Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sanctoru[m] appellatur
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sanctoru[m] appellatur
Other titles: Legenda aurea; Lombardica historia quae a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur; Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur; Lombardica historia; Lombardica hystoria; Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia; Legenda sanctorum; Legenda Lombardica
Classmark: BC Incunabula/VOR
Creator(s): Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
Additional creator(s): Husner, Georg (1505) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Husner, Georg; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]; [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]
Publication city: Impresse Argentine [Strassburg]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcvj. Finite circa festu[m] ascensionis d[omi]ni. [1496]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [264] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106450
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008155429705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: j⁸ 2⁶ a-y in alternate 8s and 6s z⁸ A-D in alternate 6s and 8s E⁶ F-I in alternate 6s and 8s K-M⁶ N⁸.
Place and date of publication from the second colophon.
First colophon on H5r reads: Impressa arge[n]tine anno d[omi]ni.M.ccccxcvj. Finita circa festum asce[n]sionis d[omi]ni.
Second colophon on N7v reads: Impresse Argentine Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcvj. Finite circa festu[m] ascensionis d[omi]ni.
Printer from ISTC.
A page-for-page reprint of the Husner eitions of 19 December 1486, 23-25 February 1490, 16 August 1490, and 9 August 1492, all of which have the same quiring.
Signatures j2-5 are signed j, j2, j3 and j4 respectively.
Printed in two columns with 46 lines to a full column.
Printed headlines.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
The final leaf N8 is blank.
Includes index.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00133000.
Indexed in: Copinger 6467; Goff J133; Proctor 630; BMC I 146 (I.B. 1926).
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century.
In black ink manuscript on the title page is an inscription, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century, giving details of the edition.
Major initials supplied and decorated alternately in blue and red.
Paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.
The first leaf has been mended.
Bindings
Binding of brown and black marbled paper over pasteboard, probably nineteenth-century. Printed in black between lines of ornamentation on a red paper lettering piece at the top of the smooth spine are the words: Historia Lombardica. The leaf edges are sprinkled red. Size: 289 x 220mm. Leaf size: 279 x 205mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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