Incipit prologus in legendas sancto[rum]
By: quas collegit in vnu[m] frater Iacobus Ianuensis de ordine predicatorum
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints; Legends; Early works to 1800; Biography; Calendar; Church calendar
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 2/1r).

Colophon (leaf 32/6r): Anno d[omi]ni .Millesimoq[ua]dringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo. ydus v[er]o Augusti tertio. op[us] hystorie lombardice (deo opitulante) insigne cu[m] legendis in fine coimpressis terminatu[m] ... Que et p[ro]cura[n]te expendenteq[ue] Antonio koburger ciue Nurnberg[e]n[se]. salubro fine consumata.

Signatures: [1², 2-5¹⁰ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8⁶ 9-15¹⁰ 16⁶ 17⁸ 18⁶ 19-25¹⁰ 26-29⁶·⁸ 30-31¹⁰ 32⁶].

Errors in foliation: leaves ccxvj and cclxvij misnumbered ccxvij and cclvij respectively.

Text in double columns, 50 lines per column.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

Tabula: leaves 1/1v-1/2r.

Copinger, 6414=6413.

Proctor, 1987.

Goff, J-90.

BM 15th cent., II, 416 (IC.7175).

BSB-Ink, I-70.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ij00090000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 679.