Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501
Title:
Guillelmi Caonrsin [sic] Rhodiorum Uicecancellarij: obsidionis Rhodie urbis descriptio.
Alternate Title(s):
Guillelmi Caonrsin Rhodiorum Uicecancellarij: obsidionis Rhodie urbis descriptio
Published / Created:
Impressum vlme : p[er] iohanne[m] Reger, Anno d[omi]ni &c. Mccccxcvj. Die. xxiiij Octob[ris]. [24 October 1496]
Physical Description:
[60] leaves ; ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0800
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi +2586: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Copy of the variation with the correct "impulerunt" (fol. 2a, line 5) and "sacri" (fol. 59b, last line), and without device on fol. 58a.

Title [of the first tract] from incipit at head of leaf a2r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf h6r.

Signatures: a-f⁸ g-h⁶.

With 36 full page woodcuts. Also woodcut initials.

Bodleian 15th cent., C-049

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00113000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C113

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4369*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6003

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 542

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3667

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0800: Imperfect: three leaves only, d1, e7, and f7. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

A collection of twelve tracts by Guillaume Caoursin dealing with the history of Rhodes in the 15th century, including the 1480 siege of Rhodes. For full breakdown of contents, cf. Bodleian 15th cent.
Subject Terms:
Rhodes (Greece : Island) -- Early works to 1800. | Rhodes (Greece : Island) -- History -- Siege, 1480 -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Reger, Johann, active 1486–1499, printer.