Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen.

Accession number: 
PML 115
Uniform title: 
Chronicles: Cologne.
Published: 
Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, 23 August 1499.
Description: 
[13], ii-lvii [5] lix-CCCl, [2] : illus. (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

368 woodcuts.
Collation: 1A-1B⁶; 2A-2B; C-I⁶ K¹⁰ L-Z, a-d⁶ e⁴ f-z⁶; aa-nn⁶: 368 leaves, leaves nn5-6 blank. For variant collations, see GW and BMC.
Colophon (leaf nn4r): Zo der Eren gotz, syure liever moder, und der dyliger drii konynge...Ind hait gedruckt mit groissem ernst ind vliiss Johan Koelhoff Burger in Coellen. ind vollendet up sent Bartholomeus (i.e. 23 August) avent des hilligen Apostels Anno vurss. Got have lof tzo aller tziit, und ewichlich.
Description of the invention of printing on leaves CCCxiv-CCCxiir (leaves ggiv-ggiir).
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 21.8 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: nn5-6 (blanks). A number of leaves have repaired edges.
PML copy with a blank leaf added after leaf K8.
PML copy with earlier of each variant listed in GW and woodcut of emperor on leaf t3r.
Printed in Koelhoff's types 2:290G, 4:95G, and 5:140G.
Textual variants identified in GW.
The publication year is derived from chronological date of work ending in year M.CCCxcix (i.e., 1499) of Maximilian's reign (leaf 2A4r) and the last dated entry (leaf nn3v): Item nutzer tziit Anno .M.CCCC.xcix...
Title from title-page (leaves 1A1r and 2A1r): die Cronica van der hilliger Stat Coellen.

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin over wooden boards (33.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Kölnische Chronik [Low German]

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where required). Some woodcuts have minor wash decoration. Annotations: Marginal notations throughout, in several contemporary and early modern hands, including by Berent Husichen. Several inscriptions abraded.

Provenance: 
Berent Husichen and Johannes Husichen, of Ootmarsum, purchase inscription, 1515 (tipped to leaf nn6v); Jacobus Isebrandt Harkenroth (1676-1736), of Appingdam, inscription, 1734 (leaf 1A1r); Karl Ballenberger (1801-1860), monogram (second fly recto) and signature, 1854 (second fly verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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