Bod-Inc: C-201
Chronicles: Coellen (Cologne)
Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen [German].
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page with woodcut and verse.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Colonia diceris hinc, quia sanguine tincta | Sanctorum, meritis quorum stas vndique cincta'; 2 hexameters.
A2r ‘Dat register ind wijsunge eyn yecklich puntgyn diß boichs tzo vynden, dat men soichen ind wissen will'.
2A1r [Second title-page with woodcut and verse.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Colonia diceris hinc, quia sanguine tincta | Sanctorum, meritis quorum stas vndique cincta'; 2 hexameters.
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
Imprint: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, 23 Aug. 1499. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A B 2A–I6 K10 L–Z a–d6 e4 f–z aa–nn6.
Illustrations: 368 woodcuts; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ic00476000
GW: GW 6688;
Hain: HC *4989;
Goff: Goff C‑476;
BMC: BMC I 299;
Proctor: Pr 1464;
Others: 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
Copy number: C-201(1)
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.
Copy number: C-201(2)
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.
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