Farfel Notebook 05: Leaves 317-396

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Dr. Eichenberger Beior wilAm [illegible] Jan '91 190SF = $95 317 Konrad Botho ( Burger in Braunschweig - 2nd half 15 C) Chronecken der Sassen (low German) d.1499 Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, 6 March, 1492. f Ascribed by GW to K. Botho. Ref : Goff C-488. HC 4990 Pell 2786 Polain (B) 847 Oates 38 Schr 3531 Schramm XIV p.9 Pr 130 799 Woodcuts - GW 4963 BMC I 37. Muther #638 at pl. 145 to 147 6p: BM aw r CL HEHL(-) PML, LC, NYPL(S) 13. Royale, Mainz Wolfenbuttel Breslau plates 33 + 34, Schrieber woodcuts Bunst Z240.9 S3f. [a-L8] i-z A-M8N4. 284 leaves. 10b : 43 lines , [inserted] 305 X 208 [end inserted] 200 X 127 mm, not reckoning the ornamental capital - pages I illust often 20 or 30 mm longer. [inserted] mii [end inserted] Types : 286 , dates + names of places 149a , title, colophon + names of portraits 93 text - small semi cursive text type, used in -One German Hortus Sanitatis 28 March 1485, in the Chronecken du Sassen of 1492 + other vernacular works. S. Thomas Aquinas, Summae Theologiae, 6 March 1467, the 1st book issued by Schoeffer alone after Fust's death. Polain Pell f0, 284 ffnc. rouge et none 43ll. 282 ffnc. impression red + black. init . gras. calligraph et gravures Chronecken der Sassen - the last of Schoeffer's illust. books, which was the third Mainz illustrated book. Repetitions use is made of the woodcuts. (799) The so called Sachsenchronik is a world chronicle but deals particularly t the history of Saxony. - contains view of Frankfort a/M which is the earliest known representation of that town. - 7 yrs after the Hortus + 10 yrs before his death Schoeffer produced another illustrated book in which the woodcuts played a major part - Chronecken der Sassen.

Ces bois sont interessants pour les portraits, les costumes et les armoiries qui y sont representes; beaucoup sont repetes. Botho's Chronicle deals chiefly t the history of Saxony, more especially Braunschweig + Magdeburg, but it is important not so much as an historical source, but as a source for the folklore + legends it contains + also for linguistic reasons, being written in Low German. Of importance are also the many heraldic woodcuts which made the book known as the Low Saxon Picture Chronicle. - a curious cross between a universal + a provincial chronicle. It begins t the creation of the world, the founding of Rome, + the birth of Christ, but already on fol.7 we reach: "Of the Saxons + how they obtained their land".... From that point on the chronicle proceeds in annalistic form, t the main stress + prominence given to the Saxon tribe, their dynasties, + their deeds.

318 Dr Eichenberger Bein wil am See January '91. 85SF = $42.50