Jacobus, de Voragine

Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sa[n]ctorum appellatur.

      [Arge[n]tine: {Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)}, 1489]. Small folio (27 cm). [260 of 264] ff. Georg Husner, popularly known as "the Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg," produced several editions of the Legenda aurea, the most famous late medieval/early Renaissance compilation of biographies of Christian saints. The first appeared in 1485, and this is apparently the first of a number of page for page reprints. The imprint information is from the colophon on H5r.  This is an uncommon edition in the U.S, though heavily held in Europe; Goff and ISTC locate only two copies (in U.S.), this being the deaccessioned copy of one of those two! The text is printed in double-column format in gothic type. In this copy, virtually all of the initials are nicely accomplished in red or blue. Copinger, II, 6452; ISTC ij00122000; Proctor 618; Goff J122. 19th-century quarter German calf with black mottled paper sides. Various waterstaining throughout, with other stray stains; copy missing first two and final two leaves of text, and the leaves at front and back remargined (with some others repaired). Priced according to faults, not pleasures!