Ein hübsche histori von der künngclichenn stat troy wie si zerstörett wartt.
Alternate Title(s):
Historia destructionis Troiae. German
Published / Created:
Strassburg : Martin Schott, 13 March 1489.
Physical Description:
[128] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Leaf Collection no. 0560 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from leaf a1r.Printed in Schott's type 1:99G.Colophon (leaf v7v): "Hie endet sich das bûch vnd hystori wie die reiche kostlich vnd mächtig statt Troya ward erstöret durch die verhengknuβ gotes ... Das getruckt vnnd vollendet hat Marten schott in der löblichen statt Straspurg an freytag nächst nach sant Gregori. Als man czalt nach christi gepurt M. CCCC.lxxxix."Collation: a⁸ b-g⁶ h⁸ i-n⁶ o⁸ p-t⁶ v⁸: 128 leaves, leaf v8 blank.Chancery folio (26.5 x 19 cm.).Xylographic title on leaf a1r.105 woodcuts, some of which appeared in other editions by Schott; 3-part woodcut border on leaf a2r.BSB-Ink B-965Schramm XIX p. 16Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00779000Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C779Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5518Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7238Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 94Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4138BAC Leaf Collection no. 0560: Imperfect: title leaf only, with full-page woodcut of the dream of Hecuba on the verso. 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.