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, Victoria.

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