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 M11488; 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). 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. |