28 unnumbered leaves, xxi-cxl leaves : illustrations; 27 cm (folio)
Related Place:
Germany -- Ulm.
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
A German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris. "Nicht weniger wie vier Ausgaben dieses Buches sind uns aus der Offizin Johann Zainers überkommen, alle mit Holzschnitten geschmückt, zwei datiert (1473), zwei undatiert; die datierten Ausgaben in lateinischer Sprache, die undatierten deutsch, eine mit vollem Text, die andere nur mit kurzen deutschen Erläuterungen unter den Illustrationen."--A. Schramm, Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, Heft V, p. 3-4.; Title from first lines of leaf [a]1r.; Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on last printed leaf.; Imprint date from ISTC. "Also recorded as not before 15 Aug. 1473"--ISTC.; Translator's dedication to Eleanore of Scotland, Archduchess of Austria, dated at end: Geben zů vlm vff den abend der durchlüchtigisten künigin ob allen frowe[n] gesegneten Marie als sie von irem aingebornen sun vss disem iamertal, in syn rych der öwigen fröden empfangen ward, nǎch der geburt des selben sunes jm tusendfierhundert drÿvndsibenczigisten jar.; Chancery folio. Leaf [b]1v: 33 lines; area of text: 189 x 106 mm. Without signatures or catchwords; leaves [d]1-[p]10 foliated "xxi"-".c.xl.". Woodcut initials; 2 woodcut borders, 1 on leaf [a]6r (initial D with the arms of Eleanore of Scotland, Archduchess of Austria, supported by angels, and the arms of Heinrich Steinhöwel beneath; identified by Schreiber as "armoiries de Reutlingen," the printer Zainer's birthplace) and 1 on leaf [b]1r (initial S formed by the body of the serpent tempting Adam and Eve); 76 woodcut illustrations (1 on leaf [e]8v dated 1473), each 80 x 110 mm., depicting scenes from the life of the women chronicled (for a full list of subjects, cf. Schreiber). "Pour la première moitie le nom se trouve inscrit à côte de la tête de chaque femme, pour le reste il es ajouté entre les deux réglettes. Il n'y en a que trois, qui n'ont qu'un seul trait carré."--Schreiber.; Signatures: [a]⁸ [b]-[p]¹⁰.; Leaf size: 257 x 186 mm.; Rubrication: most capital strokes supplied in red.; Penn Libraries copy: woodcut initials, borders, and illustrations colored by an early hand.; Penn Libraries copy: some leaves have an Arabic folio number in modern ms. in pencil at head outer corner (many numbers lost due to cropping of leaves); leaves [b]2-[c]10 each has early ms. folio number ("ii."-"xx.") in brown ink in head margin; modern ms. numeration of illustrations ("1"-"76") in pencil; 2 ms. bibliographical notes, 1 in brown ink ("3 0 alle quarten") and 1 in pencil ("1473 see folio 8 b and folio 38 b"), beneath colophon on leaf [p]10r (f. cxl).; Penn Libraries copy previously owned by Carl J. Ulmann and purchased for the Libraries on 15 April 1952 through the Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, at sale no. 1336, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-16 April 1952. (Ms. acquisition note in pencil at head of leaf preceding leaf [a]1.) Cf. Incunabula and early printed books ... of the late Carl J. Ulmann, sold by order of his family (New York: Parke-Bernet, 1952), no. 38.; Penn Libraries copy has paper slips with bookseller's printed description in German of this copy pasted to leaf preceding title leaf; bookseller's printed description in English of this copy excised from catalog of sale no. 1336, Incunabula and early printed books ... of the late Carl J. Ulmann, sold by order of his family (New York: Parke-Bernet, 1952), with 2 ms. notes in pencil and ink, laid in; typescript description of this copy (headed: University of Pennsylvania Library Rare Book Collection Bibliographical Notes), signed "T.R.A. [i.e. Thomas Randolph Adams] May 13, 1952", affixed to back pastedown.; Penn Libraries copy bound by H. Fikentscher in full morocco (now red); boards tooled in gold and blind; 6 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels (1 with author's surname and 1 with imprint: Johann Zainer Ulm 1473); spine rebacked; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; binder's stamp ("H. FIKENTSCHER, LEIPZIG 1921.") in gold on tail turn-in of left board; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; maroon silk marker.; Penn Libraries copy: leaves [a]1, [a]8, [b]10 (f. [x]), [c]8 (f. [xviij]), [d]10 (f. xxx), [e]10 (f. xxxx), [f]1 (f. xxxj), [f]10 (f. l), [g]10 (f. lx), and [l]4 (f. lxxxxiij) are each mounted on a stub.; Penn Libraries copy: on leaf [a]6, an unidentified substance has been applied to lines 6-7, rendering the words "maister der süben künst, geschwor / ner arczt ze vlm" illegible; they are supplied in modern ms. ("Maister der süben künst geschworner Arzt ze Ulm") in pencil in the fore-edge margin.; Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at head and fore-edge margins with damage to woodcut borders on leaves [a]6 and [b]1 (f. [i]) and frequent damage to or loss of ms. pencil foliation; leaf [b]5 (f. [v]) torn and neatly mended across lower portion; portion of tail margin of leaf [e]1 (f. xxxi)excised and replaced with a blank leaf; portion of tail margin of leaf [f]7 (f. xlvij) torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; tear in tail inner margin of leaf [f]10 (f. l) neatly mended; portion of inner and tail margin of [h]10 (f. lxx) excised and replaced with a blank leaf; small portion of leaf [l]6 (f. lxxxvi) excised and replaced with a blank leaf; occasional small tears in head or tail margins of leaves neatly mended.; Penn Libraries copy: the typescript description of this copy by Thomas R. Adams affixed to the back pastedown suggests that leaf [c]7 (f. [xvii]) is a facsimile. It has been rubricated and the illustration on the verso hand-colored; the folio number ("xvii.") has been supplied in ms. in black ink in the head margin of the recto. In the first 3 lines of text on the verso, several letters are incompletely inked and the "n" of "in" in line 2 is not present.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Inc B-720
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