JACQUES DE VORAGINE. Lombardica historia. Cologne, [Ludwig von Renchen], 1485. In-folio of [303] (of 304) pages, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (18th century binding). Extremely rare incunabulum edition of the Golden Legend, one of the most famous medieval texts. This hagiographic compilation recounting the lives of around 150 Christian saints and martyrs was written in Latin between 1261 and 1266 by Jacques de Voragine, a Dominican friar and archbishop of Genoa. In the same year, Ludwig von Renchen also published a vernacular German edition of the Golden Legend. There are at least sixty known works by this printer from Renchen, near Freiburg im Breisgau; he was admitted as a bourgeois of Cologne in 1482 and was still in business in 1505. A rubricated copy, decorated with large red or blue initials. From the Marcellus Schlimovich library, with bookplate and stamp of the bequest to the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina (Colección Schlimovich, Incun. n°513). Without the last blank leaf; marginal spotting at head of first few leaves, first leaf previously restored, some worm damage to text, old marginal repairs, small loss in margin of last three leaves. Spine rebacked. ISTC ij00112000 - Copinger 6442 - Goff J-112 - Proctor 1277 - BMC I 267 - GW 14011.