Incipit prologus in legendas sanctorum
By: quas collegit in vnum frater Iacobus ianuensis de ordine predicatorum
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1482
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints; Biography; Early works to 1800; Legends; Calendar; Church calendar
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/2r).

Colophon (leaf 26/6r): Finit lombardica hystoria p[er] mandata Anthonij koburger Nurenberge impressa Anno salutis .Mcccclxxxij. k[a]l[endas]. octob.

Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2⁶ 3⁸ 4-5⁶ 6-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-10⁸ 11-14⁶ 15-17⁸ 18-21⁶ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-26⁶].

Errors in foliation: leaves XLI and LXIIII misnumbered lXI and lXIII respectively.

Text in double columns, 54 lines per column.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Copinger, 6429.

Proctor, 2025.

Goff, J-103.

BM 15th cent., II, 423 (IB.7274).

BSB-Ink, I-83.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ij00103000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 690.

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ij00103000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M11246

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 6429

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry J-103

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 423 (IB. 7274)

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 2025

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry I-83

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry J-039

From the library of Richard Ashhurst Bowie; previous ownership notations erased from 1/1r and 1/2r.

Imperfect: leaves 1/1 and 19/6 slightly mutilated.

Quires numbered in ms. at foot of first leaf, but mostly trimmed away.

Large initial added in red and 2 shades of green on 1/2r; initials elsewhere, paragraph marks, and capital strokes added in red.

Bound in half modern brown morocco and marbled boards; dampstains.