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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484.
Super-chancery 2° (307 x 210mm). Collation: [1-88 910] (1/1r blank, 1/1v dedication by Ratdolt to Nicolaus Mocenicus, 1/2r tabula, 2/1r preface, 2/2r woodcuts, 2/2v text, 9/10v blank). 74 leaves. 57 lines, printed foliation in headline, preface in 2 columns, table in 3. Type: 4:76G, 6:56(75)G, 9:130G. 55 woodcuts (including repeats), diagrams, woodcut white-vine initials. (Small wormholes, some staining, mostly marginal, first lower corner renewed.) Early 20th-century brown morocco gilt by J. Haines, Liverpool, tooled to a Renaissance design, wide turn-ins, vellum doublures. Provenance: contemporary inscription deleted from last page – Brother Marini Mauro (16th-century inscription on 1/2r).
Third Ratdolt edition. A fifteenth-century "bestseller", the Fasciculus temporum was printed no less than 31 times before 1500 and was translated into French, German and Dutch. Its complex arrangement centres on a time-line which runs throughout the book, measuring time both from creation and from the birth of Christ. From its first edition it was subject to "stop-press" corrections and up-to-date additions: here the latest event recorded is dated 1481, the date of Ratdolt's second edition. In the present copy fo.1v is in the first state, as one British Library copy (IB. 20536). H *6934; BMC V, 288 (IB. 20536-7); CIBN R-176; BSB-Ink. R-246; Schreiber 5116b; Goff R-270.
Super-chancery 2° (307 x 210mm). Collation: [1-88 910] (1/1r blank, 1/1v dedication by Ratdolt to Nicolaus Mocenicus, 1/2r tabula, 2/1r preface, 2/2r woodcuts, 2/2v text, 9/10v blank). 74 leaves. 57 lines, printed foliation in headline, preface in 2 columns, table in 3. Type: 4:76G, 6:56(75)G, 9:130G. 55 woodcuts (including repeats), diagrams, woodcut white-vine initials. (Small wormholes, some staining, mostly marginal, first lower corner renewed.) Early 20th-century brown morocco gilt by J. Haines, Liverpool, tooled to a Renaissance design, wide turn-ins, vellum doublures. Provenance: contemporary inscription deleted from last page – Brother Marini Mauro (16th-century inscription on 1/2r).
Third Ratdolt edition. A fifteenth-century "bestseller", the Fasciculus temporum was printed no less than 31 times before 1500 and was translated into French, German and Dutch. Its complex arrangement centres on a time-line which runs throughout the book, measuring time both from creation and from the birth of Christ. From its first edition it was subject to "stop-press" corrections and up-to-date additions: here the latest event recorded is dated 1481, the date of Ratdolt's second edition. In the present copy fo.1v is in the first state, as one British Library copy (IB. 20536). H *6934; BMC V, 288 (IB. 20536-7); CIBN R-176; BSB-Ink. R-246; Schreiber 5116b; Goff R-270.
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