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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Der Heiligen Leben. Sommerteil. Urach: Konrad Fyner, 12 November 1481.
Volume II (Summer part, only), 2o (314 x 219 mm). 224 of 242 leaves, 1/3-31/4 foliated i-ccxxxx (lacking fols. 16, 36, 49, 54, 55, 69, 73, 76, 90, 91, 100, 113, 116, 121, 144, 180, 182, 197). 44 lines (variable). Gothic types: 3:96b (text), 120(115) headings. Numerous hand-colored 5-line woodcut initials, hand-colored woodcut border on 1/3r and 108 of 127 WOODCUTS FULLY COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, mostly 78 x 78 mm. (Fol. 1 torn and repaired, affecting text, several other repaired tears, mostly marginal, some blank margins renewed especially fols. 97-99, 112, affecting a few letters on fol. 97, some light marginal soiling.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards by the ULM WORKSHOP OF DINCKMUT/MANCZ ca. 1481-85, the covers divided by quadruple fillets into a frame filled with rosette tools, corners stamped with lamb, and a central panel divided by quadruple fillets into four triangular compartments, stamped with floral tool, enclosed by a border of a "Drachenrolle" (Kyriss 126), 2 brass clasps, catchplates lettered "manc" (one clasp renewed), paste-downs of printer's waste (binding rubbed and darkened). Provenance: Engelshofen, Johann Christoph (1555-1626), (? ownership inscription on lower paste-down "Johannes Christophorus Ab Engelshouen, 1589"). -- H. Legel (bookplate).
The fine woodcut illustrations were commissioned for Fyner's edition of the Heiligen Leben. Muther praised the quality of the woodcut illustrations especially for the depiction of figures and landscape. Hind calls the numerous woodcut illustrations "of considerable spirit."
An EXTREMELY RARE EDITION, no copy in the British Library, no copy listed in ABPC in the past several decades and only one copy (a fragment of 126 leaves) in the United States (Goff).
Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea was one of the most popular collections of saints' lives in the later Middle Ages. It survives in a large number of manuscripts and in more than 100 incunable editions in Latin or in vernacular translations. Although the basic cycle of feasts seems to have remained the same, additions and alterations were made to serve the interests of each region or audience, thus customizing individual manuscripts and editions to an extent that remains to be investigated. Der heiligen Leben, has most commonly been catalogued under the rubrics of Jacobus de Voragine. The Winter and Summer parts have separate manuscript and printing traditions.
BSB Ink. H-16; Goff J-159; H 9974; Muther 761; Hind p. 320; For a similar binding see: Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten 12; Amelung Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten 100-104.
Volume II (Summer part, only), 2
The fine woodcut illustrations were commissioned for Fyner's edition of the Heiligen Leben. Muther praised the quality of the woodcut illustrations especially for the depiction of figures and landscape. Hind calls the numerous woodcut illustrations "of considerable spirit."
An EXTREMELY RARE EDITION, no copy in the British Library, no copy listed in ABPC in the past several decades and only one copy (a fragment of 126 leaves) in the United States (Goff).
Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea was one of the most popular collections of saints' lives in the later Middle Ages. It survives in a large number of manuscripts and in more than 100 incunable editions in Latin or in vernacular translations. Although the basic cycle of feasts seems to have remained the same, additions and alterations were made to serve the interests of each region or audience, thus customizing individual manuscripts and editions to an extent that remains to be investigated. Der heiligen Leben, has most commonly been catalogued under the rubrics of Jacobus de Voragine. The Winter and Summer parts have separate manuscript and printing traditions.
BSB Ink. H-16; Goff J-159; H 9974; Muther 761; Hind p. 320; For a similar binding see: Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten 12; Amelung Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten 100-104.