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JACOBUS de VORAGINE

Legenda opus aureum quod Legenda Sanctorum vulgo nuncupatur, & nõ mediocri diligentia fratris Claudii de Rota (...)
Lyon
Hector Penet et Nicolas Petit
1535
€500 - €700

4to, [8] - 144 ff, title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device and beautiful woodcut decorated border. Printed in 2 columns in gothic type, ill. with circa 200 small woodcut vignettes (saints, martyrs...). Condition: old stamp erased on title page, marginal damp staining in the lower corner, brown stains in the last 4 lvs, wormhole in the corner of ff. 91-118. Modern vellum binding, spine gilt

The legenda aurea was one of the most popular and influential books in the later medieval Western world; it circulated widely, and was repeatedly translated into many vernacular languages. Scarce, not in Adams, not in Baudrier, not in Machiels

Incunabula Catholic devotion