Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Molitor, Ulrich, active 1470-1501

Title:

De laniis [sic] et phitonicis mulieribus : Teutonice Vnholden vel Hexen.

Alternate Title(s):

De laniis et phitonicis mulieribus

Published / Created:

[Reutlingen] : [Johann Otmar], [not before 10 Jan. 1489]

Physical Description:

[56] p. : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0558
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BEIN Zi 2717.5: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume.

Written in dialogue form.

Imprint from ISTC.

Text dated and signed at end (fol. d5v (p.[54])): ... anno d[omi]ni .m.cccc.lxxxix. die decima Ianuarij ... Vlricus Molitoris de Consta[n]tia decreto[rum] doctor [et]c[etera].

Introductory letter addressed to Sigmund, Archduke of Austria.

The last leaf blank.

Seven full-page woodcuts in text. The same woodcuts appear in the German translation printed: Reutlingen: [Michel Greyff, not before 10 January 1489] (Hain 11540). Cf. BM 15th cent.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶

Fol. [b1] signed ©1, [c1] signed 1.

35 lines. Types: 170, lines 1-2 of title and headings on fol. a2 (p. [3]); 75, line 3 of title and text. Capital space on p. [3].

Hind, A.M. Introd. to a hist. of woodcut, 1935, v. 2, p. 311, 320

Incunabula short title catalogue, im00795000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M795

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 11536*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M25182

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 587 (IA. 10727)

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4785

Stillwell, M.B. Awakening interest in science during the first century of printing, 1450-1550, M-683

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0558: Imperfect: leaves a2, a4, a7, b2, and b4 only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800. | Demonology -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)

Contributors:

Sigmund, Archduke of Austria, 1427–1496. | Otmar, Johann, active 1482–1514, printer.