Legenda aurea sanctorum
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Legenda aurea sanctorum
Other titles: Legenda aurea; The golden legend
Classmark: BC MS 23
Creator(s): Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)(Author)
Publication city: [Spain ?]
Date(s): [ca. 1300-1320]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (ii, 292, ii leaves) (2 columns, 39 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372701
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45.
Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included.
Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated gold ground.
Written in textualis rotunda.
Lacking the lives of Sophia, Timothy, Fabian, Apollinaris and Boniface.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 58. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 29-30.
Features
Bindings
Bound for Howard de Walden in dark red morocco by Riviere and Son. The front cover has a cream leather panel tooled with six miniatures in medallions (St John the Baptist, St Paul, St Michael, St Stephen, St Mary Magdalene and St John the Evangelist), surrounded by further figures (Virgin Mary and Child, St Peter, the Holy Spirit, the Cross, and angels) and a panel border decorated with birds, fish and leaves. Small decorative dots on the panel are painted green and red.
Provenance
Inscription on f. 292r reads: 'Anno Domini M° CCCC° XXIX et die xxviii mensis Iulii. Frater Pontius lauterii ordinis predicatorum conuentus montispessulani Inndignus Spiritus Troiam existens in Valencia Regni Aragonie dedi (sic) amore dei conuentui Mossernen' istum librum intitulatum Flores sanctorum ut orent deum pro eo...' suggesting that the book was presented to some college. The armorial bookplate of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis VIII Baron Howard de Walden (motto: "non quo sed quomodo") is inside the front cover.
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