Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350
Title:
Horalogiu[m] [sic] deuotionis.
Alternate Title(s):
Horalogiū devotionis
Published / Created:
[Cologne : Ulrich Zell, ca. 1488]
Physical Description:
[244] p. : ill. ; 12 cm (16mo)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0529
Yale 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, 4172

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. I, page 199

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-503

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00503000

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 1008

Short-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 81

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, 395

Schramm, A. Inkunable-Drucker, VIII, page 4, 17

BAC 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.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Annotations (Provenance) -- 15th century. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Zell, Ulrich, -1503, printer. | Desmonts, J., binder. | James MacDonald Co., binder.