Cento novelle. Das seind Die hundert neüen fabelen oder historien.

88 woodcuts and initials.
Collation: [1]²; a-[tall-s] s-z A-X⁸ Y⁶: 368 leaves.
Colophon (leaf Y6r): Geturckt und vollendet in d[er] keÿserliche[n] stat Augspurg von Anthonio Sorg an de[m] nächβte[n] montag nach Galli. Nach cristi gepurt Tausendt vierhundert und in dem neünczigosten Jar.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 18.6 cm
PML copy with leaf [1]/1 remargined with modern paper and leaves d8 and Y3 with bottom fore edge corner repaired with missing text added in pencil.
Printed in Sorg's types 3:140G and 4:109G.
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Cento novelle. Das seind Die hundert neüen fabelen oder historien so die gesaget seind worden zů einer pestile[n]czischen zeiten.
Translated by Arigo (i.e. Heinrich Schlüsselfelder?). For the translation (also ascribed to Steinhöwel, Leubing or Österreicher) see J.L. Flood in Book Production and Letters in the Western European Renaissance: Essays in Honour of C. Fahy (London, 1986), pp.64-88 and in Hans Sachs and Folk Theatre in the Late Middle Ages (Lewiston, NY, 1995), pp.143-45.