CONTENT:
Capita totius operis -- Geographia -- Anthropologia -- Philologia -- Xenophontis Oeconomicus
BINDING:
Rebound. Artificial wood veneer over pasteboards. Hollow backed. Cased-in (possibly perfect bound). Headband and tailband present. Green leather label with gold stamping on spine reads: GESSNER │ VOGELBUCH │ 1583.
CONDITION:
Binding -- Rebound: wood veneer over boards.
Pages -- large sections of the book are missing. The leaves that are present are heavily damaged. Some restoration effort has been made, but some of the text has been lost.
Generally poor condition.
DEDICATIONS:
To the Burgermeister of Zurich, to Rudolf Heusslin, to the Church of Jesus Christ (2a2v)
To the Reader (2a4v)
FORMAT:
2°: 2a6 a-z6 A-T6 V4 X6 (-X6) [$4 signed (-2a1, -V4)]. Missing due to mutilation: gathers B6, C6, S6; leaves R4, R5, R6, T1, T2, T3, T4. Collation reflecting condition: 2°: 2a6 a-z6 A6 D-Q6 R6(-R4, -1R5, -R6) T6(-T1, -T2, -T3, -T4) V4 X6(-X6). Leaves: 242, ff. [6] I-XLVII, XLVIII, XLVIIII-LI, LII, LIII-CXLIIII, CLVII-CCXXXVII, CCLI-CCLXI [=238 ff.]. Boards measure: 34 x 22.5 cm. Leaves measure: 33.8 x 22 cm.
MARGINALIA:
Printed Marginalia: Light explanatory note and only in the preliminaries.
Handwritten Notes: There are few handwritten notes, however there are 12 fully coloured and 2 partially coloured woodcuts in this copy. The coloured image on ff. XVIr has what appears to be a signature that reads: Angel. All of the woodcuts in this copy have been numbered in red pencil crayon. This may have been done before this copy lost some of its gathers, as the sequence is interrupted when a missing section occurs (alternatively someone could have been using a completed copy to number the illustrations).
OTHER:
Inserted loosely at the beginning of gather N6 there is a half leaf of text. This seems to be the replacement text for 6M6, which is missing due to damage. However, the inserted half leaf, while the correct text, has not been typeset the same. It also bears a signature mark of N, but that would place it one leaf to early. What edition this text comes from is unknown.
TITLE PAGE:
[Bold denotes blackletter]Vogelbůch │ Darinn die art natur vnnd eigenſchafft │ aller bögel/ ſampt irer waren Contrafactur/ angezeigt wirdt: │ allen Liebhaberen der kunſten/ Argeten/ Maleren/ Goldſchmiden/ Bildſchnige- │ ten/ Seydenſtickeren/ Weydleiiten vunnd Köchen/ nit allein luſtig zů erfaren ſun- │ der gantz nutzlich vnd dienſtlich zebrauchen. Erſtlich durch Doctor Con- │ radt Geẞner in Latin beſchriben: neüwlich aber durch Růdolff │ Heüẞlin mit fleyẞ in das Teütſch gebracht/ vnnd │ in ein kurge ordnung geſtelt. │ Wit Keyſerlicher Waieſtat freyhe [rest of line missing] │ Getrutkt zů Zurych bey Chriſtoffel <Froschauer>│ im iarlas man zalt M. D. LXX<XI>TYPE:
Blackletter with some Roman.