Accession number
PML 20140
Published
Francofurti ad Moenum : Per Petrum Fabritium, impensis Sigismundi Feirabent, & Simonis Huteri, M.D.LXVII [1567].
Notes
First edition of the translation in Latin verse, based on the anonymous High German adaptation (Frankfurt, 1544) of the Low German poem (first published in Lübeck, 1498). In his introduction, Schopper ascribes the High German version to Beuther.
Woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.
Number 283 repeated in foliation; prelim. leaf 2B4 blank, not accounted for in collation.
With missing letter in "Astvtia" on t.-p., supplied in ms.
In this copy the last 3 leaves & the blank are bound at end.
Woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.
Number 283 repeated in foliation; prelim. leaf 2B4 blank, not accounted for in collation.
With missing letter in "Astvtia" on t.-p., supplied in ms.
In this copy the last 3 leaves & the blank are bound at end.
Description
[11], 284 [i.e. 285], [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 15 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Ludwig Schwarkmaier, signature: Pro Ludovic[i] Schwarkmaiero; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1917.
Binding
Modern 1/4 leather over wooden boards by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
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