[Fragments of a seventeenth-century Flugblatt reporting a fire in a market town near Karstädt, Germany].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gath, Jeremias, -1632, printer, illuminator.

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Fires--Germany--17th century--Early works to 1800.

Fires.

Broadsides--17th century--Specimens.

Broadsides.

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

1 sheet ([1] page) : color illustration ; 39+ x 29+ cm

Other Title:

Newe, doch [...] Beschreibung welcher gestalt der Flecken Eussen, dr[...] abgebrandt, dadurch vil Menschen und Viech, sampt allen [...]

Place of Publication:

Zu Augspurg : Bey Jeremias Gath Brieffmaler, im Ferbhoff, [between 1615 and 1620?]

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: 2 fragments (top left and bottom right of original sheet) only. Each fragment trimmed to 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Portion of caption title and portion of large woodcut illustration on one fragment; small portion of large woodcut illustration and 1 column (32 lines of text including colophon) on the other.

Broadside with horizontal chain lines.

Woodcut illustration hand-colored in orange, blue and green with possibly some pink and brown.

Text within type ornament borders.

Fragments used as binder's waste: each has two small vertical slits near one edge (for ribbon ties?), glue stains, and additional paper affixed to versos; two pieces of clear tape affixed to verso of one fragment and one to the other; and narrow triple blind fillet across lower portion of one fragment.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Patrick Olson Rare Books.

OCLC:

1385405804