Legenda aurea
By: [co[m]pilata p[er] ... Iacobu[m] de Voragine ...].
Publisher: Ulrich Zell]
Published: 1483
Place of publication: [Cologne
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Christian saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Goff J-108
Copinger 6434
BM 15th cent., I, p. 197 (IB.3036)
Polain 2197
Caption title (leaf Ia).
Author statement from explicit on verso of leaf CCXXvi (misnumbered CCXXvij).
Date from explicit on recto of last leaf. Place and printer from Goff (place also inferable from poem following date in book).
Each leaf is numbered in the upper right corner on its recto; the same number appears in the upper left corner of the facing page (the verso of the preceding leaf).
Polain, while miscounting the leaves ("6 ffnc., 457 ffc."), correctly notes: "Le nombre des légendes ajoutées ici [beginning at leaf [CCXXvij]] est bien plus considérable que dans les autres éditions; la table en énumère 204."
Signatures: pi⁶ a-e⁸ f¹⁰ g-z⁸ A-S⁸ T⁶ V¹⁰ X-Z⁸ 2a-2k⁸ 2l⁶.
Includes indexes.
LC copy: capitals, paragraph marks, and initial strokes in red. Third, 4th, and last leaves slightly damaged; upper margin of leaves toward end cropped. Old half leather over red cloth binding (rebound by Conservation Dept. 3-12-1990.) Provenance: Benedictine abbey Werden (Germany); E. Crawshaw; LC purchase, 1923.