Chronecken der Sassen, In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492]
- Title(s):
- Chronecken der Sassen.
- Additional Title(s):
- Text begins on leaf [a]2r: In dem anbegyune schop got hyemel vnd erde ...
- Published/Created:
- [Mainz] : Geprent Peter Schoffer van gernszheim in der eddelen stat Mencz ..., In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492].
- Physical Description:
- [568] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0667Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1306759
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN 1971 937: Imperfect: ff. 4-5 and 282 wanting; fol. 1 (t.p.) misbound following fol. 8; fol. 284 (colophon) misbound at front of text; ff. 9 and 16 reversed; a few leaves bled or torn. For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Imprint from colophon.
A short section is devoted to the history of the world, beginning with the creation and biblical history, but the main chronicle is confined to the account of the Saxon race, their wars with other Teutonic tribes and the Romans, the foundation of their towns, etc.
Attributed to Konrad Bote by GW, also attributed to Hermann Bote.
In Low German.
Colophon and printer's device printed in red.
Woodcut illustrations: large woodcut of a genealogical tree on title page and more than 1200 illustrations of various sizes from full-page to several small cuts on one page, with many repeats in whole or part. The woodcuts, in many cases made of sectional blocks, include representations of cities, a battle scene repeated nineteen times, royal persons, bishops, banners, shields of arms, and long woodcut marginal initials. The initial of the wood-engraver h is on cuts "Ridegast" (cf. i. no. 119 verso) on the halberd, "Somericheborch," on a rock at lower left corner (cf. 1. 129 verso); the battle scene hears the initials h r on the blades of two halberds at upper left corner. See: Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, III, 1428; Muther 638; Morgan 33.
Signatures: [a-h]⁸ i-z⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴.
Final page blank.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00488000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C488
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4990
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4963
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 37
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3531
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0667: Imperfect: 32 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Chronology, Historical -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Lower Saxony (Germany) -- History -- Early works to 1800.Saxons -- History -- Early works to 1800.Saxony (Germany) -- History -- Early works to 1800.Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.World history -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Printer's devices (Publishing) -- Germany -- 15th century.
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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