tic00476000

Text-inc Id:

tic00476000

Bod-inc Id:

C-201

Headings:

Chronicles: Coellen (Cologne) Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen [German].

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page with woodcut and verse.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Colonia diceris hinc, quia sanguine tincta | Sanctorum, meritis quorum stas vndique cincta'; 2 hexameters.
2. A2r ‘Dat register ind wijsunge eyn yecklich puntgyn diß boichs tzo vynden, dat men soichen ind wissen will'.
3. 2A1r [Second title-page with woodcut and verse.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Colonia diceris hinc, quia sanguine tincta | Sanctorum, meritis quorum stas vndique cincta'; 2 hexameters.
4. 2A2r Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen [German]. Die Chroniken der niederrheinischen Städte. Cöln, vol. 2, Die Chroniken der deutschen Städte vom 14. bis ins 16. Jahrhundert, vol. 13 (Leipzig, 1876), 209-640; Die Chroniken der niederrheinischen Städte. Cöln, III, Die Chroniken der deutschen Städte vom 14. bis ins 16. Jahrhundert, 14 (Leipzig, 1877), 641-918. Facsimiles: (Cologne, 1972?; 1975; 1979 (with commentary); Hamburg, 1981); see Leonard Ennen and Gottfried Eckertz, Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Köln (Cologne, 1860), vol. 1, pp. ix–x; Potthast I 242; VL V 7-10.

Imprint:

Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, 23 Aug. 1499. Folio.

Collation:

A B ²A–I⁶ K¹⁰ L–Z a–d⁶ e⁴ f–z aa–nn⁶. 368 woodcuts; woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00476000 HC *4989; Goff C‑476; BMC I 299; GW 6688; Pr 1464; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. lxix, no. 447; Borchling–Claussen 312; BSB‑Ink C‑284; Hillard 612; Oates 830-1; Schramm VIII p. 26; Schreiber V 3753; Sheppard 1084; Voulliéme, Köln, 324. LCN: 14840720

Copies:

1. C-201(1) First copy Each of leaves K3-5 has the first of the two settings quoted in GW Anm. 1. Leaf t3r has the woodcut of a king; see GW Anm. 2. Leaf kk5r has the corrected setting; see GW Anm. 3. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-tooled calf, Cambridge style. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover. Size: 328 × 230 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 315 × 211 mm. Provenance: Despite the present shelfmark probably not John Selden; not found in the manuscript catalogues of the Selden collection nor in Hyde, Catalogus (1674); in Fysher, Catalogus (1738), I 299, shelfmarked as today. SHELFMARK: C 1.24 Med. Seld.
2. C-201(2) Second copy Binding: Seventeeenth-century sheep; two leather ties lost. Size: 335 × 225 × 63 mm. Size of leaf: 325 × 218 mm. Leaves from a fifteenth-century printed book used as pastedowns, but mostly covered: the leaves are from an unidentified theological work in Latin, printed in two columns. On² A2r an eight-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Old shelfmarks ‘S. 1557' and ‘Cat. N° 65' on front pastedown. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); bought in 1952 for £325, from Lathrop Colgate Harper; armorial book-plate; accession no. ‘R 1132'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. SHELFMARK: Broxb. 97.5.