

BSB-Ink, I-71

Polain, 4476

Proctor, 2538

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-91

IGI, 5012

Harper's cat., 402

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW), M11319