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Jacobus de Voragine (1230-1298).
Leben der Heiligen [German]
Sommerteil and Winterteil (Sweden)
Augsburg: Johann Bamla "St. Brigida" CLV
I) 4 Oct. 1480 II) 26 June 1480
folio (30-31 lines 254x178mm) 380ff.
Ref: Goff J158 H. 9973 Not in BMC, Schreiber W.L.
Cop: HEHL(I) Schranm III p.20826 4303
Munchen HSB (I. eativ.)
Bamlers earliest book to a precise date-22 April 1472;
lis latest-13 April 1495. His output during the last
12 years of this period was less than 1/5 of that of his
first 11. [inserted] German Fairfax [end inserted] Das register- Von sent Amrosio [inserted] Died on April 4, 397 [end inserted] Dec. 7
the last being S. Wendel. Oct 21
[inserted] Murray #432 [end inserted] Bamlers 2nd edition - Summerteil - seldom found together to
the Winter part [inserted] Advent to Easter [end inserted] Besides the large frontis piece there are 97 to repeats to a total 127
outline cuts in text from 65 to 80x75mm - first used in
the 1475 edition. (used the same woodcut which G. Zainer had used (1471-2)
The patron siants of Augsburd (Ulrich + Afra) + Nuremberg
(Sebald) have long chapter devoted to them.
-the 5th edition of Leben der Heiligen - used the same
woodcuts which Zainer had used.
J. Bamler printed almost exclusively in the German language +
as a consequence, he used rather big heavy typer (archtypes
which he designed himself from manuscript models)
-printed the earliest illustrated book of the Crusades (1482)
Lives of British Saints BX 4657G7B3V. (feast - Feb. 1)
-St. Brigid of Ireland (c 469-528) the Lige of St. Brigid
written in the 9th C represents her as a new type of Irish
woman, the Christian Saint. St. Brigid, St. Patrick + St.
Colmcille are the 3 patron saints of Ireland.
-The cult of St. Brigid in Wales, Cornwall, Devon + Brittany
belonged originally to these portions of land that were
colonized by the Irish in the 5 + 6th C.