Cologne Chronicle
Type: Incunabulum
Date: 1499
Imprint: Cologne: Johan Koelhoff
Format: Unidentified
Setting: Nuremberg, Germany
Produced By/For: Printed by Johan Koelhoff
Contents/Title: Cologne Chronicle, single leaf
Shelf Mark: Inc.Ger.1
Location: Brown Collection Box 6 (Acc. 1989-070, Item #3)
Description from donor
Leaf from the Cologne Chronicle
An original leaf from Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coelle printed in 1499 by Johan Koelhoff in Cologne. Contemporary colouring. [Information from label affixed to mat.] Matted and framed between two sheets of Plexiglas, area visible: ca. 310 x 213 mm. Upper outside corner torn off (4x8 mm), lower outside corner creased with some flaking of paper.
Recto: [p.?] CXX at head, 42 lines text printed in black, many letters embellished with red vertical strokes. Three Portraits (two of clerics and one of an emperor) printed in black and coloured yellow, blue, green, brown, and red; ca. 50 x 40mm.
Verso: 44 lines text printed in black and embellished as above.
Provenance: Adelphi Bookshop, 樱花影视.
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