Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0255Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
L. 2a: Die bo[r]n der ewy / ger wijsheyt dat / woe[r]t gaedes in / dẽ hogesten spri / ket ...L. 543b: ... Dat boeck der hemeliker apenbaringe sunt / Johannes des Apostels ende Ewangelisten: / ende daer mede dat gantze boeck der gotliker / schrifften die Bybel: hefft hijer ein selich einde / daer van gaede fy danck. loff: ere glorie / in ewycheit Amen.Incunabula short title catalogue gives publication and printing information as: [Bartholomaeus de Unkel and Heinrich Quentell, forJohann Helmann and Arnold Salmonster in Cologne and Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, about 1478-79].Gothic type (Proctor 1252); 2 columns, 57 lines. With headlines and initial indicators; without catchwords, foliation, initials and signature marks. Rubricated.Signatures: [a⁴, b-d¹⁰, e-l⁸, m-n⁶, o-s⁸, t⁶, v⁸, x-y¹⁰, z⁸, A-B⁸, C¹⁰, D-G⁸, H-I¹⁰, L¹⁰, M-O⁸, P⁶, Q¹⁰, R-S⁸, T¹⁰, V-Z⁸, aa-ee⁸, ff⁶, gg-ii¹⁰, kk-ll⁸, mm-nn¹⁰, oo⁸, pp¹⁰, qq-rr⁸, ss-tt¹⁰.] sig. a₁ and tt₁₀ blank.With glosses to several books after Nicolaus de Lyra.With numerous woodcuts, including four historiated borders.Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00637000Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B637Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3141*Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4308Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 264Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3466BAC Leaf Collection no. 0255: Imperfect: a single leaf only, from the Book of Joshua. With large initial 'U' in red and blue. 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.