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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. [Legenda aurea sanctorum], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 11 August 1478. 2° (411 x 281mm.). 272 leaves (of 274, lacks ff.1&2), 50 lines, double column, gothic letter, fine painted decoration at head and foot of verso of f.54, at the foot incorporating a coat-of-arms and a noble helmet, a similar decoration at the head of the recto of f.184, initials and paragraph marks supplied alternately in red and blue, rubricated, the life of Saint Appollonia written in a contemporary hand on last (blank) page. (Last leaf repaired at foot with loss of 2 or 3 words of colophon, a few minor spots and stains). 19th-century half calf. (Slightly worn). Copinger 6414=6413; BMC II, 416; Goff J-90.
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