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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (?1230-?1298). Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, in Dutch: Passionael: Somer- ende Winterstuc. Delft: Hendrik Eckert, 1499-1500.
Two volumes bound in one, 2o (262 x 187 mm). Collation Somerstuk (bound first): A-Z6 AA-MM6 NN4; 214 leaves. Collation Winterstuck: [*]2 a-r6 \\i6 f (without cross)6 s-z6 76 \\j6 aa-ee6 ff8 (lacking [*]1 and [*], title and table, and final blank ff8); 205 (of 208) leaves, the last blank. 41 lines, double column. 201 woodcuts, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within 3/4 border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I (Winter) and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II (Summer); 2 to 7-line initials in blue and red, capital strokes in red. (Somerstuk bound before Winterstuck, lacking title and table in second part, title to second part a bit soiled, some minor marginal soiling.) 16th-century Dutch blind-rolled calf over wooden boards. Provenance: Royal Library of The Hague (duplicate stamp on first title); Pierre Hollier LaRousse (bookplate); M.G. (bookplate); acquired from Davis and Orioli, 1959.
Eckert's first edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionae, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. See Fairfax Murray German 436 (second Eckert edition); Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; not in BM/STC Dutch; Oates 3382; Rosenwald 508; Goff J-143.
Two volumes bound in one, 2o (262 x 187 mm). Collation Somerstuk (bound first): A-Z6 AA-MM6 NN4; 214 leaves. Collation Winterstuck: [*]2 a-r6 \\i6 f (without cross)6 s-z6 76 \\j6 aa-ee6 ff8 (lacking [*]1 and [*], title and table, and final blank ff8); 205 (of 208) leaves, the last blank. 41 lines, double column. 201 woodcuts, comprising 84 (65 column-size, 11 quarter-page either within 3/4 border or flanked by 2 architectural cuts, and 8 half-page) woodcuts in part I (Winter) and 117 (100 column-size, 4 quarter-page with either border or flanking cuts, 13 half-page) woodcuts in part II (Summer); 2 to 7-line initials in blue and red, capital strokes in red. (Somerstuk bound before Winterstuck, lacking title and table in second part, title to second part a bit soiled, some minor marginal soiling.) 16th-century Dutch blind-rolled calf over wooden boards. Provenance: Royal Library of The Hague (duplicate stamp on first title); Pierre Hollier LaRousse (bookplate); M.G. (bookplate); acquired from Davis and Orioli, 1959.
Eckert's first edition, with the influential woodcuts by the second Delft woodcutter. After their first appearance in a 1487 edition of the Passionae, printed at Delft by Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer (IDL 2588), they were used in later Delft editions, and in Eckert's Antwerp editions (Conway, Woodcutters of the Netherlands, p.117). Twenty-eight blocks of the original series were replaced in the 1489 edition, and, with two exceptions, they remained in the series used by Eckert. ALL DUTCH EDITIONS ARE RARE ON THE MARKET. See Fairfax Murray German 436 (second Eckert edition); Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1193; not in BM/STC Dutch; Oates 3382; Rosenwald 508; Goff J-143.