Lombardica hystoria
Contributors: Dinckmut, Konrad, active 1476-1496, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: P[er] Conradu[m] Dinckmut
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Impresse in Vlm
Language: lat
Number of pages: 852
Subjects: Christian saints; Biography; Early works to 1800; Legends
Other titles: Incipit legenda sancto[rum] que Lombardica no[m]i[n]atur hystoria; Legenda sanctorum que Lombardica nominatur hystoria
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Colophon: Expliciunt quorundam sanctoru[m] legende adiuncte post Lombartica[m] hystoria[m] impresse in Vlm p[er] Conradu[m] Dinckmut anno Mcccclxxxviii.

Signatures: a-z ⁸ A-Z⁸ AA-FF⁸ GG¹⁰

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 (p. [3-27]).

Burke Library copy 1: Imperfect: leaves [423-426] wanting. Colophon transcribed on fly leaf.

Burke Library copy 1: Inscriptions on t.p., first of which is effaced: Collegij S. Hieronymi; Cenobij S. Georgij; F. Georgius Abbas 1637.

Burke Library copy 1: Large initials supplied in red.

Burke Library copy 1: Ownership stamp on first and last leaves, with initials: VF.

Burke Library copy 1: Binding: Half vellum (manuscript waste?) and mottled paper over pasteboard.

Burke Library copy 2: Imperfect; first leaf wanting; leaf [2] mutilated, with some loss of text.

Burke Library copy 2: Ownership stamp of Rev. S.M. Jackson, numbered 2564, and dated June 24, 1889; presentation stamp from Samuel Macauley Jackson to Union, dated Jul. 20, 1912.

Burke Library copy 2: Large initials supplied in red.

Burke Library copy 2: Some marginal annotation throughout; manuscript pagination.

Burke Library copy 2: Binding: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; clasps wanting; manuscript waste tab indexes.

ISTC, ij00121000

Goff, J-121

GW M11311

BSB-Ink, I-91

Proctor, 2570

Copinger, 6449

BM 15th cent., II, p. 536 (IB. 9361)

Pellechet, Voragine, 45

BN cat. des incun., J-94

Polain, 2200

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., J-051

IGI, 5026

Seyboldt, R.F. 15th cent. eds. of the Legenda aurea. (Speculum 22 (1946): 327-338), 65

Amelung, P. Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten 1473-1500, 1979, v. 1, p. 232, no. 118

Harper's cat., 810

Gatch. Van Ess catalog B-110