Incipit prologus in legendas sancto[rum]
By: quas collegit in vnu[m] Frater Iacobus Ianuensis de Ordine Predicatorum.
Contributors: Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513 printer.; Creagh, John Thomas, b. 1870, former owner.; St. John's Seminary (Brighton, Mass.).
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1478
Place of publication: [Nuremburg
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Christian saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.; Christian saints -- Calendar -- Early works to 1800.; Church calendar -- Early works to 1800.; Incunabula -- Specimens.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title from incipit, leaf 2₁r.

Colophon, leaf [32]₆r: Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoq[ua]dringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo. ydus v[er]o Augusti tertio. op[us] hystorie lombardice (deo opitulante) insigne cu[m] legendis in fine coimpressis terminatu[m] ... Que et p[ro]cura[n]te expendenteq[ue] Antonio koburger ciue Nurnberg[e]n[se]. salubro fine consumata.

Signatures: : [1², 2-5¹⁰ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8⁶ 9-15¹⁰ 16⁶ 17⁸ 18⁶ 19-25¹⁰ 26-29⁶/⁸ 30-31¹⁰ 32⁶].

Errors in foliation: leaves ccxvj and cclxvij misnumbered ccxvij and cclvij respectively.

Text in double columns, 50 lines per column; initial spaces; no guide letters.

BM 15th cent., II, p. 416 (IC.7175)

Copinger 6414=6413

Goff J-90

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 679

St. John's Seminary Library ; loan ; 2008.

Burns Library copy on loan from St. John's Seminary: bookplate on recto front flyleaf: Library of St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts.

Burns Library copy on loan from St. John's Seminary: armorial bookplate on recto front flyleaf: Ex libris Joannis T. Creagh.

Burns Library copy on loan from St. John's Seminary: embossed stamp on recto front flyleaf: Ex libris John T. Creagh.

Burns Library copy on loan from St. John's Seminary: ink stamps on recto front flyleaf and verso last leaf: Creagh Research Library, St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Mass.