[Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils und ewiger Seligkeit]
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Type of record: Book
Title: [Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils und ewiger Seligkeit]
Classmark: BC Incunabula SCH
Creator(s): Fridolin, Stephan (1430-1498)
Additional creator(s): Wolgemut, Michael (1434-1519) (Other); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Anthonien Koberger; Anton Koberger
Publication city: Nurmberg [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Nach der geburt Christi vierzehenhundert vnd yn dem eynvnndneuentzigisten iar Am Eritag dem achtenden tag dess Monats Nouembris au[ss]gedrucket. [8 November 1491]
Language: German
Size and medium: 354 unnumbered leaves
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/k4b2llw7
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96941
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008144939705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-z⁶ ab-ad⁶ ae⁸ A-Z⁶ Aa-Gg⁶ Hh¹⁰.
Colophon on Hh9r reads: Also endet sych hye das Büch. der Schatzbehalter oder schrein der waren reichtümer des heils vnnd ewyger seilgkeit genant... Vnd durch den Erbern vnnd Achtpern Anthonien Koberger. yn der keyserlichen Reichstatt Nurmberg. Nach der geburt Christi vierzehenhundert vnd yn dem eynvnndneuentzigisten iar. Am Eritag dem achtenden tag dess Monats Nouembris au[ss]gedrucket.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Illustrated with 96 full-page woodcuts attributed to Michael Wolgemut.
Initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00306000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 14507=Hain, 6236; BMC II 434 (IB.7413); Goff S306.
Features
Written in ink and pencil manuscript in different hands on the recto of the first blank leaf are various versions of the title and details of the edition.
Capital strokes, paragraph markers and underlinings in red.
Some worm damage.
This copy is missing the final blank leaf.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century German binding of full pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of double and triple fillets, with the frames containing repeating patterns of stylised foliage, fleurons and other motifs. In the central panel is a larger blind-tooled lozenge comprising four impressions of the same foliage motif, with a single impression of the motif in each corner. The spine has five slightly raised bands with blind-tooled triple fillets to either side of each. In the top panel there is indistinct writing in ink manuscript. Tooled in black in the second panel is the title: Schatzbehalter. Written directly onto the spine in the third panel in black ink manuscript are the words: Nürnburg Koberger 1491. Tooled in black at the base of the spine are the place and date: Nuremburg 1491. In the fifth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps, one of which is still intact, catching on a metal pin in the upper board edge. Size: 338 x 233mm. Leaf size: 314 x 212mm.
Provenance
Export stamp on a circular pinked label affixed to the front pastedown: Douane centrale Paris.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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