The Golden Legend for Every Day of the Year. Lives of All the Saints Venerated by the Church. Volume I

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 2018
1. Bibliographic Data
Author
Jacobus de Voragine (traditional attribution)
Title
The Golden Legend for Every Day of the Year. Lives of All the Saints Venerated by the Church. Volume I
Statement of responsibility
Revised by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus
Place of publication
Barcelona ; Paris
Publisher
Sociedad Editorial La Maravilla ; Don Francisco Brachet
Series
Not identified
Printer
Narciso Ramírez
Date
1865
Imprint (isbd)
Barcelona : Sociedad Editorial La Maravilla ; Paris : Don Francisco Brachet, 1865
Language
Spanish
Edition
Fourth edition
Alternative title
Lives of All the Saints Venerated by the Church
Short title
The Golden Legend. Volume I
Original work
Legenda Aurea
Original language
Latin
Translator
Not identified
Print run
Not identified
2. Physical Description
Collation
Frontispiece, 681 pages
Illustrations
Yes; engraved frontispiece depicting Jesus Christ
Maps
Not identified
Format
Large quarto
Dimensions
27 × 19 cm
Printer's signatures
Not identified
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial paper
Watermarks
Not identified
Printing condition
Good; with abundant foxing, though the text remains complete and legible
3. Binding
Binding type
Half-leather binding with green cloth-covered boards
Materials
Brown leather on spine and corners; green decorative cloth on boards
Decoration
Gilt title on spine; black and gilt stamped decoration on boards
Spine
Partially restored or reconstructed; retains remnants of the earlier spine
Endpapers
Geometric patterned paper
Binding condition
Good
4. Contents
Main contents
Hagiographical compilation intended to provide the lives of the saints venerated by the Catholic Church for each day of the year
Subjects covered
Life of Christ, martyrs, confessors, virgins, Doctors of the Church, and other figures of the Christian calendar of saints
Characteristics
Based on the works of Ribadeneira, Croisset, Butler, Godescard, and other hagiographical authors
Purpose of the work
Religious instruction, devotional reading, and pastoral support for clergy and faithful readers
5. General Notes
Notes
Published with the approval and under the patronage of the Most Reverend Pantaleón Montserrat y Navarro, Bishop of Barcelona
Notes
Revised by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus
Notes
Includes a prologue by Father Ribadeneira
Notes
Contains the Life of Christ as an introduction to the lives of the saints
Notes
Corresponds to Volume I of a multi-volume work
6. Subjects
Subjects
Hagiography
Subjects
Christian saints
Subjects
Catholic Church
Subjects
Christian spirituality
Subjects
Religious literature
Subjects
Lives of saints
Subjects
Religious history
Subjects
Catholic devotion
7. Copy Record
Shelf mark
2018
Condition
Good
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Ownership marks
Not identified
Handwritten annotations
Not identified
Copy notes
Corresponds to Volume I of the 1865 edition. Preserves the original engraved frontispiece and an old half-leather binding with later spine restorations. Displays abundant foxing throughout the text block, although it remains structurally sound and entirely readable.