Accession number
PML 220
Object title
Von dem Enndkrist.
Uniform title
Antichrist und Die fünfzehn Zeichen.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 'Antichristus' (Heinrich Eggestein?)], [about 1482?]
Description
[22] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): "Hye hebt sich an von dem Enndkrist genomen und geczogen usz vil büchern..."
Listed as Germany, Unassigned by Proctor, BMC (I pp. xxvi & 168) suggests Strassburg as the most likely place of printing and Johann Prüss as the possible printer, but Victor Scholderer's marginal notes in the reprint disproved this. Paul Needham, "Counting Incunables: The ISTC CD-ROM," 518-19, clarified the attribution and followed Scholderer's identification of Heinrich Eggestein as the printer; see also Geldner, Die deutschen Inkunabeldrucker, I: 67.
On the text, see Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon I: 400-01.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁸]: 22 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Die fünfzehn Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Tag begins on leaf [3]/1v.
62 woodcut scenes. Woodcuts previously used in the Jerome, Vitae sanctorum patrum ([Strassburg: Printer of the 'Antichristus' (Heinrich Eggestein?), not after 1482]), ISTC ih00216000.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.5 cm.
Listed as Germany, Unassigned by Proctor, BMC (I pp. xxvi & 168) suggests Strassburg as the most likely place of printing and Johann Prüss as the possible printer, but Victor Scholderer's marginal notes in the reprint disproved this. Paul Needham, "Counting Incunables: The ISTC CD-ROM," 518-19, clarified the attribution and followed Scholderer's identification of Heinrich Eggestein as the printer; see also Geldner, Die deutschen Inkunabeldrucker, I: 67.
On the text, see Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon I: 400-01.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁸]: 22 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Die fünfzehn Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Tag begins on leaf [3]/1v.
62 woodcut scenes. Woodcuts previously used in the Jerome, Vitae sanctorum patrum ([Strassburg: Printer of the 'Antichristus' (Heinrich Eggestein?), not after 1482]), ISTC ih00216000.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
Modern blind-rolled quarter brown goatskin with sides covered in paste paper over paper boards (28.4 x 21.2 cm) by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. Gilt-stamped title on spine.
Variant title
Von dem Entkrist.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombard, capital strokes, and highlighting. Woodcuts hand colored in blue, red, brown, and green (leaves [1]/2v-4r only); others with occasional red highlighting. Annotations: Few marginal annotations noting sources.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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