Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Plenarium Epistolarum et Evangeliorum.

Alternate Title(s):

Bible. Epistles and Gospels, Liturgical. German. 1474.

Published / Created:

[Augsburg] : [Johann Bämler], [20 Sept. 1474]

Physical Description:

167, 191 leaves ; 300 x 205 mm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0107
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

28 lines; Haebler, type 1 (140 G).

Incunabula short title catalogue, ie00073000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, E73

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 2318

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M34063

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

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4947

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0107: Imperfect: five cuttings of hand-colored woodcuts. The woodcuts depict: the Resurrection; Christ restoring sight to a blind man; the incredulity of Thomas; the parable of the laborer in the vineyard; Christ sleeping in the boat. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Bible. Epistles and Gospels, Liturgical -- Commentaries. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions) | Cuttings (partial works) | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Bämler, Johann, approximately 1430–1503, printer.