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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (?1230-?1298). Opus aureum & legend insifnes sanctorum sanctarumque. Lyon: Jean de La Place for Constantin Fradin, 25 April, 1521.
4° (249 x 171mm). With final blank. Title and last leaf of index printed in red and black, 4-part woodcut historiated border and publisher’s device on title, numerous woodcuts of saints’ images, ornamental initials. (Minor marginal repairs in title, some light browning, occasional staining, one causing tiny hole, repaired short marginal wormtrack in quires e-g.) Roman binding of c. 1540-50: red goatskin over thin pasteboard tooled in blind and gilt, central panel of intersecting lozenges, fleuron at corners, central medallion lettered LEGE / NDE SA / NCTO on front and 6-pointed star on back, cinquefoil in spine compartments, gilt edges (missing 4 fore-edge ties, corners and spine ends repaired); modern maroon morocco folding case. Provenance: 16th-century Italian annotations in some margins and on rear flyleaves.
4° (249 x 171mm). With final blank. Title and last leaf of index printed in red and black, 4-part woodcut historiated border and publisher’s device on title, numerous woodcuts of saints’ images, ornamental initials. (Minor marginal repairs in title, some light browning, occasional staining, one causing tiny hole, repaired short marginal wormtrack in quires e-g.) Roman binding of c. 1540-50: red goatskin over thin pasteboard tooled in blind and gilt, central panel of intersecting lozenges, fleuron at corners, central medallion lettered LEGE / NDE SA / NCTO on front and 6-pointed star on back, cinquefoil in spine compartments, gilt edges (missing 4 fore-edge ties, corners and spine ends repaired); modern maroon morocco folding case. Provenance: 16th-century Italian annotations in some margins and on rear flyleaves.
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