Fasciculus tempo[rum]: omnes antiquo[rum] cronicas complectens.

Accession number:

PML 324

Author:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.

Published:

Venetiis : Singulari industria atq[ue] impensa Georij Walch Almani, 1479.

Description:

[8], 29 [i.e. 64] numbered leaves : illustrated (woodcuts, diagrams) ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf 2v): Fasciculus tempo[rum]: omnes antiquo[rum] cronicas complectens: incipit feliciter.
Colophon (leaf 64r): Chronica q[ue] d[icitu]r Fascicul[us] tempo[rum], edita in alma universitate Colonie Agrippine a quoda[m] devoto Cartusiensi, [et] imp[re]ssa Venetijs singulari industria atq[ue] impensa Georij Walch Almani, a[n]no D[omi]ni 1479, Sixto Quarto Pontifice Maximo, finit feliciter.
Printed in type
Signatures: [1⁸; 2-9⁸]: 72 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Published anonymously. By Werner Rolevinck. Cf. New Cath. encycl.
"Apparently set up from the Ther Hoernen 8-leaf-index issue, with added matter from the '1476' Veldener edition"--Goff. "The addendum on the death of Charles the Bold beginning 'Karolus dux Burgundie' ... seems to occur in no earlier edition"--BM 15th cent.
Errors in paging. Leaf 64 misnumbered 29.
Includes index, quire [1].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century quarter cloth with marbled paper sides over paper boards (27 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; sprinkled edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, only required in index (quire [1]). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Formerly part of an unidentified Sammelband, foliated 174-244; George Charles Bright, M.D. (b. 1840), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 98, 7/5/95 (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Marbled papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books