Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0529Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 2014 1506: Variant: signature p5v is blank (without the metal cut of the Last Judgment). Bookplate: Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Stamp: Vladimir Korenefe. Dealer's description pasted in at front. Rubricated. Illustrations are hand-colored. Scant manuscript annotations. From the library of Bernard M. Rosenthal. Binder's stamp on case: Bound by J. Desmonts, J. Macdonald Co., Norwalk, Conn.Written by Bertoldus.Imprint from reference sources.Copinger gives date as "ca. 1485"; BSB Ink as "ca. 1488"; BM STC German 1455-1600 gives "1490?"Series of illustrations depicting the life of Christ, consisting of 24 full-page woodcuts and 14 metal cuts, the latter in the dotted manner and with foliate borders. In some copies signature p5v is blank (without the metal cut of the Last Judgment).Initial spaces.Signatures: [a]⁸ b-o⁸ p¹⁰.Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4172Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. I, page 199Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-503Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00503000Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 1008Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 81Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, 395Schramm, A. Inkunable-Drucker, VIII, page 4, 17BAC Leaf Collection no. 0529: Imperfect: 27 non-consecutive leaves. Woodcuts are uncolored. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Jesus Christ -- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800. | Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800. | Rosenthal, Bernard M. -- Ownership. | Vershbow, Arthur -- Bookplate. | Vershbow, Charlotte -- Bookplate. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.