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JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (1434-1520). Supplementum chronicarum. Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis, 15 February 1492/3.
Third illustrated edition, with additional entries bringing the chronicle up to 1490. In reporting the invention of printing, Jacobus dates it to 1458 and attributes it to either Gutenberg or Fust. Many of the woodcuts were taken over from the first illustrated edition of 1486, but Rizus for his 1490 edition improved several of the city views, notably Rome, Venice, Genoa and Verona, and added building the Tower of Babel. In this, his next edition, Rizus also added the woodcut borders which had appeared earlier that same year in the Italian Legenda Aurea printed by Bonellis, and the frontispiece of Creation and a small woodcut of Noah's ark, both from the Malermi Bible of 1490. HC *2809; BMC V, 404; BSB I-125; IGI 5079; Essling 343; Sander 919; ISTC ij00212000; Goff J-212.
Super-chancery folio (309 x 210mm). Frontispiece comprising woodcut vignettes of the six days of Creation enclosed within woodcut border, same border used on first text page, 46 woodcuts from 39 blocks, woodcut initial on a2r, printer's device [Husung 194], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Small wormholes in first and last quire effecting a few letters and in woodcut, some marginal staining or spotting, occasional light stain elsewhere, title lightly soiled.) Modern binding reusing vellum leaves for a 15th-century choir book.
Third illustrated edition, with additional entries bringing the chronicle up to 1490. In reporting the invention of printing, Jacobus dates it to 1458 and attributes it to either Gutenberg or Fust. Many of the woodcuts were taken over from the first illustrated edition of 1486, but Rizus for his 1490 edition improved several of the city views, notably Rome, Venice, Genoa and Verona, and added building the Tower of Babel. In this, his next edition, Rizus also added the woodcut borders which had appeared earlier that same year in the Italian Legenda Aurea printed by Bonellis, and the frontispiece of Creation and a small woodcut of Noah's ark, both from the Malermi Bible of 1490. HC *2809; BMC V, 404; BSB I-125; IGI 5079; Essling 343; Sander 919; ISTC ij00212000; Goff J-212.
Super-chancery folio (309 x 210mm). Frontispiece comprising woodcut vignettes of the six days of Creation enclosed within woodcut border, same border used on first text page, 46 woodcuts from 39 blocks, woodcut initial on a2r, printer's device [Husung 194], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Small wormholes in first and last quire effecting a few letters and in woodcut, some marginal staining or spotting, occasional light stain elsewhere, title lightly soiled.) Modern binding reusing vellum leaves for a 15th-century choir book.
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