Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

Strassburg:  [Georg Husner], 1479.
Fol.   [1-28 310 4-78 810 9-138 1410 15-168 176 18-228 236 24-258 2610 27-298 306 31-358 3610 37-398 406 41-438 4410 45-486.8 49-5010].   [404] leaves (1/1 blank).
ISTC ij00092000;  GW M11307;  Goff J92;  C 6417;  Bod-inc J-043;  BSB-Ink I-74.

GIP number: J7
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Mu7-x.5 (see main library entry for this item)
Variants: 1/2r, col. 1, lines 1-2: ‘... legen||das ...’ not as Bod-inc ‘... legen||dis ...’;  1/2v, col. 1, line 1: ‘[A]Bſcōdita ...’ not as Bod-inc ‘[A]Bcōdita ...’;  50/10r (f. 404r), final line of colophon reads ‘quadringenteſimoſeptuageſimonono’ as Bod-inc, not ‘quadringentissimoseptuagesimonono’ as Copinger.
Provenance: Sankt Peter im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Benedictine monastery of St Peter:  inscription on 1/2r “Mon[aste]rij S: Petri in Hercyn:”.
Rev. J. Compton (19th century):  armorial bookplate on front pastedown (Franks 6759).
David Murray (1842-1928), Glasgow lawyer, antiquary and bibliographer:  bookplate on front pastedown;  source unknown.
University of Glasgow:  Murray library donation, 1927.
Binding: England, 20th century.  Rebound by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Nov. 1971, in full red goatskin, replacing a binding of rebacked brown sheep over oak boards;  binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown together with sample of previous cover and previous title label.   Size:  307 x 220 mm.
Leaf size: 292 x 213 mm.
Annotations: Additional reference in an early hand added to Capitula on 3/3r (f. 19r);  marginal annotation (on Julian the Apostate) in the same hand on 10/1r (f. 77r) and a single word annotation relating to the Virgin Mary also in the same hand on 46/6v (f. 368v);  16th-century marginal annotations (on St Augustine) in a different hand on 30/2r, 30/2v and 30/3r (ff. 238r, 238v and 239r);  19th/20th-century code ‘+/-’ on 1/2r and 1/2v and number ‘2’ within a circle on 1/2r, both in pencil.
Decoration: Six-line initial ‘U’ supplied in reddish-purple with pen-work extensions into the margin on 3/1v (f. 17v) i.e. start of Prologus, together with a paragraph mark in red on the same page;  three-line initial ‘A’ supplied in reddish-purple with pen-work extensions into the margin on 46/6r (f. 368r) i.e. start of cap. CLXXXVIII De conceptione Sancte Marie Virginis, together with a paragraph mark in red on the same page and with capital strokes in dark purple throughout the chapter;  chapter heading De Sancto Stephano (cap. VIII) outlined in red;  capital strokes supplied in red in cap. VII, De Sancta Anastasia.
Imperfections: Wanting the blank leaf 1/1;  heavily wormed thoughout, with loss of text.

 

Monastic ownership inscription in Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia