[Titurel]
Contributors: Mentelin, Johann, approximately 1410-1478, printer; Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century, dubious author
Publisher: Johann Mentelin]
Published: 1477
Place of publication: [Strasbourg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 307
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Jungere Titurel
Notes: Title and imprint from ISTC; date from colophon.

Signatures: [a-o℗£́ʻ p℗£́ʻ(p10+1) q-z℗£́ʻ A-F℗£́ʻ Ǵı H℗£́ʻ] (H9-H10 blank).

Chancery folio; bull's head and "P" watermarks; 40 lines per page; initial spaces with guide letters and spaces for illustrations.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, W-70

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 59 (IB. 558)

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-151A

Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library. [Unpublished MS, 1954-71], 166

Incunabula short title catalogue, iw00070000

Cataloged 20170217 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century brown pigskin tooled in blind. The title is stamped in gilt on the spine. The pastedowns are of modern vellum. The flyleaves are of early paper with a bull's head watermark. Present on the recto of the front flyleaf is an early inscription ("[illegible] historia sine authore"). The initial on [a1] is rubricated, with floral flourishes in brown ink. Initials and capitals are rubricated throughout with one initial in blue. Leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 21.5 cm, with many deckles intact. Manuscript waste sewing guards. The first leaf of each gathering is numbered in early manuscript. Acquired Feb. 9, 1939.