Hessische Chronica : auffs new übersehen, corrigiret und verbessert, auch mit vielen Historien und bildnussen vermehret / durch Wilhelm Schäffern genandt Dilich ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilich, Wilhelm, -1655.

Contributor:

Wessel, Wilhelm, 1564 or 1565-1626, printer.

Stubenrauch, Michael, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Hesse (Germany)--History--Early works to 1800.

Hesse (Germany).

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Balaus, Wilhelm Alexander (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Liechtenstein, House of (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Raunfels (armorial binding) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 189, that is, 317 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 357, that is, 385 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

c.zu O.es m:en n,w- (3) 1606 (A)

Place of Publication:

Zu Cassel Gedruckt : Durch Wilhelm Wessel : In verlegung des Autoris und Michaëlis Stubenrauch ..., Anno 1606.

Notes:

Colophon on verso of last printed leaf, which reads: Gedruckt zu Cassel durch Wilhelm Wessel in verlegung des Autoris und Michaëlis Stubenrauch Anno MDCVI.

Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁴ [superscript pi]b² [superscript pi]c⁴ A⁴ B-C⁸ D-E² F-G⁴ H² chi1 I-L⁴ M²(M1+2chi1) N² 3chi1 O⁴ P⁴(P2+4chi1) 5chi1 Q-R² S⁴ T² V-2F⁴ 2G⁴(-2G4) 2H⁴(-2H4) 2I-2K² 2L-2P⁴ 2Q⁸ 2R⁴ a-b⁴ c² d-t⁴ v⁶ 6chi² x-y⁴ z⁴(z3+'z iiij') [2a]⁴([2a]3+7chi1) 2b-2c⁴ 2d⁴(2d2+'dd iij') 2e-2f⁴ 2g⁴(2g2+8chi1) 2h⁴ 2i⁶ 2k⁶(2k1+'kk ij') 2l⁴(2l1+'ll iij') 2m-2u⁴ 9chi² 2x-2y⁴ 2z² 10chi² 11chi1.

Leaves d1 and d3 signed c1 and c3; leaves [2a]1-[2a]3 signed a1-a3.

Title printed in red and black.

Engraved illustrations and maps.

Woodcut illustrations, title ornament, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Initials.

Errata on leaf 2R4r.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has some ms. underlines and a few marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has partially illegible eighteenth-century Latin ms. bibliographical note signed by Wilhelm Alexander Balaus, a lawyer and bibliophile from Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), on blank leaf at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of the Princes of Liechtenstein ("Ex Libris Liechtensteinianis" above arms with chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece), possibly to be associated with Prince Franz Joseph II, on inside left board.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound in full early blind-tooled parchment with supra-libros of the Raunfels family: "large central stamp of oval wreath containing mantled arms (party per fess, a lion rampant), surmounted by a crest (a helm with coronet, from which issues a demi-lion rampant, holding a sickle in both paws) between the initials "S.R." (Raunfels)"--Aldine Press (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), no. 1043; 4 raised, blind-ruled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; ms. shelf-mark ("25") and largely illegible title on spine; evidence of 2 cloth fore-edge ties; several small portions of early ms. parchment leaves used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy: leaf A4 bound in out of order before leaf A1; tail outer corner of leaf a3 torn off; binding damaged.

Cited in:

VD 17 14:079455M

OCLC:

855465127