JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca 1230-1298). Legenda aurea. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 19 December 1486. 2 o (271 x 196 mm.) 264 leaves. 47 lines and headline, double columns. Gothic types 1:160 (title and headlines), 2:91 a (text), 2:91 b (smaller headings). Capital spaces mostly with guide letters, rubricated with red Lombard initials, capital strokes and paragrapgh marks. (Small worm hole at beginning and end.) 16th-century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, sides panelled with a portrait of Charles V and dated 1588 (rebacked). Provenance : early ownership inscription and marginalia (cropped) -- Martin Weisbacher, 1726 (inscription on front free endpaper) -- Le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand (bookplate) -- J.M. Darnis (library mark on front paste-down). The period of activity of the printer known as the "Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg", 1481-1492 (with a few additional books printed between 1496 and 1502), fits largely between that of the two presses of Georg Husner, datable to 1473-1481, and 1495-1505. BMC I, 135 (IB. 1868); BSB-Ink. I-90; Goff J-117; Pr 608.
JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca 1230-1298). Legenda aurea. Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 19 December 1486. 2 o (271 x 196 mm.) 264 leaves. 47 lines and headline, double columns. Gothic types 1:160 (title and headlines), 2:91 a (text), 2:91 b (smaller headings). Capital spaces mostly with guide letters, rubricated with red Lombard initials, capital strokes and paragrapgh marks. (Small worm hole at beginning and end.) 16th-century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, sides panelled with a portrait of Charles V and dated 1588 (rebacked). Provenance : early ownership inscription and marginalia (cropped) -- Martin Weisbacher, 1726 (inscription on front free endpaper) -- Le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand (bookplate) -- J.M. Darnis (library mark on front paste-down). The period of activity of the printer known as the "Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg", 1481-1492 (with a few additional books printed between 1496 and 1502), fits largely between that of the two presses of Georg Husner, datable to 1473-1481, and 1495-1505. BMC I, 135 (IB. 1868); BSB-Ink. I-90; Goff J-117; Pr 608.
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