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Title(s):
Historia Calumnie nouercalis que septem sapientu[m] inscribitur : q[uae] ab ijs sit refutata jncipit.
Additional Title(s):

Historia Calumniae novercalis quae septem sapientium inscribitur

Historia septem sapientium Romae

Septem sapientes Romae. Latin.
Published/Created:
Antwerp : Gerard Leeu, 6 November 1490.
Physical Description:
56 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0590
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17250300
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from caption on title page on leaf a1 verso.
Imprints from colophon on leaf k3 verso, which reads in full: Explicit historia calumnie nouarcalis : impressa antwerpie per me Gerardu[m] leeu Anno domini M. CCCC.xc. vi. die mensis nouembris.
Version revised for the present edition (from the preface); see ISTC and Bod-inc.
Eleven full-page woodcut illustrations throughout, first used in the Dutch edition by Claes Leeu, Antwerp, 1488 (ISTC is00450250), and then in the Latin edition by Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, Cologne, 1490 (ISTC is00449000), with the exception of a new woodcut for the last illustration.
Woodcut initials.
Signatures: a-h⁶ i-k⁴. Last leaf k4 blank. First leaf a1 and second leaf of each gathering unsigned; leaf k1 signed "i j."
Incunabula short title catalogue, is00448600
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 12854
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, page 195
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0590: Imperfect: 14 leaves only, leaves a1, a2, a4, a5, a6, b1, b3, e2, e4, f1, g2, g4, g6, and i1, all with large woodcut illustrations. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Seven sages of Rome.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Leeu, Gerard, approximately 1445–1493, printer.
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  • Preface, a1r; title page, with woodcut, a1v; Septem sapientes Romae, a2r-k3v; [Note addressed to Gerard Leeu by the anonymous editor of the text], k3v; colophon, k3v.

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