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June 78
Angonaut
$8.50
Cologne Chronicle - Hamelmann, O.P.
Die Chonica can der hilliger Stat von Coellen.
Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the younger, 23 Aug. 1499.
1483 - f. 331
Ref: BMC I p 299 Goff C-476 H. 4989 GW 6688 Pr 146411
Cop: HEHL. NYPL, PML (313x205mm) kkiij

FOlio: 366 leaces, 14-366 numbered ij-ccc.l
[inserted] 49 lines + headline (often 2 lines) [end inserted] 50 lines + headlines, 242(253)x155mm.
Types 290, larger headings + title; 150b, lesser headings +
headlines; 96, text.
some spaces to guide letters left for capitals; printed
Lombardic capitals slsewhere. Numerous woodcuts.

At the death of J. Koclhoff (1475-1493) the elder in 1493, his business
was taken over by his son, and carried on to the end of the
century. (1493-1502) printed about a score of incunabula.
The authors, a Dominican friar, whose name is also
reprinted as "A. Milman," used his narrative in part upon
a chronicle of the bishops of the city (Chronica presulum
to archiepisco porum Coloniensis ecclesiac) written about
1370. Among the numerous woodcuts, perhaps the
most interesting is the full page view from Cologne from
teh east bank of the Rhine (on f. xxx).
This Chronicle is one of the most important early
authorities for the history printing. In a long (ggii)
passage (ff. 311 verse - 312 verse) it states that printing
was invented in Mainz, in 1440; that the 1st printed
book (1450) was a Latin Bible in missal Types; but
that the Mainz printings had been preceded by
editions of Donatus issued in Holland.
Koelhoff's Chronicle ruined the printer: the book was
confiscated + banned, + Koelhoff was exiled (d. 1502).

[inserted] leaf 311 verse under year 1450 begins famous chapter
"Van der bouch druchker Kunst Wener -" which has
been so frequently quoted.