Author: Johannes von Tepl, also known as Johannes von Saaz.<\/p>
Title from incipit on leaf [a2] recto (fol. 2).<\/p>
Title as cited by ISTC: Ackermann von Böhmen.<\/p>
Imprint from ISTC.<\/p>
Printed in Pfister's type 1:165G.<\/p>
Signatures: [a¹\u2074 b\u2078 c²].<\/p>
Paper format: Chancery folio.<\/p>
28 lines to a page.<\/p>
Without foliation or signatures.<\/p>
Illustrations: 5 full-page woodcuts.<\/p>
Initial spaces.<\/p>
ISTC note: The single leaves registered derive from an imperfect copy formerly bound with the copies of Pfister's Lis Belial and Biblia pauperum now at Manchester JRL (C. Kiening, Schwierige Modernität: der \"Ackermann\" des Johannes von Tepl und die Ambiguität historischen Wandels (Tübingen, 1998), p. 498).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir, 1771-1823; Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834; Karmelitenkloster (Würzburg, Germany)" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "
Early nineteenth-century full dark blue straight-grain goatskin over thin wooden boards; blind-tooled border and inner frame of fillets and rolls, the border with a blind foliate tool in each corner; sewn on five recessed cords; six false raised bands; spine blind-tooled and gilt-lettered directly 'BAMBERG / ALBRECHT PFISTER / 1462 / BIBLIA PAUPERUM'; gilt fillet on board edges with diagonal lines at the corners; gilt zig-zag roll with annulets on turn-ins; bluish-grey paper endpapers; all edges gilt. Late nineteenth-century gilt monogram of the John Rylands Library (JR in roundel) stamped on upper cover.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "
Part of the library of the Earls Spencer, acquired in 1892 by Enriqueta Rylands from John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer, for The John Rylands Library.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Ackermann aus Böhmen (Death and the ploughman)" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)" }, { "label": "Project Information", "value": "
Created as part of the Incunabula Cataloguing Project, funded by the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, and the research project: '\u2018Werck der bücher\u2019 Transitions, experimentation, and collaboration in reprographic technologies, 1440\u20131470', funded by the AHRC/DFG. John Gandy is Project Cataloguer on the Incunabula Cataloguing Project. 'Werck der bücher' is led by Dr Stephen Mossman, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, (SALC), University of Manchester, and Edward Potten, Principal Consultant, Department of History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, (SALC), University of Manchester.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Publication", "value": "Bamberg: Albrecht Pfister" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "about 1463" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Germany, Bamberg" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "[G]rȳmiger abtilger aller leut schedlicher echt[er] vn[d] veruolger aller werlt. Fraissamer morder aller me[n]sche[n]. Ir tod euch sei verflucht; Grymmiger abtilger aller leut schedlicher echter vnd veruolger aller werlt. Fraissamer morder aller menschen. Ir tod euch sei verflucht; Grymmiger abtilger aller leut schedlicher echter und vervolger aller werlt. Fraissamer morder aller menschen. Ir tod euch sei verflucht" }, { "label": "Printer(s)", "value": "Pfister, Albrecht, approximately 1420-approximately 1470" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "German" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "24 leaves. Leaf height: 229 mm, width: 151 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "15019.2" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Death--Early works to 1800; Death in literature--Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800; Blind tooled bindings (Binding)--England--19th century; Goatskin bindings (Binding)--England--19th century; Rubrication (Decoration)--Germany--15th century" }, { "label": "Physical Description", "value": "
Leaf [b8] (fol. 22) only, containing text on the recto and the full-page woodcut of the judgement of God (Death and the ploughman appear before God seated on a throne, between two angels, under a sky dotted with stars) on the verso. Beneath the text on the recto is written in black ink \"Tribunal mortis\". The whole leaf has been ruled in red, remargined and mounted on a leaf of old paper in which a window has been cut to hold the Ackermann aus Böhmen leaf. Written in pencil in an unknown late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century hand in the lower margin on the verso is \"The Book of Fables bound up with this[?] and with the same type is[?] dated 1461, see p. 13 ...\", the rest is illegible.<\/p>
Leaves, heavily cut down.<\/p>
Decoration: capital strokes supplied in red; the woodcut is hand-coloured.<\/p>
Evidence of an early three figure leaf number, mostly cropped off, on the recto.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
An allegorical court action in which a bereaved ploughman sues Death over the loss of his wife.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Incunable Collection" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "