[Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [between 1465 and 1480]
Physical Description:
[28] pages ; 21 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0000Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and imprint from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.An example of Dutch prototypography, one of several dozen schoolbooks, religious, and humanistic works printed circa 1470, in closely related types, but without indication of place, printer, or date. These were previously attributed to Laurens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and erroneously thought to predate works printed by Johannes Gutenberg.Extent from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.Saliceto or Doctrinal type, 27-line edition.Incunabula short title catalogue, id00321000Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D321Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 8746Kronenberg, M.E. Campbell's Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XV. siècle, 633 (15)Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, 762Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 3299BAC Leaf Collection no. 0000: Imperfect: fragment of a single leaf, on vellum. Formerly used in the binding of a 1474 account book at Haarlem Cathedral (see Werther manuscript notes). This leaf was cut by the binder into several narrow strips, now reassembled, with loss of text along one side. With two initials supplied in red. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500. | Werther, Frederick -- 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.