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COLOGNE CHRONICLES - Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the younger, 23rd August 1499.
Median 2o (311 x 220 mm). Collation: A-B6 (A1r title, A1v blank, A2r tabula); 2A-I6 K10 L-Z6 a-d6 e4 f-z6 aa-nn6 2A1r second title, 2A1v blank, 2A2r text, nn4r colophon, nn4v-6 blank). 366 leaves (of 368 without the two final blank leaves). Table in 2 columns, 49-51 lines, plus one- or two-line headings. Gothic types 2:290 (major headings and titles), 5:140 (minor headings), 4:96 (text). Lombard initials of type 290G, woodcut border pieces, 92 WOODCUTS with repetitions, initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcuts COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND (a few exceptions), initials, where required supplied in red, capital strokes in red a few capitals highlighted in yellow. (Title repaired, A1 and A2 reinforced along inner margin, double-page woodcut Z3 and Z4 mounted on guard, last gathering nn supplied from another copy, a few marginal closed tears and some small wormholes affecting a few letters, light marginal dampstaining and finger soiling.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers paneled with rules and stamped with various small tools, two fore-edges brass and pigskin clasps and brass catches (upper hinge skillfully repaired, worn, endpapers renewed). Provenance: 3 line inscription (erased from verso of title) -- "Johann Pastoir der Alther Zum Warhenn herren Up dem Aldenmartt unnd hadt myn Mister Jann Kaldennbarren [?] hoeffschneider geschenktt" (contemporary presentation inscription on supplied last leaf) -- purchased from Laurena Witten and Harry L. Stern, Chicago, 18 December 1980.
FIRST EDITION, with K3-K5, t3 and kk5 in first state (not canceled). Approximately three months after publication the distribution of the Cologne Chronicles was forbidden by the City Council and subsequently the previously mentioned leaves were canceled to be replaced with resettings. One example is in fo. Kk5, which in the original relates the less-than-gallant behavior of Peter Langhals toward Emperor Maximilian when Maximilian fell from his horse during a tournament. The revised version states that Langhals sprang off his horse and helped the Emperor to his feet again.
The Cologne Chronicle contains an important, though problematic, early account of the invention of printing, gg1v-2v, which includes information supplied by Ulrich Zell, first printer of Cologne, who must have been in Mainz in the early 1460s. The heading for this account, Van der bychdrucker kunst is made unusually prominent by use of the large 290G type. BMC I, 299; BSB Ink. C-284; Goff C-476; GW 6688; HC 4989*; Muther 413; Schramm VIII, 749-828; VK 324.
Median 2o (311 x 220 mm). Collation: A-B6 (A1r title, A1v blank, A2r tabula); 2A-I6 K10 L-Z6 a-d6 e4 f-z6 aa-nn6 2A1r second title, 2A1v blank, 2A2r text, nn4r colophon, nn4v-6 blank). 366 leaves (of 368 without the two final blank leaves). Table in 2 columns, 49-51 lines, plus one- or two-line headings. Gothic types 2:290 (major headings and titles), 5:140 (minor headings), 4:96 (text). Lombard initials of type 290G, woodcut border pieces, 92 WOODCUTS with repetitions, initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcuts COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND (a few exceptions), initials, where required supplied in red, capital strokes in red a few capitals highlighted in yellow. (Title repaired, A1 and A2 reinforced along inner margin, double-page woodcut Z3 and Z4 mounted on guard, last gathering nn supplied from another copy, a few marginal closed tears and some small wormholes affecting a few letters, light marginal dampstaining and finger soiling.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers paneled with rules and stamped with various small tools, two fore-edges brass and pigskin clasps and brass catches (upper hinge skillfully repaired, worn, endpapers renewed). Provenance: 3 line inscription (erased from verso of title) -- "Johann Pastoir der Alther Zum Warhenn herren Up dem Aldenmartt unnd hadt myn Mister Jann Kaldennbarren [?] hoeffschneider geschenktt" (contemporary presentation inscription on supplied last leaf) -- purchased from Laurena Witten and Harry L. Stern, Chicago, 18 December 1980.
FIRST EDITION, with K3-K5, t3 and kk5 in first state (not canceled). Approximately three months after publication the distribution of the Cologne Chronicles was forbidden by the City Council and subsequently the previously mentioned leaves were canceled to be replaced with resettings. One example is in fo. Kk5, which in the original relates the less-than-gallant behavior of Peter Langhals toward Emperor Maximilian when Maximilian fell from his horse during a tournament. The revised version states that Langhals sprang off his horse and helped the Emperor to his feet again.
The Cologne Chronicle contains an important, though problematic, early account of the invention of printing, gg1v-2v, which includes information supplied by Ulrich Zell, first printer of Cologne, who must have been in Mainz in the early 1460s. The heading for this account, Van der bychdrucker kunst is made unusually prominent by use of the large 290G type. BMC I, 299; BSB Ink. C-284; Goff C-476; GW 6688; HC 4989*; Muther 413; Schramm VIII, 749-828; VK 324.