Content: 1. 2a: (D)O ich Johan von Monteuilla Ritter/Geborn vffz En
Content: 1. 83a: (J)Ch Otto von Diemringen Thůherre zů Metze in ???
Content: Colophon, 1. 87b: Getruckt zů Strafzburg
Content: Schreiber 4801. Klebs: Incunabula scientifica et medica, 651.4. Schramm, XX, p. 9. Hind: Introduction to a history of woodcut, II, 337-338. Cordier: Mandeville, p. 18. Stillwell: Second census, M144.
Content: Gothic type; 41 lines. With initials, signature marks, and xylographic title and headlines; without catchwords and foliation.
Content: Signatures: a-b(8), c-d(6), e(8), f(6), g(8), h(6) i-m(8). Sig. b(4), C(2) wrongly marked b(2) C(3). Sig. m(8) blank.
Content: Illustrations: 155 woodcuts of various sizes (Schramm, XX, 1030-1097, 1099-1129, 1131-1139, 1141-1184) including 2 repeats and 8 alphabets. Most are copies of the cuts in Richel's Basel edition of 1481? (cf. Schramm, XXI, 398-552 and Fairfax Murray 283). Two of the other cuts had previously appeared in the edition of the Antichrist legend printed probably at Strasbourg about 1482 (GW 2050). Initials, of several sizes and styles, including 2 pictorial initials (Schramm, XX, 1187, 1190; Jennings, p. 44, 155) and a long calligraphic J.
Content: Imperfect: several leaves slightly mutilated and repaired, last leaf (blank) wanting.
Content: With monogram label of Baron Horace de Landau and his ms. note indicating presentation to him by [Freiherr J. M. C. von] Lassberg.
Content: Binding, by Duru, 1848, of green morocco, gilt.