Marcolphus
Publisher: Johann Koelhoff the Elder
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: ger
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Medieval Wit and humor
Work titles: Salomon et Marcolphus German (Low German)
Notes: Imprint from ISTC.

Text begins (leaf a1v): Hyer heuet sick an een wedderspraeke Salomons tege[n] ene[n] wanschape[n] mynschen ghehete[n] Marcolphus en buere doch was he klock in syne[n] worde[n].

Text ends (leaf c5v): Aldus vorlete[n] ene des koni[n]ghes denere. vn[d] he gingk wed[der] in syn hus. vnd starff in dem vrede Amen.

Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶ (c6 blank).

Title-page woodcut of King Salomon with Marcolphus and his wife.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Goff, S-103.

Borchling & Claussen, 171.

Frantzen & Hulshof. Drei Kölner Schwankbücher aus dem XVten Jahrhundert, p. 45.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), is00103000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 386.