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Names
Quentell, Heinrich, d. 1501 (Publisher)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1478 (Approximate)
Place: Cologne
Publisher: Heinrich Quentell
Issuance: monographic
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Ger. 1478+
Topics
Low German language -- Dialects -- Saxony
Costume -- Germany -- 15th century
Low German language -- To 1500
Incunabula -- Germany -- Cologne
Genres
Bibles
Notes
Citation/reference: GW 4307. Hain-Copinger 3142. BMC I, 264.IC.4411. Pellechet 2378. Voulliéme 256. Schreiber 3465. Darlow and Moule 4183. Walther, v. 3, col. 655-671. Schramm, v. 8, p. 9-10. Schramm, A. Die illustrierten Bibeln der deutschen Inkunabel-Drucker, p. 10-15. Kautzsch, R. Die Holzschnitte der K=olner Bible von 1479.
Content: Gothic type (Proctor 1253); 2 columns, 56-57 lines. Rubricated.
Content: Collation: [v. 1:] 271 l. l. 1 blank. [v. 2:] 272-5421 l. l. 542 blank.
Content: "The test is...taken from...Quentell's 1478 Bible in the western district of Low German, though it has throughout been adopted to the Low Sason dialect."--British and Foreign Bible Soc. Historica catalogue, v. 2 p 484
Content: Illustrations: 113 woodcuts, comprising 90 cuts (Schramm, v. 8, no. 357-375, 377-394, 396-448, including one repeat) in [v. 1], and 23 cuts (Schramm, v. 8, no. 449-462, 464, including nine repeats) in [v. 2]. Historiated borders (cf. Kaufzsch, p. 6-7) on 1. 2a (preface), 1. 5a (Genesis), 1. 272a (Proverbs), 1. 436a (New Testament) and 1. 535a (Apocalypse). The borders, 21 cuts in [v. 1] and all cuts in [v. 2] are colored by hand. Because of a misunderstood passage in the preface it has been thought that the designs were copied from paintings in churches and monasteries, but Kautzsch has traced them to a manuscript. The cuts were probably made in Cologne by a woodcutter trained in France.
Content: Binding, contemporary, of brown calf, blind tooled, over wooden boards, with eighteenth century labels. Clasps wanting from [v. 1-2] and metal bosses and corner pieces from [v. 2]. The tooling, which includes religious names and symbols, differs in [v. 1 and 2].
Content: With ms. notes throughout, and ms. table of the epistles and gospels for the church year on 1. 542.
Content: The Stolberg-Wernigerode copy with bookplate of Christian Ernst Graf zu Stolberg.
Physical Description
Extent: 542 l. in 2 v. illus. f̕.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16830914
Other local Identifier: 131742287
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6e4bac10-2de0-0131-e965-58d385a7bbd0
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