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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (ca 1230-1298). Legenda aurea . Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 6th May] 1478. Mezzo-median 2 o (230 x 170 mm). Collation : a-h 1 0 i 8 K k 1 0 L l 8 M 4 m 1 0 n 8 o-t 1 0 v x 8 y 1 0 z \\i \\j \\g 8 χ 2 . 266 leaves. 50 lines, double column. Gothic type 2:79. Capital spaces, some with printed guide-letters. (Portion of a1 blank cut away, rust hole on l7 catching a few letters, small stains near gutter on r5.6, a few intermittent wormholes occasionally catching letters, some mostly marginal pale dampstaining, heaviest at beginning and end.) Contemporary Italian blind-tooled panelled calf (some restoration along spine, later morocco lettering-pieces). Provenance : Hypolite La Suno, Franciscan (ownership signature at end) -- G. Samonati, Rome (inkstamps on pastedowns) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 March 1931) -- donated to SMS 6 December 1937. Jacobus de Voragine's "Golden Legend" 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. The total output from the press of Christophorus Arnoldus seems to have been less than a dozen editions, and have lasted only from 1472-79. BMC V, 206 (IB.19993); BSB-Ink. I-69; C 1645; Oates 1688; Pr 4216; Goff J-89.