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Creator:
Methodius, of Olympus, Saint, -311
Title(s):
Methodius primũ olympiade : et postea Tyrii ciuitatum episcopus. ... multa edidit documẽta et presertim de mundi creatione eidem in carcere reuelata ...
Additional Title(s):

De revelatione

Revelationes
Published/Created:
[Basel] : Finit Basilee per Michahelem Furter, Anno 1.4.9.8. Nonis Januarijs.
Physical Description:
68 unnumbered leaves : 61 illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0866
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Caption title. Below caption title is woodcut with its caption: De reuelatione facta ab angelo beato methodio in carcere detẽto.
Gothic type (Proctor 7738); 36-38 lines.
Imprint from colophon; date rendered with "4" inverted.
Signatures: a-g⁸h-i⁶.
Dedicatory preface by Sebastian Brant ... "opera et vigilantia Sebastiani. Brant"--Colophon.
"Incipit Tractatus super Methodium qui in se continebit quinque capitula quorum primus est oc possessions terre sancte" by Wolfgang Aytinger, named at the conclusion, sig. d5-i6, supplements the Revelations with discussions of the conflict between Christendom and Islam and of the schisms and abuses in the church, and prophesies the destruction of the Turks.
Illustrations: 61 woodcuts, including 6 repeats. For reproductions, cf. Schramm, A., Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, XXII, 561-614, 1141. Some initials (over half) supplied in spaces provided.
Incunabula short title catalogue, im00524000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M524
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 11121
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M23059
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, p. 785 (IA37805)
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4648
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0862: Imperfect: 6 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
History, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Islam and Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
Prophecies -- Early works to 1800.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Furter, Michael, -1517, printer.
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521, editor.
Aytinger, Wolfgang. Tractatus super Methodium.
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