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Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, Venice, Andreas de
Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, Venice, Andreas de
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Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, collation: a-z8 ⁊8 A-L8 M10, double column, 290 ff., 45 lines and headline, Gothic type, incipit on a1r printed in red, initial spaces, x1 short neat tear just within text, without loss, mostly marginal water-staining, occasionally encroaching on text, some spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, early rubricated vellum manuscript ff. used as endpapers, contemporary wooden boards, rebacked in later (but to style) calf in compartments, lacking clasps, 4to (228 x 164mm.), Venice, Andreas de Paltasichis for Octavianus Scotus, 17 May, 1482.

⁂ Rare copy at auction of this collection of hagiographies, which is the first book from the second press of Andreas de Paltasichis. It started production three years after the closure of his first press of 1477-1479, which had printed six books.

Literature: BMC V 353; Goff J-101; BSB-Ink I-82; GW M11341; ISTC ij00101000.
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Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, Venice, Andreas de

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