Title: Legenda Aurea Sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, 1495. Annotated and Scarce Incunable
Author: Jacobus de Voragine
Publisher: Lyon, Nicolas Wolff
Condition: Good
A scarce late 15th century edition of de Voragine’s Legende Sanctorum, also known more commonly as the Golden Legend of the Passion of the Saints, a famed collection of 153 hagiographies (biography or life of a saint or ecclesiastical figure), widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. This particular edition has been printed in a two-column format by Nicolas Wolff, Lyon printer and type foundryman.
This volume has been rubricated throughout in red, with some elaborate flourishes, and some handwritten annotations scattered throughout.
This volume has been bound in brown calf over wooden boards.
USTC records 11 copies of this edition in libraries.
The title page, and a table leaf are lacking.
One volume in quarto, (10 of 12)+CCXLVII leaves
This volume is in good shape, with rubbing and wear to the binding. Several quires and leaves have been poorly bound. There are several wormholes throughout, obscuring the odd letter or two per leaf.