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Title(s):
Hie fahet an der helden bůch das man nennet den wolfdieterich ...
Additional Title(s):
Heldenbuch.
Published/Created:
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [approximately 1479]
Physical Description:
[282] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0365
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
In verse.
Title from incipit (leaf [2]r).
Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.
Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3-11⁸ 12⁶ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁸ 21⁶ 22⁸ 23-24⁶ 25⁸ 26-28⁶ 29⁸ 30⁶ 31⁸ 32-34⁶ 35⁸ 36-39⁶].
Contains 230 woodcut illustrations, printed from 163 blocks.
Text in double columns, 38 lines per column.
Initial spaces.
"Hie nach folget der rosengart zů Wurms, mit seinen figuren": leaves [211]r-[249]v.
"Dises ist der clein Rosengart oder der clein küning Laurin": leaves [251]r-[275]r.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00013400
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 8419
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 12185
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4196
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0365: Imperfect: five leaves only, all with hand-colored woodcuts. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Epic poetry, German.
German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050–1500.
Heldensage.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts.
Hand coloring.
Incunabula.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Prüss, Johann, 1446 or 1447–1510, printer.
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