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JACOBUS PHILIPPUS FORESTI BERGOMENSIS (1434-1520). Supplementum chronicarum. Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis, 15 February 1492/3.
Super-chancery 2° (313x212mm). Collation: a10 b-z8 8 A-F8 .-B6 (a1r blank, a1v woodcut vignettes within border, a2r text within woodcut border, F8v colophon, printer's device (Husung 194), .1r verses on Rizus by Orlandinus Glerolus, tabula, B5v dedication to Magistrate of Bergamo, B6v blank). 270 leaves. 60 lines and headline. Type: 13:80G (text), 14:130G (headlines). Frontispiece comprised of 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, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Dampstain at fore-edges with several mended affecting text or borders on a few leaves.) Italian 16th-century calf over pastepaper boards, blindstamped, paper label on front cover, (rebacked and restored). Provenance: marginal annotations in an early Italian hand; Heiligenkreuz, Cistercians, Monasterii B.V.M. ad S. Crucem Ord. Cistercien Catalogo inscriptus, 17th-century inscription, stamp.
Third illustrated edition, with additional entries bringing the chronicle up to 1490. 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 (IB. 22654); Goff J-212; Pellechet 2068; Sander 919; IDL 2612; IGI 5079; BSB I-125
Super-chancery 2° (313x212mm). Collation: a10 b-z8 8 A-F8 .-B6 (a1r blank, a1v woodcut vignettes within border, a2r text within woodcut border, F8v colophon, printer's device (Husung 194), .1r verses on Rizus by Orlandinus Glerolus, tabula, B5v dedication to Magistrate of Bergamo, B6v blank). 270 leaves. 60 lines and headline. Type: 13:80G (text), 14:130G (headlines). Frontispiece comprised of 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, 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Dampstain at fore-edges with several mended affecting text or borders on a few leaves.) Italian 16th-century calf over pastepaper boards, blindstamped, paper label on front cover, (rebacked and restored). Provenance: marginal annotations in an early Italian hand; Heiligenkreuz, Cistercians, Monasterii B.V.M. ad S. Crucem Ord. Cistercien Catalogo inscriptus, 17th-century inscription, stamp.
Third illustrated edition, with additional entries bringing the chronicle up to 1490. 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 (IB. 22654); Goff J-212; Pellechet 2068; Sander 919; IDL 2612; IGI 5079; BSB I-125