Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, active 14th century
Title:
Der Ritter vom Turn : von den Exempel[n] der gotsforcht v[o]n erberkeit.
Alternate Title(s):
Ritter vom Turm
Published / Created:
Zů Basel : Durch Micheln Furter, in dem jor nach Christi geburt .M.cccc.xciii. jor gedruckt [1493]
Physical Description:
74 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0670
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.

Imprint from colophon, leaf M5v: Der Spiegel der Tugent und Ersamkeyt/ durch den hochberümten Ritter vo[n] Thurn mitt schönen unnd kostlichen hystorien und Exe[m]pel/ zů underwysung syner kind/ in Frantzosischer sprach begriffen/ und durch den Edlen fürnemen un[d] Strengen/ hern Marquart vom Steyn Ritter/ und Landtuogt zů Montellicart/ in tütsch transferiert unnd gezogenn/ Zů Basel in dem jor nach Christi geburt .M.cccc.xciii. jor gedruckt durch Micheln Furter endet sich seliklich Amen. 1493. Nüt on ursach [in scroll]. IB.

Initials IB at end of colophon for Johann Bergmann.

Signatures: A⁸ B-M⁶: 74 leaves.

Chancery folio. 1 column, 44 lines. Type 3:180G and 4*:94G. Printed initials.

Translated by Marquart von Stein.

46 woodcuts from 45 blocks (title page illustration repeats).

Schramm, XXII p. 43

BSB-Ink, L-60

Incunabula short title catalogue, il00073000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L-73

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15514*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M17154

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5392

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0670: Imperfect: 24 leaves only. 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)
Contributors:
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528, illustrator. | Marquart, vom Stein, approximately 1430–1495 or 1496, translator. | Furter, Michael, -1517, printer. | Bergmann, Johann, active 1494–1499, publisher.