Legenda aurea sanctorum sive Lombardica historia.
Author
Jacobus de Voragine, c. 1229-1298.
Title
Legenda sanctorum al[ii]s Lombardica historia.
Date
1486
Place
Basel
Publisher
Nikolaus Kesler [Kessler]
Language
Latin
Note
TITLE:
Title from title page on sig. [a]1r.
Capital letters, the first with a guide-letter.
Sig. [a]2r: Incipit tabula sup[er] legendas sanctoru[m] [secundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti collecta. Et primo premittitur prologus qui ostendit modum reperiendi materias contentas in diuersis locis huius voluminis.
COLOPHON:
Colophon on sig. O5v: Legenda sancto[rum] al[ii]s Lombardica hystoria nu[n]cupata Impressa Basilee [et] feliciter [con]summata p[er] Nicolau[s] Kesler. Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimooctogesimo-sexto. die vero .xxv. mens[um] Iunij.
With Nicolaus Kesler's woodcut printer's device beneath the colophon on sig. O5v.
MARGINALIA:
Victoria University Library copy has modern pen inscription of Kloster Engelberg on title-page with inscription on second leaf dated "1640" with small collection stamp in blank margin. Contemporary margin annotations.
SIGNATURES:
[a]-[b]6, c8, d6, e8, f6, g8, h8, i6, k8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p6, q8, r6, s8, t6, u8, x6, y8, z6, A6, B8, C6, D8, E6, F8, G6, H8, I6, K8, L6, M8, N, O6. Sig. O6 is a blank.
FORMAT:
[256] unnumbered leaves ; 31 cm (folio)
BINDING:
Victoria University Library copy bound in contemporary blind tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards; without clasps (latches and partial straps present); sewn on three double spine cords; paper spine labels.
Victoria University Library copy bound with: Corona B.M.V. Corona beate Marie virginis. [Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], [between 1485 and 1488].
Title from title page on sig. [a]1r.
Capital letters, the first with a guide-letter.
Sig. [a]2r: Incipit tabula sup[er] legendas sanctoru[m] [secundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti collecta. Et primo premittitur prologus qui ostendit modum reperiendi materias contentas in diuersis locis huius voluminis.
COLOPHON:
Colophon on sig. O5v: Legenda sancto[rum] al[ii]s Lombardica hystoria nu[n]cupata Impressa Basilee [et] feliciter [con]summata p[er] Nicolau[s] Kesler. Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimooctogesimo-sexto. die vero .xxv. mens[um] Iunij.
With Nicolaus Kesler's woodcut printer's device beneath the colophon on sig. O5v.
MARGINALIA:
Victoria University Library copy has modern pen inscription of Kloster Engelberg on title-page with inscription on second leaf dated "1640" with small collection stamp in blank margin. Contemporary margin annotations.
SIGNATURES:
[a]-[b]6, c8, d6, e8, f6, g8, h8, i6, k8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p6, q8, r6, s8, t6, u8, x6, y8, z6, A6, B8, C6, D8, E6, F8, G6, H8, I6, K8, L6, M8, N, O6. Sig. O6 is a blank.
FORMAT:
[256] unnumbered leaves ; 31 cm (folio)
BINDING:
Victoria University Library copy bound in contemporary blind tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards; without clasps (latches and partial straps present); sewn on three double spine cords; paper spine labels.
Victoria University Library copy bound with: Corona B.M.V. Corona beate Marie virginis. [Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], [between 1485 and 1488].
Archive Location
Library Catalog
Num Pages
512
Short Title
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia
Call Number
BX4654 .J3 1486
Rare Book Oversize
Collection
Tags
Citation
Jacobus de Voragine, c. 1229-1298., “Legenda aurea sanctorum sive Lombardica historia.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed June 12, 2025, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10391.