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Die Chronica von der hilliger Stat Coellen.

(On the last leaf:) Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, undated (= August 23, 1499). Fol. Gothic type; 49 lines and 2 headers, partly printed in two columns. Larger fragment of 311 fol. (of 368 leaves; a complete copy would have the following numbering of quires: A-B, A-I6, K10, L-Z6, a-d6, e4f-z6, aa-nn6; the present copy lacks the following quires and single leaves: A-B, D2 and 5, H2 and 5, K5-9, L1, P4, Z3-4, e3, f2-4 and 6, h, i, k2 and 5, s2, t2 and 5, ee5, nn2 and the last two white nn5-6). With hundreds of (mostly repeated) woodcuts in the text, some of which are the size of a leaf. Modern calf binding (signed Hedberg) in 15th century style with gilt-stamped spine title and blind-stamped cover decoration. (Spine somewhat faded). ISTC no. ic00476000. GKW 6683. BMC I, 299 (IB 5073 and IB.5074). Goff C-476. The only incunable edition of the most famous monument to the Old Cologne dialect and - alongside the "Sachsen-Chronik" - the most important Low German historical work of the early printing period. On fol. 311 the important chapter on the invention of the art of printing, with mention of Gutenberg by name. The Dutch donates (printed in xylography! i.e. not with individual types) are mentioned as precursors. According to the unnamed author (a schoolmaster Johann Stump von Reheinbach is said to have written the work for Koelhoff, while GKW mentions an unknown Cologne Dominican), the content of this chapter goes back to the first Cologne printer, Ulrich Zell, who began printing in 1466 and was therefore a contemporary of Gutenberg. (for more details see: Hind, History of Woodcut I, p. 207). The illustration is said to be by three different artists. It comprises large woodcuts with scenes described in the text. Some of the woodcuts show the city of Cologne. Most of the woodcuts are stereotypical portraits. The present copy lacks most of the woodcuts with coats of arms, especially the particularly attractive double-sheet-sized woodcut with the double-headed imperial eagle. Truly not a good copy - but most of the copies that have survived are incomplete and poorly preserved! The first 12 unnum. With the first title and the index. Numerous tears, all with old backing, always with loss of text and image, some supplemented with handwritten "facsimiles". The lower margin of a very large number of leaves has been added (sometimes touching the lowest line of text). Marginal tears pasted over with tracing paper during binding. Soiled throughout, partly with red pencil scribbles. Long ownership entry by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1896.

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Die Chronica von der hilliger Stat Coellen.

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