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[Biblia]

[approximately 1478]

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[Biblia], [Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell] [approximately 1478], Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.




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  • Title(s)

    [Biblia]

  • Additional Title(s)

    Bible. Low German. West Low German. 1478.

  • Published/Created

    [Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell] [approximately 1478]

  • Physical Description

    544 leaves : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    Leaf Collection no. 0255
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • 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, ib00637000
    Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B637
    Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3141*
    Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4308
    Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 264
    Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3466
    BAC 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

    Incunabula in Yale Library. |
    Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.

  • Form/Genre

    Fragments (object portions) | Incunabula. | Woodcuts.

  • Contributors

    Nicholas, approximately 1270–1349 | Quentell, Heinrich, -1501

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