Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sa[n]ctorum appellatur.

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Author / Creator:Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298, author.
Uniform title:Legenda aurea
Imprint:[Strassburg] : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], [19 December 1486]
Description:[264] leaves ; 31 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
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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/2781775
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Varying Form of Title:Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur
Other authors / contributors:Husner, Georg, -1505, printer.
Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie (Tachov, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic), former owner.
Provenance:Former owner's inscription: Pro parochiali ec[c]l[esi]a[?] B.V. Mariae sub tituli Assumptionis in Tachau.
Former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands; manicules, maltese crosses, and other marginal index marks; underscoring; drawing of a flower[?] on leaf [161] verso.
Decoration: Large and medium red initials; rubricated.
Binding: Half bound leather and tan paper over boards.
Notes:Incipit, leaf [13] recto: Incipit prologus super Legendas sa[n]cto[rum] quas collegit in vnum frater Iacobus natione Ianuensis ordinis fratrum predicatorum.
Colophon, leaf [263] verso: Expliciu[n]t quoru[n]dam sancto[rum] Lege[n]de adiu[n]cte post Lombardicam historia[m]. Impresse Argentine anno domini M.cccclxxxvj. Finite tertia feria ante festum Sancti Thome apostoli.
Printer from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Signatures: 1⁸ 2⁶ a-y⁸·⁶ z⁸ A-D⁶·⁸ E-F⁶ G-K⁸·⁶ L-M⁶ N⁸; 1₂-1₄ missigned 1-1₃.
Printed in 2 columns; 46-47 lines; Proctor, types 1, 3; capital spaces, chiefly with guide letters.
Last leaf blank.
Includes index.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ij00117000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M11277
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 6444
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry J-117
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 135 (IB.1868)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 608
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry I-90

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