Incipit prologus super legendam sancto[rum] qua[m] [com]pilauit frat[er] Iacobus natione Ianue[n]sis Ordinis Fratru[m] Predicato[rum].

Incipit prologus super legendam sancto[rum] qua[m] [com]pilauit frat[er] Iacobus natione Ianue[n]sis Ordinis Fratru[m] Predicato[rum].

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298, compiler.
Uniform title:	Legenda aurea
Imprint:	[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [not after 1478]
Description:	[2], 394, that is, 395, [1] leaves ; 29 cm (folio)
Language:	Latin
Subject:	Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800. Christian saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800. Christian saints. Biography. Legends. Early works. Incunabula -- Germany -- Ulm -- 1478. Hagiographies (works) -- Germany -- Ulm -- 1478. Annotations (Provenance)
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2781347

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Incipit prologus super legendam sanctorum quam compilauit frater Iacobus natione Ianuensis Ordinis Fratrum Predicatorum
Other authors / contributors:	Zainer, Johannes, -1541? printer. Abtei Reichenau, former owner.
Provenance:	Former owner's inscription: Mon[aster]ij Augiae Divitis. Former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands, some contemporary.
Notes:	Title from incipit, leaf 1. Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue. Explicit, leaf 395 verso: Finit feliciter. Signatures: [1-22¹⁰·⁸ 23-42⁸̇·¹⁰ 43-44¹⁰]; unsigned. Table printed in 2 columns; 40 lines; woodcut capitals. Leaves 241-395 misnumbered '240'-'394'; numerous other errors in foliation. Last leaf blank. Text for Saint Hilarion rubricated (leaves 382 verso-383 recto). University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking leaf [2] first sequence and final blank leaf. Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ij00088400 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry I-68 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M11313 Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 6389 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry J-100 Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, volume 3, page 541, no. 56 Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 2520[?]

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Call Number:	alc Incun 1478.J2
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