tic00487400

Text-inc Id:

tic00487400

Bod-inc Id:

C-202

Headings:

Chronicles: Sachsen (Saxony) Chronecken der Sassen [Low German].

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Bote, Konrad]: Chronecken der Sassen [Low German]. Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium illustrationi inservientes, antiqui omnes et religionis reformatione priores, ed. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, III (Hanover, 1711), 277-423. On authorship see Carl Schaer, Conrad Botes niedersächsische Bilderchronik, ihre Quellen und ihr historischer Wert (Hanover, 1880); Potthast I 168; VL I 970-1.

Imprint:

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 6 Mar. 1492. Folio.

Collation:

[a–h] i–z A–M⁸ N⁴. 799 woodcuts; woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00487400 GW 4963; HC *4990; Goff C‑488; BMC I 37; Pr 130; Borchling–Claussen 197; BSB‑Ink B‑765; Oates 38; Schramm XIV p. 9; Schreiber V 3531; Sheppard 87. LCN: 13913959

Copies:

1. C-202(1) Copy Leaves [c7] and C8 mutilated. Wanting the colophon leaf (N4), which is supplied in manuscript. Sheet [b4.5] is misbound between [b1] and [b2]. Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over pasteboards, two clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers fillets form a quadruple frame. Within the second frame is a lozenge-shaped floral ornament. On the upper cover the inner rectangle is decorated with rows of a round lamb-and-flag stamp and a lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp, the lozenge-shaped floral ornament, and a four-petalled flower. On the lower cover the inner rectangle is decorated with a large round rosette stamp, the lozenge-shaped floral ornament, and a six-petalled flower. Size: 295 × 213 × 48 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 210 mm. Early foliation and marginal notes, some in Low German. On t2v a note in German concerning a fire in Stederborg (see Oesterley 652) in 1552; on E5r a note in the same hand referring to another event of the same year. A few woodcuts are partly coloured in ink. Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851); purchased ‘At Wise's 1st auction of Thorpe's Books', lot 131, for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 6, and Financial Statements (1828-32, Library Records b. 4), no. 16, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian'. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 1Q extra 2.13. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.33.