Von der Kinthait vnnsers herren iesu cristi gena[n]t vita christi
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Type of record: Book
Title: Von der Kinthait vnnsers herren iesu cristi gena[n]t vita christi
Other titles: Neue Ehe; Neue Ee; Vita Christi
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PAS
Additional creator(s): Schauer, Johann (1482-1500) (Printer); Progel, Joseph Bonaventura (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Jesus Christ; Schauer, Johann; Progel, Joseph Bonaventura; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Hat getruckt Hanns Schaur zu Augspurg; Johann Schaur
Publication city: [Augsburg]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni.M.CCCC.XCiiij. [1494]
Language: German
Size and medium: Cix leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/94810
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007774589705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-F in alternate 8s and 6s G⁶ H-Q in alternate 8s and 6s.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on Q5r reads: Diß puch von der kintheit vnd vom dem leiden vnsers Herren Jesu Christi. Auch von dem leben Marie seiner aus erwelten mutter. Mitsambt d[er] legend d[er] Heiligen. iii. Künig. Hat getruckt Hanns Schaur zu Augspurg. Anno d[omi]ni.M.CCCC.XCiiij. [et]c.
Leaf A3r: Hie hebt sich an die neu[e] Ee vnd das Passional von Jhesu vnd Marie leben... [etc.].
Printed in two columns with 42 lines to a full column.
Title printed in large woodcut type on A1r.
Ornamental woodcut initials, with three larger than the rest.
Illustrated with 72 outline woodcuts depicting events in the life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ie00017100.
Features
In five of the woodcuts, parts of the figure of the partially-clothed Christ have been obscured with ink manuscript.
Nine lines of text on the recto of leaf xiii have been scored through with black ink manuscript.
This copy is missing leaves lxxxi and lxxxi (signatures M5 and M6).
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The pigskin on the upper and lower covers is blind-tooled with a border of fillets and an interlace design containing stylised foliage. The spine has four raised bands. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript in the second panel are the words: Vita Christi. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript in the fourth panel are the place and date: Augspurg 1494. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with pigskin straps catching on the upper board. Size: 285 x 215mm. Leaf size: 272 x 190mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript beneath the title on A1r in imitation of the type: durch Iosephu[m] den iudischen geschicht schreiber beschriben.
Bookplate of the Benedictine abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg on the front pastedown.
Book label on the front pastedown: Progel. The book was probably owned by Joseph Bonaventura Progel.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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