Legenda aurea sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. German.
Contributors: Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513, printer.; Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, ill.
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: ger
Subjects: Saints -- Early works to 1800.; Incunabula -- Specimens.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Specimens.
Other titles: Passional.; Heiligen Leben.
Notes: Leaf cccixxxv₍b₎ (colophon): Der hochen vnteylbern heylige Triualtigkeyt zu Lob ... ist gedrückt diss Passional. das ist der Heyligen Leben ...

Signatures: [a², b-v⁸, x⁶, y⁸, z⁶, A-Z⁸, aa⁸, bb⁶, cc-dd⁸]

Some of the woodcuts are attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Cf. E. Panofsky. A. Dürer, v. 2, p. 52.

Initials on leaves i and clxxiii supplied in gold and colors; other initials in red or blue, paragraph marks in red. Hand-colored illustrations.

Printed in 2 columns per page, 50 lines per column.

Hain, *9981.

Hain-Copinger, II, 6505.

BM 15th cent., II, p. 433 (IC 7400)

Schramm. Bilderschmuck d. Fruhdr., v. 17, p. 3, 8, and ill.

Goff, J-168.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-107437402.