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May'80
Madliger - Schwab
gift (Dr Eichenberger)
Jacobus de Voragine ( 1230 - 1298 )
Leban der Heiligen ( German )
I. Sommerteil und II. Winterteil * [inserted]St. Jerome Blatt. 8 Sept.30[end inserted]
Augsburg : Gunther Zainer
I. 27 April 1472 II. 25 Oct. 1471 folio
Goff J 156 HC 9968 BMC II 3 17(I) 127 Holschnitte von 101 Stocken
[inserted]Frankfurtam M. Munchen HSB(II) Wien HB(1 & 2) UNCaL(II)
Cop PML. Bibliothek Otto Schafer #180 Sommerteil
St. Ambrose (Dec 7) 397 AD April 4(died) - St. Wendel (Oct 21)
[inserted]LC(R) I. #38[end inserted] Sommerteil. folio , 211 leaves , 2 col. 50 lines , 292x 179 mm
[inserted]Blatt 193 St. Brigitta Blatt 67 St Othman
Type 118 (Gothic type used from 1471 owards) Upwards
of 120 different column cuts, also a lo line woodcut S (Ib)
to a marginal border on 2a.
Kraus Cat . 93 #72
First edition in German of the Legenda aurea, & apparently
the first ed. in any language. The 1st Augsburg illustrated
[inserted]2 owner's illustrated book[end inserted]
book & among the earliest of all German illustrated books -
preceded only by the (seven?) extremely rare Pfister
books - woodcuts, all copies of which are in public collections.
- Luther deneounced The Golden Legend as immoral &
preachers in the Reformation period called the Tales
Legends of Iron for they said they were written by
: a man - an iron mouth & leaden heart."
G. Zainer - died 1478. At the beginning of each of the 234(?)
biographies there is a small (generally 77 x 70mm) wood cut.
Woodcuts from books of the 15th C
Winterteil St Michel (Sept. 29) - St. Eufrosina (Feb 11)
- 234 biographies. Blatt 3 St. Jerome (Jersnimus) Blatt 14 Remigius
[inserted]W.L. Schreiber Z240.9 S3 f Ref[end inserted]G. Zainer (1471 Winterteil) printed the Illustrations first
in the space calculated for receiving them & after wards the
text. . This double printing he carried out with so such care.
that very few of the 131 woodcuts are at all out of place &
never in all copies . In 1472 he brought out the
Sommerteil , the 127 illustrations of which were printed
simultaneously - the text.