Details

Other Title:

Disz lied sagt von Lucretia, wie sie umb ir ere kam, unnd sich selbs ertödtet

Fingerprint:

kttz n.we r-am afe, (C) 1520 (Q)

Subjects:

Lucretia -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Lucretia.

Form/Genre:

Poetry.

Place of Publication:

France Strasbourg.

Notes:

Text signed at end: Ludwig Binder ... hatt das gedicht volendt vnnd ist yetz ausse.
Colophon on leaf [A]4r, which reads: Getruckt zů Strassburg.
Printer's name from VD 16; imprint date from Nehlsen.
Signatures: [A]⁴.
Leaves [A]2 and [A]3 signed "ij" and "iij", respectively.
Woodcut title illustration (three figures seated at table with a fourth standing figure serving them) and initial.

Local notes:

RBC copy has modern ms. note ("Poem by Ludwig Binder") in pencil on front free endpaper; modern ms. numeral ("2126") in pencil on recto and verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf; a few modern ms. marks and marginal notes in pencil in text.
RBC copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 1899.
RBC copy has laid in no. 10 envelope addressed in ms. ("University of PA. Philadelphia, PA Library") in blue ink with uncancelled red three-cent Clara Barton stamp (issued 1948) affixed.
RBC copy bound in one quarter cloth over marbled boards; ms. paper label ("Binder, Ludwig. Disz lied sagt von Lucretia") on left board; paper label with call number on left board; remains of paper spine label.
RBC copy: lower portion of leaves dampstained.

Penn Provenance:

Bechstein Library (bookplate)

Penn Chronology:

1520-1521 (between)

Cited in:

VD 16 B 5511
Nehlsen, E. Liedflugschriften des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Q-1620

Contributor:

Matthias Schürer Erben, printer.

OCLC:

912025884

Web link:

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