Sächssische Chronica : Darinnen Ordentlich begriffen der Alten Teutschen, Sachssen, Schwaben, Francken, Thüringer, Meissner, Wenden, Sclaven, Cimbern und Cherussken, Königen und Fürsten, [et]c. : sampt allerhandt Politischen Händeln und Geschichten, so sich unter berürten Völckern ... zugetragen / Hievor unter dem Tittel Mansfeldischer Chronica erster Theil, durch Cyriacum Spangenberg in Truck gegeben.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spangenberg, Cyriacus, 1528-1604.

Contributor:

Raben, Christoff, printer.

Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Saxons.

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

Saxony (Germany).

Saxons--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Wilhelm Klinghardt (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 728 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)

Edition:

Jetzt aber von dem Autore mit sonderm fleiss auffs neuwe ubersehen/corrigirt/vermehret und gebessert/dergleichen hievor nie in Druck aussgangen.

Fingerprint:

rnr- n.ne n.et gebe (3) 1585 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn : in Verlegung Sigmundt Feyerabend, im Jar MDLXXXV [1585]

Notes:

Title page printed in red and black.

Title vignette; woodcut initials.

Colophon reads: Colophon: Gedruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn bey Christoff Raben, in Verlegung Sigmund Feyerabends.

Printed marginalia.

Signatures: )(⁶ A-N⁶ O⁴-4S⁴.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy in elaborate blind stamped pigskin binding; upper board has a central portrait panel stamp of Elector of Saxony (possibly August I, 1526-1586) beneath which is the verse: "Victus eras acie fidei constantia tandem victorem ante homines fecit et ante deum"; initials stamped in black on upper cover at the top of portrait panel may be "L V H"; date of 1586 stamped in black below portrait panel; remains of two metal clasps; all edges red and speckled brown.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Wilhelm Klinghardt on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: leaf )(3 misbound after leaf )(5.

Culture Class Collection copy has woodcut on title page hand-colored in red, blue, green and brown.

Cited in:

VD 16 S 7636

OCLC:

5981610