Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [German] Leben der Heiligen: Winterteil und Sommerteil

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298, Pruss, Johann, 1446 or 1447-1510, printer · [Strasbourg : Johann Pruss] · 19 pictures

The Legenda aurea is a medieval collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine, printed in German by Johann Pruss in Strasbourg around 1500 for lay readers. Its woodcut panels show saints in scenes of martyrdom, preaching and miracles, with text blocks in blackletter beside them. A designer might take from them the compact framed narrative panels, the blackletter columns and the expressive gestures of crowded, action-filled woodcut figures.

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