Fasciculus tempo[rum] en francois : Cest le fardelet hystorial [con]tenant en brief quali toutes les hystoires tant de lancien testament que du nouveau Et generallement tous les merveilleux faitz dignes de memoire q[ui] ont este de puys la creation iusques a cestuy an. M.CCCC.lxxxxv.

Accession number: 
PML 36048
Author: 
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.
Published: 
Imprime a genesue : [Printer of Rolewinck, 'Fasciculus temporum' (Jean Belot)], Lan mille CCCC.xCv [1495, after 12 May].
Description: 
[96] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1940.
Notes: 

Title from leaf A1r.
Printing city and date from colophon, leaf M7v: Cy finit la table de ce present livre appelle le fascicule ou auttrement le fardelet hystorial. Imprime a genesue [sic] Lan mille CCCC.xCv. au quel an fist si tresgra[n]t vent le ix. iour de ianvier quil fist remonter le rosne dede[n]s le lac bien ung quart de lieve au dessus de genesue [sic] [et] se[n]usoit estre une mo[n]taigne deave. [et] duta bie[n] lespace dune heure que leave ne povoit descendre.
Pritned in Belot's types 1:114G and 2:92G.
On the identity of the printer (designated by GW the Printer of the 'Fardelet du temps'), see H. Delarue in Genava 3 (1925) pp.297-307.
Dated after CIBN.
Signatures: A-M⁸: 96 leaves, leaf M8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 50-51 lines. Printed initials, woodcuts.
First part of title is xylographic.
Translated by Pierre Farget.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: M8 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern (French?) gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Thompson (cited in Desq catalogue). Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Le fardelet hystorial

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Felix Solar; his sale, Paris, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 2502; Henri Leonhard Bordier (1817-1888), "Ex Musaeo Castellanae Genevensium, HLB" bookplate, 1874 (front pastedown); P. Desq, gilt booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Lyon, 25 April 1886, lot 922; T.R., unidentified monogram (front fly leaf verso); Gaspard Ernest Stroehlin (1844-1907), "Mente libera, GES" bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Paris, part II, 12-16 Feb. 1912, lot 1011, for fr.1.140; Edouard Rahir (1862-1924), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Paris, part II, 6-8 May 1931, lot 307, to Bernard Quaritch for fr.6000; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, March 1940.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books