Lot 31
Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, Venice, Antonius de Strata, de Cremona and Marcus Catanellus, 1480.
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, collation: a10 b-p8 q-r6 ?6 s-u8 x6 y8 ?6, double column, 184 ff., the first blank, 49 lines,Gothic type, large first initial in red and blue with marginal flourish, smaller initials and paragraph-marks in red, final f. holed and repaired verso with loss of several words, marginal hole to preceding f., a few very small wormholes within text, water-stained, 19th century limp marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, folio (261 x 183mm.), Venice, Antonius de Strata, de Cremona and Marcus Catanellus, 1 July, 1480.
⁂ Rare at auction.
Literature: BMC V, 292; Goff J95; BSB-Ink I-77.
Description
Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, collation: a10 b-p8 q-r6 ?6 s-u8 x6 y8 ?6, double column, 184 ff., the first blank, 49 lines,Gothic type, large first initial in red and blue with marginal flourish, smaller initials and paragraph-marks in red, final f. holed and repaired verso with loss of several words, marginal hole to preceding f., a few very small wormholes within text, water-stained, 19th century limp marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, folio (261 x 183mm.), Venice, Antonius de Strata, de Cremona and Marcus Catanellus, 1 July, 1480.
⁂ Rare at auction.
Literature: BMC V, 292; Goff J95; BSB-Ink I-77.
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