INCUNABULA -- JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-1298). Legenda aurea . - USUARDUS (d. c. 875). Martyrologium . Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 22 July 1490. Chancery 2° (266 x 197mm). 316 leaves. 45 lines and headline, double column. Type: 18:290G, 15:175 b G, 17:86G, 16:80G. Opening initials on a2 and c1 in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, other 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red capital strokes, some printed guide-letters. (Small repairs to title, last two lines of colophon erased, an occasional light stain.) Late 19th-century tan pigskin tooled in blind by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (joints starting to split). Provenance : inscriptions erased from title, a2 and below colophon -- Dr. J.A. Giles (Tregaskis bookseller's description dated July 1891).
INCUNABULA -- JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-1298). Legenda aurea . - USUARDUS (d. c. 875). Martyrologium . Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 22 July 1490. Chancery 2° (266 x 197mm). 316 leaves. 45 lines and headline, double column. Type: 18:290G, 15:175 b G, 17:86G, 16:80G. Opening initials on a2 and c1 in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, other 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red capital strokes, some printed guide-letters. (Small repairs to title, last two lines of colophon erased, an occasional light stain.) Late 19th-century tan pigskin tooled in blind by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (joints starting to split). Provenance : inscriptions erased from title, a2 and below colophon -- Dr. J.A. Giles (Tregaskis bookseller's description dated July 1891). Koelhoff's edition of the Golden Legend , the popular collection of saints' lives, is the first to have appended to it the martyrologium of Usuardus. The colophon is dated 'in vigilia sanctissimorum trium Regum', interpreted by A. Labarre as 22 July, correcting previous interpretations of 5 January (cf. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1975, pp.77-80). C 6465 (Voragine only); HCR (Usardus only) 16111; BMC I, 229 (IB. 3615); CIBN J-96; Bod-inc J-060; Goff J-123.
INCUNABULA -- JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-1298). Legenda aurea . - USUARDUS (d. c. 875). Martyrologium . Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 22 July 1490. Chancery 2° (266 x 197mm). 316 leaves. 45 lines and headline, double column. Type: 18:290G, 15:175 b G, 17:86G, 16:80G. Opening initials on a2 and c1 in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, other 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red capital strokes, some printed guide-letters. (Small repairs to title, last two lines of colophon erased, an occasional light stain.) Late 19th-century tan pigskin tooled in blind by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (joints starting to split). Provenance : inscriptions erased from title, a2 and below colophon -- Dr. J.A. Giles (Tregaskis bookseller's description dated July 1891).
INCUNABULA -- JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-1298). Legenda aurea . - USUARDUS (d. c. 875). Martyrologium . Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 22 July 1490. Chancery 2° (266 x 197mm). 316 leaves. 45 lines and headline, double column. Type: 18:290G, 15:175 b G, 17:86G, 16:80G. Opening initials on a2 and c1 in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, other 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red capital strokes, some printed guide-letters. (Small repairs to title, last two lines of colophon erased, an occasional light stain.) Late 19th-century tan pigskin tooled in blind by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (joints starting to split). Provenance : inscriptions erased from title, a2 and below colophon -- Dr. J.A. Giles (Tregaskis bookseller's description dated July 1891). Koelhoff's edition of the Golden Legend , the popular collection of saints' lives, is the first to have appended to it the martyrologium of Usuardus. The colophon is dated 'in vigilia sanctissimorum trium Regum', interpreted by A. Labarre as 22 July, correcting previous interpretations of 5 January (cf. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1975, pp.77-80). C 6465 (Voragine only); HCR (Usardus only) 16111; BMC I, 229 (IB. 3615); CIBN J-96; Bod-inc J-060; Goff J-123.
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