BEIN 2022 +2: Rubricated throughout, with hand-colored initials in black and red. Manuscript Low German-Latin vocabulary in 15th-century hand on first and final pages. Some marginal manuscript annotations.

BEIN 2022 +2: Imperfect: Double impression of y3v.y6r renders some text illegible. Some headlines bled in quire Y.

BEIN 2022 +2: Provenance: Armorial bookplate reading, "Nil sine numine Ioannes Weld de Leagram"; bookplate of Estelle Doheny; Christie's sale, 1987 October 22, lot 28.

BEIN 2022 +2: Binding: Blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, brass catches. Parchment manuscript front and rear pastedowns, both lifted. Front pastedown fragment of unidentified charter. Rear pastedown composite of charter used in front pastedown (fragment); 12th-century breviary in gothic bookhand (fragment), presenting text for third Sunday after Advent; and unidentified grammatical text in anglicana (fragment), including declension of "haec manus."

Caption title from a1r.

Author from incipit (a1r).

Date of publication from explicit on recto of final leaf (2l6r). Place of publication and printer from Goff; place also inferable from Epigramma in laudem urbis Coloniae, which follows date.

Facing versos and rectos are foliated together, with some errors. That is, signatures a1r, a1v, a2r, a2v, a3r, a3v correspond to folios 1r, 2v, 2r, 3v, 3r, 4v, respectively, and so on.

Signatures: pi⁶ a-e⁸ f¹⁰ g-z⁸ A-S⁸ T⁶ V¹⁰ X-Z⁸ 2a-2k⁸ 2l⁶.

First and final pages blank.

Polain, while miscounting the leaves ("6 ffnc., 457 ffc."), correctly notes: "Le nombre des légendes ajoutées ici [beginning at leaf [CCXXvij]] est bien plus considérable que dans les autres éditions; la table en énumère 204."

Includes indexes.

Incipit: Prefatio sup[er] lege[n]das sanctoru[m] [per] anni circuitu[m] venientiu[m] quas co[m]pilauit frater Jacob[us] de Voragine ordinis predicato[rum] quonda[m] ep[iscopu]s Ianue[n]sis

Incipit: Prefatio super legendas sanctorum per anni circuitum venientium quas compilauit frater Jacobus de Voragine ordinis predicatorum quondam episcopus Ianuensis

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 197 (IB.3036)

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-108

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00108000

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 2197

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 6434

Christian hagiography > Early works to 1800.

Christian saints > Biography > Early works to 1800.

Christian saints > Legends > Early works to 1800.

Annotations (Provenance) - 15th century.

Incunabula.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Germany Cologne.