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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (1230-1298). Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 1488.
Dinckmut's edition of the hugely popular and influential Golden Legend, Jacopo de Voragine's collection of legendary lives of the saints. It was first printed at Strasbourg by Heinrich Eggestein, c.1472-44, twice printed by Caxton in 1483-84 and 1493, and went through close to 70 editions by the end of the 15th century. C 6449; BMC I,I 536; BSB-Ink I-91; CIBN J-94; Bod-inc J-051; Goff J-121.
Chancery folio (271 X 183mm). Rubricated. (Small wormholes in lower margin of quires a-c and A , occasional stain and a few marginal tears, faint browning, heavier in final quire GG, wormtrack in text of final leaf). Contemporary Ulm binding, bound at Kloster Wengen [Kyriss 167]: blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (Kyriss tools 1, 7, etc), evidence of fore-edge clasps (few wormholes, lightly darkened and scuffed, light wear at corners on lower cover).
Dinckmut's edition of the hugely popular and influential Golden Legend, Jacopo de Voragine's collection of legendary lives of the saints. It was first printed at Strasbourg by Heinrich Eggestein, c.1472-44, twice printed by Caxton in 1483-84 and 1493, and went through close to 70 editions by the end of the 15th century. C 6449; BMC I,I 536; BSB-Ink I-91; CIBN J-94; Bod-inc J-051; Goff J-121.
Chancery folio (271 X 183mm). Rubricated. (Small wormholes in lower margin of quires a-c and A , occasional stain and a few marginal tears, faint browning, heavier in final quire GG, wormtrack in text of final leaf). Contemporary Ulm binding, bound at Kloster Wengen [Kyriss 167]: blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (Kyriss tools 1, 7, etc), evidence of fore-edge clasps (few wormholes, lightly darkened and scuffed, light wear at corners on lower cover).
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