Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century

Title:

[Hie hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori wie Troÿa die kostliche Stat erstöret ward]

Alternate Title(s):

Historia destructionis Troiae. German

Published / Created:

[Augusburg] : [Johann Bämler], [not before 24 April 1474]

Physical Description:

[144] leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm (folio)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0106
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Description based on entry in Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.

Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-g⁸ h¹² i-q⁸ r¹⁰].

Includes 67 woodcut illustrations, 17 of which are repeated.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00775900

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5514

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7233

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II 332

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4131

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0106: Imperfect: a single leaf. With a hand-colored woodcut on the verso depicting figures kneeling before a temple. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Werther, Frederick -- 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions) | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Bämler, Johann, approximately 1430–1503, printer.