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Book/Printed Material Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg.

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About this Item

Title

  • Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg.

Names

  • Nuremberg (Germany).
  • Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519, engraver.
  • Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer.
  • Erlach, Johann Rudolf von, 1621-1678, inscriber.
  • Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848, former owner.
  • Lochner family, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 5 June (Pfingstabend) 1484.

Headings

  • -  Law--Germany--Nuremberg--Early works to 1800
  • -  Germany--Nuremberg

Genre

  • Incunabula--Germany--Nuremberg--1484

Notes

  • -  The woodcut is attributed to Michael Wolgemut.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 107
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-37
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13716
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 426 (IB.7315)
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy: illustration colored; initial on leaf [28a] illuminated; paragraph marks and other initials supplied in red and blue alternately, initial strokes in red. Ms. quiring, mostly cropped. Inscription on leaf [2a]: "Ioannes Rodolphus ab Erlach. Nasci, Laborare Mori."
  • -  LC copy has engraved bookplate of Harrison Gray Otis on front paste down with motto: "Legere, et non intelligere; est negligere".
  • -  LC copy: Old stamped leather, lettered "Reformacion," with bosses and clasps (1 broken).
  • -  Vollbehr H13716

Medium

  • [214] leaves (the last blank). woodcut: illus. 32.2 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1484 .N8
  • Incun. 1484 .N8 Copy 2 Copy 2. 29.5 cm. Without the blank. Leaf [1] (illus.) trimmed and mounted on new leaf; leaf [27] duplicated. Illustration colored; initial and lower margin of leaf [28a] illuminated; paragraph marks and other initials supplied in red and blue alternately, initial strokes in red. Ms. foliation, partly cropped. Ms. subject index of 13 leaves bound in at front. With the coat-of-arms of the Lochner family of Nuremberg.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 47044061

Online Format

  • pdf
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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Nuremberg, Michael Wolgemut, Anton Koberger, Johann Rudolf Von Erlach, Harrison Gray Otis, Former Owner Lochner Family, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 5 June Pfingstabend, 1484. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/47044061/.

APA citation style:

Nuremberg, Wolgemut, M., Koberger, A., Erlach, J. R. V., Otis, H. G., Lochner Family, F. O. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1484) Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 5 June Pfingstabend. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/47044061/.

MLA citation style:

Nuremberg, et al. Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 5 June Pfingstabend, 1484. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/47044061/>.