Incipit prologus super lege[n]da sanctorum quam compilauit frater Jacobus natione Janue[n]sis ordinis fratrum p[re]dicatorum
Contributors: Sensenschmidt, Johann, -1491?, printer; Frisner, Andreas, -1504, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [Joannis Sensenschmid et Andree Frisner]
Published: 1476
Place of publication: Nuremberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Christian saints; Biography; Early works to 1800; Legends
Other titles: Legenda sanctorum; Historiam Lombardicam
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title from incipit.

Imprint from colophon: Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxvi vii Calendas ap[ri]lis in Nuremberga oppido germaniȩ ... Joannis Sesenschmid ciuis Nurembergen[sis] et Andreȩ frisner de Bunsi ... fulcit defensatq[que].

Printed in two columns, 51-52 lines; capital spaces, without guide letters.

No pagination, signatures, or catchwords.

Incipits and explicits printed in red.

Devices beneath colophon printed in red.

Burke Library copy: Inscription on front blank: Liber Ap[osto]lorum Sanctorum Petri et Pauli Conventus Monialium Ordinis S[anc]ti Benedicti in [Hademerslaben duae auferenti?].

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, with large initials supplied in red and black.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; pastedowns removed; metal clasps intact.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-85

Copinger 6411

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00085000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M11258