Jacobus de Voragine (c.1230-1298)
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ID 1514538
Лот 2 | Jacobus de Voragine (c.1230-1298)
Оценочная стоимость
7000GBP £ 7 000 – 10 000
Golden Legend, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [France, early 14th century]
Saints and their miracles, martyrs and their martyrdoms: an attractive copy of one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages, from an interesting 18th-century French collection.
c. 200 × 150mm, i + 264 + ii leaves, complete, collation: 1–2212, pagination in 18th- or 19th-century ink next to the upper outer corner of the text i–iii, 1–525 used here, catchwords survive in most gatherings, 40 lines in two columns written in a small regular gothic script, ruled space: c. 135 x 105 mm, rubrics in red, running headings in red above each column, major sections introduced by large 5- to 9-line puzzle initials in blue and red with penwork flourishing in both colours at pp. i, 1, 143 (Resurrection), and 206 (‘Tempus peregrinationis’), three-line initials alternately blue flourished in red, or vice versa, introduce the lesser feasts and the etymologies of names etc., one-line initials and paraphs alternately blue or red (opening and closing leaves a little darkened, a few stains towards the end, some cockling, a few repairs). Sewn on five bands and bound in handsome 18th-century French polished dark red calf, the covers undecorated, the spine densely gilt, with an olive-green leather title piece lettered in gilt capitals ‘Legenda Aurea’, and a black leather one with ‘MS du XIV siecle’ at the foot, the edges of the leaves stained blue, marbled endpapers (pieces of adhesive tape on both covers).
Provenance:
(1) Pierre Goyet (1724–1794), numismatist, archaeologist, bibliophile, and canon of Villefranche-sur-Saone (north of Lyon), who died at the guillotine (on whom, and for a reproduction of his book label, see W. Poidebard et al., Armorial des bibliophiles de Lyonnais, Forez, Beaujolais et Dombres (Société des bibliophiles lyonnais, 1907), pp. 278–79): his book-label. Goyet’s library was sold in Lyon on 10 April 1809 at auction: the catalogue is extremely scarce.
(2) Unidentified 20th-century German-speaking dealer, with his typescript description stuck to the first flyleaf.
(3) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(4) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 28. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 10. Published in De Ricci, Census, II, p.1682, no 28.
Content:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, ‘Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas compilavit frater Jacobus nacione Januensis de ordine fratrum predicatorum. Universum tempus presentis uite in quatuor distinguitur [...] ab octavo pentecosten usque ad adventum domini. Explicit prologus super legendas sanctorum.’, p. i; ‘Incipiunt capitula tocius libri. De aduentu domini / De sancto andrea apostolo / [...] / De dedicatione ecclesie’, pp. i–1; main text: ‘De adventu domini. Adventus domini per quattuor septimanas agitur [...] vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Expliciunt legende sanctorum deo gratias’, pp.1–525.
Written in the 1250s or ’60s, the Golden Legend was one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages, for readily apparent reasons: it is a collection of nearly 200 stories about saints and their miracles, martyrs and their martyrdoms, as well as accounts of other church feasts, arranged in the order of the Church year and divided according to the liturgical seasons. Its popularity can be gauged by the fact that more than a thousand manuscript copies exist, and it was printed in more incunable editions than the Bible. It was also translated into many languages (including English, by William Caxton).
Literature
S. De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, II, 1961, p. 1682, no 28.
| Место происхождения: | Западная Европа, Франция, Европа |
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