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Apocalypsis sancti Johannis
Uniform Title
Bible. Revelation. Selections. Latin. 1468.
Title
[Apocalypsis sancti Johannis].
Publication
[Germany] : [Publisher not identified], [approximately 1465]
Physical Description
[48] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 38 cm (folio)
Local Notes
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0004: Imperfect: leaf [19] only, with two scenes, hand-colored. At top: woman, sun, and seven-headed dragon; at bottom: St. Michael, angels, and the dragon. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Notes
Block book. Woodcut illustrations and xylographic texts on 48 leaves printed in black ink one side only.
A cycle of 92 pictures illustrating the Apocalypse, arranged in two registers on 48 leaves, except for the full-page representations on 32(32) and 33(33). Cf. Schreiber.
Variant and related titles
Title from banderole in first illustration: Conuersi ab ydolis p[er] predicatione[m] b[ea]ti joha[n]nis drusiana [et] ceteri.
Format
Books
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
March 27, 2024
References
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, IV, p. 160-166
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum (BM 15th cent.), I, p. 3 (IB.41)
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Block books.
Incunabula.
Fragments (object portions)
Hand coloring.
Also listed under
Germany
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