[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], [29th November 1481-23d August 1482]
Physical Description:
4 volumes ([164]; [340]; [246]; [362] leaves) ; 42 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Leaf Collection no. 0313Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN ZZi 2010: A few manuscript notes in margins. Slightly water-stained and worm-eaten. In part I, ff. 1-4 (table of contents) are misbound after f. 164. Part I, f. 5 (carmen panegyricam) wanting.BEIN ZZi 2010: Part III bound with part I. Old stamped pigskin binding; the clasps are wanting; the joints are reinforced with fragments of vellum manuscript, of which two (in part II) bear the dates: "Basilee xyj⁰. tzt Junij. Anno domini millesimoquadringe[n]tes[imo ...]" and "Montag nach sanct Gallen tag nach Cristi unsere lieben herrs gepurt viertzehenhundert vnd newntzig jare" respectively.Large initial on f. 6a of part I painted in red and blue; a few initials in part I and III supplied alternately in red and blue; otherwise, the capital spaces are blank; some pages have red paragraph-marks and initial-strokes.BEIN ZZi 2010: Except for these peculiarities, this copy agrees with that of Pollard; for differences from Hain's and Pellechet's copies see Pollard II, 422, to which the following should be added: Pellechet gives for part III, 244 ff., of which 2 ff. are blank; Copinger gives for part I, 168 ff.; for Part III, the same number of ff. as Pollard but only 2 blanks; for part IV, 360 ff., including one blank. Also the position of the blank ff. varies.BEIN ZZi 2010: Bound with: 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zzi 2010.Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00383000Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A383Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 643*Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 871Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 422BAC Leaf Collection no. 0313: Imperfect: three leaves only, the incipit leaves to parts I, II, and IV, each with large illustrated initials, the first two burnished in gold. With minor marginal manuscript notes, in a contemporary hand. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Theology -- Early works to 1800. | Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600–1500. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.