Hystori wie Troya erstört ward.

Accession number:

PML 48181

Author:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 30 April 1479.

Description:

[134] leaves: illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as a Gift of the Fellows, 1957.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Hÿe hebt sich an ein schöne Hÿstori. wie Troÿa die köstlich statt erstört ward. und sagt vo[n] erste[m] von dem künig Priamo und von seine[m] sun Paris.
Colophon (leaf [14]/8v): Hÿe enndet sich das bůch v[o]n hÿstori. wie die reÿch kostlich unnd mächtig stat Troÿa ward erstöret durch die verhencknuβ gottes. zů einem exempel d[en] ganczen wellt. dabeÿ man mercken mage. das sich nÿemandt seines adels reÿchtumbs oder mächtigkeÿt zůvil übernemen sol. Das hatt gedruckt unnd volenndt Anthonius Sorg in der keÿserlichen stat Augspurg. am freÿtag nach sant Jörgen tag im lxxix. jare.
Printed in Sorg's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1-12¹⁰ 13⁶ 14⁸]: 134 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Hans Mair with interpolations from Konrad von Würzburg.
67 woodcuts.
Abbreviated version, see GW.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.2 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German sheepskin with blind fillet saltire pattern over thin wooden boards (31 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 1 clasp, wanting.

Variant Title:

Hystori wie Troya erstört ward

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Woodcuts and woodcut initials colored by hand. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelf mark in black ink: 308 (on spine); Ferdinand Hoffmann (1540-1607), baron von Grünbüchel und Streckau, bookplate (front pastedown); Laurence Witten; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Witten in 1956 as a Gift of the Fellows, 1957.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Sheepskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books