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Hie fahet an der helden bůch das man nennet den wolfdieterich und sagt ersten von herr keyser Otnit und den kleinen Elberich ...

Accession number
PML 196720.1-2
Object title

Hie fahet an der helden bůch das man nennet den wolfdieterich und sagt ersten von herr keyser Otnit und den kleinen Elberich ...

Uniform title
Heldenbuch. 1479.
Published

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [approximately 1479]

Description

[282] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of William M. Voelkle, 2017.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
Imprint from ISTC/GW.
Dated on paper evidence; CIBN dates to about 1484.
Printed in type 1:100G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-11⁸ 12⁶ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁸ 21⁶ 22⁸ 23-24⁶ 25⁸ 26-28⁶ 29⁸ 30⁶ 31⁸ 32-34⁶ 35⁸ 36-39⁶]: 282 leaves, leaf [276] blank. Variant collation in CIBN.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Contains 230 woodcuts, printed from 163 blocks.
In verse.
Initial spaces.
"Hie nach folget der rosengart zů Wurms, mit seinen figuren": leaves [211]r-[249]v.
"Dises ist der clein Rosengart oder der clein küning Laurin": leaves [251]r-[275]r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 18 cm., trimmed.
PML copy is only 2 leaves: 207 (incipit: "Hie kopt der bot..." with woodcut on recto) and 226 (incipit: "er sprach edele frawe" with woodcut on verso).
Binding
Not bound, in folder.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: from PML 196720.1. Bull's head surmounted by small cross on vertical stick.
Watermark: from PML 196720.2. Bull's head, with circle at bottom.
Hand decoration: Woodcuts colored by hand in pink and yellow. Annotations: No marginal notations.
Provenance
Regensburg, Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis Hofbibliothek, copy broken up and dispersed by 1954 (see Duntze and Eisermann); unidentified US West Coast collection; William Hutchison, bookseller; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased as the gift of William M. Voelkle, March 2017.
Classification
Century
Department