Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1230-1298).

Legenda aurea sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. [The Golden Legend.]

      Basel: [Michael Wearsler], 1490. Small quarto, old calf, [265] leaves. This is an early edition of Jacobus’ Golden Legend, on of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages. It is a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church. Jacobus was beatified by Pius VII in 1816. The covers of this volume are detached, and it lacks the following folios: blank, [1-14], 15-27 and 265.