Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Chronecken der Sassen.
Alternate Title(s):
Text begins on leaf [a]2r: In dem anbegyune schop got hyemel vnd erde ...
Published / Created:
[Mainz] : Geprent Peter Schoffer van gernszheim in der eddelen stat Mencz ..., In deme iare na Cristi gebort. Dusent vierhundert .lxxxxij. vppe den Sesten dach des Mertzen. [March 6, 1492].
Physical Description:
[568] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1971 937: Imperfect: ff. 4-5 and 282 wanting; fol. 1 (t.p.) misbound following fol. 8; fol. 284 (colophon) misbound at front of text; ff. 9 and 16 reversed; a few leaves bled or torn. For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Subject Terms:
World history -- Early works to 1800. | Chronology, Historical -- Early works to 1800. | Lower Saxony (Germany) -- History -- Early works to 1800. | Saxony (Germany) -- History -- Early works to 1800. | Saxons -- History -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Printer's devices (Publishing) -- Germany -- 15th century. | Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Bote, Conrad, active 1475–1501, attributed name. | Bote, Hermann, approximately 1465–1520, attributed name. | Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425–approximately 1502, printer.