Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat va[n] Coelle[n] , [23 August 1499]
- Title(s):
- Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat va[n] Coelle[n] : Sancta Colonia diceris hinc. quia sanguine tincta Sanctorum meritis. quo[rum] stas undiq[ue] cincta.
- Additional Title(s):
- Koelhoffsche Chronik.
- Published/Created:
- [Cologne] : [Johann Koelhoff, the Younger], [23 August 1499]
- Physical Description:
- [12], lvij, [5], lix-cxxxv, [1], cxxxviij-cxlv, clxv-clxvi, cxlvii-cccl, [2] leaves : illustrations, coats of arms, genealogical tables ; 32 cm (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0946Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1305508
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN Zi +1464: Bookplate of Robert Walsingham Martin. For fuller description see collation slip in volume. Imperfect copy.
Title from title page, with woodcut of the city arms and portraits of martyrs, preceding index.
Place and day of publication and printer from colophon; year of publication from leaf 2n3v.
Colophon (leaf nn4r): ... Ind hait gedruckt mit groissem ernst ind vlijss Iohan Koelhoff Burger in Coellen. ind vollendet vp sent Bartholomeus auent des hilligen Apostels Anno vursz ...
A secondary title page, leaf A1r preceding the text, with the same woodcut, reads: Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat Coellen. Sancta Colonia diceris. quia ...
Sometimes attributed to Johann Stump, and also to a Dominican, Hamelmann. See H. Cardauns, Die Chroniken der niederrheinischen Städte, v. 2 (1876), pages 211-212.
Collation: folio: [superscript pi]A-B⁶; A-I⁶ K¹⁰ L-Z⁶ a-d⁶ e⁴ f-2m⁶ 2n⁴ [$1-4 ( -A1, 2A1, 2A4, Z4, e3, e4, f4, 2h4, 2n4; +K5, K6) signed; missigning 2B3 as C3]. Leaves 2n5-6 blank. In some copies, sheets K3.8, 4.7, 5.6 are present in a later setting signed 'kiij', 'kiiij', and 'kv' respectively; in some copies, leaf 2k5 is a cancel. See GW.
Errors in foliation: vii, ix, xxxviij, xliiij, lxvi, cxxviij-cxxix, cxxxi, cxxxiij-cxxxiv, cxxxvij-cxl, cxliiij, cxlv-cxlvi, cliii, clxxvi, cxc, ccxxix, ccxlvii-ccxlviii misnumbered vi, xv, xxxviiij, xxxviij, lxvij, cxxvij-cxxviij, cxxxij, cxxxiiij-cxxxv, cxxxviij-cxli, cxlv, clxv-clxvi, clvi, clxxviij, ccxc, ccxxxij, cccxlv-cccxlvi respectively.
Woodcut border pieces, 92 woodcut illustrations (many repeated). In some copies, the woodcut of an emperor on leaf t3r has been replaced with the woodcut of a king; see GW.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters; Lombard initials.
Type: Gothic letter Proctor's type 2 (290G), type 4 (95G), type 5 (140G), being the sames as types 18, 19 and 14 of Koelhoff the elder.
Printed on sheets of "median"--Size paper
"Van der boychdrucker kunst" (leaves gg1v-2r) is an early account of the history of printing. Some of the information was supplied by Ulrich Zell, the first printer in Cologne
Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00476000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6688
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-476
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 4989*
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 299
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3753
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0946: Imperfect: 38 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Cologne (Germany) -- History -- To 1500 -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Martin, Robert Walsingham, 1871–1961 -- Bookplate.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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