Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [Italian]. Legendario di Sancti.

Translated by Niccolò Malermi.

Venice:  Nicolaus Jenson, [between 1 July 1475 and 23 Feb. 1476]
Fol.   [1-15¹⁰ 16⁸ (16/8+χ1) 17-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22-24¹⁰ 25⁸ (25/8+χ1) 26-27¹⁰ 28-32⁸ 33¹²].   [318] leaves.
ISTC ij00174000;  GW 14074;  Goff J174;  C 6497;  Bod-inc J-072.

GIP number:	J10
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.8 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	Printer's pin-holes visible.
Provenance:	Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 2782 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive:  supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris:  1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 96 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 61 livres 1 sou;  see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23v). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.4.7”.
Binding:	France, 18th-century red goatskin;  covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  flyleaves have a fleur-de-lys watermark above the date 1742;  gilt-edged leaves;  turquoise silk bookmark.   Size:  410 x 290 mm.
Leaf size:	393 x 275 mm.
Annotations:	Very occasional evidence of early signatures;  foliated (with one error) in a 17th/18th-century hand “1”-“314” from 1/4-33/12 (ff. 4-318).
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	None.