Yale Center for British Art

Title:
[Vitae sanctorum patrum]
Alternate Title(s):
Vitae patrum. German.
Published / Created:
[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the "Antichristus" (Henrich Eggestein?)], [approximately 1482]
Physical Description:
[4], i-CC.xxx leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0253
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue

This work is attributed to Saint Jerome.

Leaves numbered on both sides.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00222000

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 8609*

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H222

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M50968

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page168

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4224

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0253: Imperfect: leaves XXXIIII, LXXIII, and CXLVIII only, each with a woodcut illustration. Uncolored. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Saints. | Hermits. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.