_Fol. 170^a_:
Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._
Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).
On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.
This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.
Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
fifteenth century.
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