Accession number
PML 77078.2
Creator
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541-1622.
Published
Coloniae Agrippinae : Typis Theodori Graminaei, M.D. LXXII [1572]
Credit line
Gift of Elise B. Hille in memory of her father-in-law Frederick William Hille; 1981.
Notes
Dedication signed: Georgius Bruin, Simon Novellanus, Franciscus Hogenbergius.
Includes poem by Alexander Grapheus.
Imprint from colophon, which reads in full: auctorum aere et impensis impressum, absolutum[que] est hoc opus Coloniae Agrippinae, Typis Theodori Graminaei, Calendis Augusti, Anno M.D. LXXII.
Engraved t.p., with blank verso. Explanatory historical text on rectos of plates.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴; 60 sheets of plates.
PML copy differs from that described in Koeman B-H, first edition, part I (p. 15): verso of engraved title page is blank and leaf 2r has imperial priviledge from Maximilian II rather than Rudolph II.
PML copy missing plates 5 and 18.
Tipped in: pen and watercolor drawing depicting the defense of Szigetvár against the armies of Süleyman II in 1566.
Includes poem by Alexander Grapheus.
Imprint from colophon, which reads in full: auctorum aere et impensis impressum, absolutum[que] est hoc opus Coloniae Agrippinae, Typis Theodori Graminaei, Calendis Augusti, Anno M.D. LXXII.
Engraved t.p., with blank verso. Explanatory historical text on rectos of plates.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴; 60 sheets of plates.
PML copy differs from that described in Koeman B-H, first edition, part I (p. 15): verso of engraved title page is blank and leaf 2r has imperial priviledge from Maximilian II rather than Rudolph II.
PML copy missing plates 5 and 18.
Tipped in: pen and watercolor drawing depicting the defense of Szigetvár against the armies of Süleyman II in 1566.
Description
[10] leaves, [60] double plates : ill., maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
All plates hand colored. Manuscript index at end. Marginal annotations throughout. Bound in at end: drawing of seige of Zips (Spiš Castle, Slovakia), dated 1565, and title page from unidentified printed edition, "Conterfectur des Namhafften Schloss doggen in Zips als rechter pass auff Sieberbürgen zwischen der Theyss unnd Bodrog... Gedruckt zu Nörnberg bey Hans Adam."
Provenance
Franciscus Scheffer (signature), W.R. Scheffer (inscription dated May 1748), Frederick William Hille, Elise B. Hille.
Classification
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