Explicit lombardica hystoria sanctoru[m]
Series: German books before 1601 -- roll 412, item 12
Publisher: Heinrich Eggestein
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Christian saints; Biography; Early works to 1800; Legends; Calendar; Church calendar
Other titles: Lombardica hystoria sanctorum
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title from explicit (leaf 30/5r).

Of the 4 undated eds. which can be assigned approximate printing dates contemporaneous with or before the Paris, 1 September 1475 ed., this ed. is most likely to be the first ed.

Imprint from ISTC.

The Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe copy has an April 1472 purchase inscription.

Signatures: [1²; 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(7+1) 4-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰(8+1) 11-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰(±6) 15-16¹⁰ 17⁸(6+1;-8); 18¹⁰(±2;7+1) 19-29¹⁰ 30⁶; 30/6 blank].

Leaves 10/8+1 and 17/6+1 are half-leaves consisting of 1 column of text on recto, with verso blank. These were machined as folio half-sheets, with the blank portion used as a binding stub.

Leaves 1/1-1/2 consist of a table of rubrics.

Text in double columns, 42 lines per column.

Spaces for initials and rubrics.

In some copies, the rubrics on 2/1r may be red-printed.

Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.

Copinger, 6393.

Proctor, 278.

Goff, J-81.

BM 15th cent., I, 71 (IB.763).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ij00081000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 90.