Chronica Hungarorum.

Accession number:

PML 125399

Author:

Thuróczy, János, approximately 1435-

Published:

Auguste : Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt ... impensis siquidem Theobaldi Feger, millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimooctavo tertio nonas Iunij [3 June 1488].

Description:

[174] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1993. NNPM

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y9v: Serenissimoru[m] hungarie regu[m] chronica bene revisa ac fideli studio emendata finit feliciter. Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt viri solertissimi eximia industria et mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper Venetijs nu[n]c Auguste excellet nominatissimus. Impensis siquidem Theobaldi Feger concivis Budensis Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is millesimo q[ua]dringentesimo octogesimooctavo tertio nonas Iunij. [Publisher's mark].
Printed in Ratdolt's type 7:92G.
Sigantures: [1²]; a-g⁸ h⁶ i¹⁰ k-o⁸ p⁶ q-t⁸ v⁴; x⁸ y¹⁰: 174 leaves, leaves v3-4, and y10 blank. (Perhaps 2nd issue is only 172 leaves, with v².)
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts. Woodcut on leaf [1]/2r has typographic title "Hystoria sancti ladislai." within woodcut, crowns cut away from two female figures.
The preface is printed in gold in two vellum copies in Budapest. For variants see Sajó-Soltész and BMC. Woodcuts.
Morgan copy is 1st issue, with leaf v2r, line 15 (not 13 as in BMC): "...expugnauit. Post hec..." and Chronica ending on leaf v2v. NNPM
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 17 cm. NNPM
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: v4 (blank). NNPM

Binding:

15th-century German blind-tooled dark brown calf over wooden boards (25 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, some stamps attributed to the Ebersberg binderies I and II (EBDB w002320, active about 1477-89 and w002321, active about 1480-1507, also known as Benediktinerkloster Ebersberg); rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns (original) and endleaves (renewed). 1 clasp. In a folding box by Julia Wightman, 1944. NNPM

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Some woodcuts colored by contemporary hand; those on leaves [1]/1v-2r with modern (19th-century?) coloring. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. NNPM

Provenance:

Unidentified early inscriptions (leaves [1]/2v and rear pastedown); Julia P. Wightman, donated to: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books