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Sächsisch Chronicon : Darinnen Ordentlich begriffe[n] die Fürnemste[n] vnd denckwirdigsten Sachen, so von anbegin der Welt sich begeben, allermeist aber die in dem Römischen Reiche, vnd Sachsen, auch andern Lendern vorgelauffen ... : Auffs newe zugerichtet, gebessert, vnd mit allerley Figuren der Keyser, abgöttern, Bischoffe vnd Stedter, gezieret, vnd Continuirt biss vff den Monat Maium des Iahrs Christi, 1596 / Mit einen vollkommenen vnd richtigen Register verfasset, Durch Mattheum Dresserum ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio GC B6578 492c 1596
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Sächsische Weltchronik.
- Language:
- German
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- World history--Early works to 1800.
- World history.
- History.
- Germany--History--To 1517--Early works to 1800.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--1517-1648--Early works to 1800.
- Holy Roman Empire--History--To 1517--Early works to 1800.
- Holy Roman Empire.
- Germany--History--Chronology--Early works to 1800.
- Saxony (Germany)--History--1423-1815--Early works to 1800.
- Saxony (Germany).
- Genre:
- Chronologies.
- Wooden boards (Binding)
- Clasps (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Chaura, František Rudolf (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 788 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- r-er N.fe t.as bevi (3) 1596 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Gedruckt zu Wittembergk : Bey M. Iohann Krafft : In verlegung Iohan Francken Buchführer zu Magedburgk, 1596.
- Notes:
- This work was translated from the Saxon dialect into German by Johann and Samuel Baumgarten, who also continued the narrative from 1489, where the original ended, to 1588. Matthaeus Dresser revised the work and continued it to 1596.
- Date appears before place of printing on title leaf.
- Signatures: )o(⁶ A-Z⁶ Aa-Zz⁶ Aaa-Ttt⁶ Vvv⁴ Xxx-Yyy⁶ (leaf )o(6 blank).
- Errors in pagination: p. 246, 508, 513, 611, 666, 716, 769, 780 printed 256, 505, 413, 911, 966, 416, 780, 769, respectively.
- Title in red and black (the words "Darinnen Ordentlich begriffe[n] die Fürnemste[n]" of title a xylograph?).
- Woodcut title vignette, illustrations, head-piece and tail-pieces.
- Initials.
- Printed marginalia.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy bound with: Borek, Marcin. Behmische Chronica. Gedruckt zu Wittemberg : Durch Zacharias Krafft, Im Jhar MDLXXXVII [1587].
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled pig over indented, beveled-edge wooden boards; 5 raised bands on spine; 2 leather and metal clasps and metal catchplates.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf mark(?) on front pastedown; early ms. notes on verso of front free endpaper and back pastedown; red paper label ("Fr. R. Chaura Numismat Prague Bohemia") of numismatist František Rudolf Chaura (1841-1910) on back pastedown; some ms. annotations and a few ms. underlines in text; a few ms. marginal marks in ink or pencil in text.
- Penn Libraries copy: folded plate bound in after leaf L6 torn and mended at fold and cropped at fore-edge with loss of image border; light worming of boards, pastedowns, and last leaf of volume.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 B 6797
- OCLC:
- 42619474
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