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Title

Legenda aurea

Authors

• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Other related names

• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 434
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924866043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613741
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486604 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32805089

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1459

Place

Italy

Summary

An anonymous translation of the Golden Legend different from translation used in early printed editions. Description of G. Martini calls it "volgarizzamento del sec. XIV."

Notes

• Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
   
• Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

154 leaves : 228 x 155 (188 x 115) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 154 + i (modern paper); [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older foliation partly cut off in binding.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half calf; upper and lower cover detached.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; ruled in ink with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.

Script

Written in cursive humanist script.

Provenance

• Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 91.
   
• Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1963.
   
• Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
   
• Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
   
• S. Maria Angelorum, Ferrara.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--15th century

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Index of saints, f. 1r

Decorations

• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 5r
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 7v
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 7v
• fol. 7v — Illuminated Initial, Initial D, f. 7v
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial, Initial U, f. 7v