Ein lieplichs lesen und ein warhafftige historii wie einer d[er] da heiβ Hug schäpler.

Accession number:

PML 69

Uniform title:

Hugues Capet (Chanson de geste). German.

Published:

Strasbourg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 4 September 1500.

Description:

[2], LIII leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

40 woodcuts, most are 2-part composites. Decorative woodcut initials.
Collation: A⁸ B-I⁶: 56 leaves.
Colophon (leaf I6v): "In dem iar .M.vc. [i.e., ccccc] nach Cristi unsers herren geburt uff frytag nach sant Adolffs tag [i.e., 4 September] ward diβ büechlin getrückt und seligichen geendet durch Hans grüningern in der keiserlichen fryen statt Straβburg."
Edited by Conrad Heindöffer.
German translation of the chanson de geste Hugues Capet, as Huge Scheppel or Hug Schäpler.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 18.3 cm
Printed in Grüninger's types 17:145G (headlines and incipits), 19:280G (text), 26:98G (title).
Register on leaves A2r-v; first preface on leaves A3r-A4v and second preface on A5r-v.
Title from title page (leaf A1r).
Translated by Elisabeth von Nassau und Saarbrücken (see Verfasserlexikon II: 486-88).

Binding:

Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (26.8 x 19 cm) by Thibaron with gilt-tooled doublures by Marius Michel. Marbled and plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Life of Hugh Capet, King of France

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized in Register; no rubrication required in main text. Annotations: no marginal notes or markings. Modern biblographic notes on fly leaves.

Provenance:

Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding; his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 569, to James Toovey for £23.10; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (first fly leaf recto) and notes, No. 181 8/5/96; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books