Fascicul[us] te[m]poru[m] o[mn]es antiquoru[m] crnoicas [com]plecte[n]s

Accession number:

PML 25131

Author:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.

Published:

Ab alma universitate Coloniensis : impressum per me Henricum Quentel, 1480.

Description:

[72] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, charts); 41 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf A2v: Fascicul[us] te[m]poru[m] o[mn]es antiquoru[m] crnoicas [com]plecte[n]s: admissus ab alma vniuersitate Colon[iensis]. Incipit feliciter.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h6v: Imp[re]ssum p[er] me Henricu[m] quentel Et admissu[m] ab alma vniuersitate Colonien[sis]. Explicit feliciter. Sub anno d[omi]ni 1480. Laus deo.
Printed in Quentell's type 1:102G.
PML Checklist attributed to Quentell's first press.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁶ b⁸ c-e⁶ f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i⁶: 72 leaves, leaf A1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcuts, including a view of Cologne (leaf c2v) and the Three Kings before the Virgin and Child (leaf c3r, also found in many of Quentell's title-page borders).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.4 x 29.2 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary Austrian blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (41 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports, bound at the Benedictine monastery of Lambach (Lambach Benediktinerkloster, EBDB w002363, active 1443-1500). Plain paper pastedowns. Manuscript waste as quire guards and binding reinforcement. 2 clasps.

Variant Title:

Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas conplectens

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (primary initial with green penwork decoration). Woodcuts highlighted in red and yellow. Red foliation. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript numeric signatures.

Provenance:

Lambach (Austria), Benedictines, binding and title/shelfmark labels: A 46 (front board); Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), Kat. 87, Seltene Drucke des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts (1927), no. 149; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Dec. 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books