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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. [Strassburg: Johann Prüss, not before 1490].
Chancery 2° (271x205mm). Collation: π6 A8 B-P6 (π1r title, π1v full-page woodcut, π2r tabula, A1r preface, A2v text, P5-6 blank). 96 (of 98, without final 2 blank) leaves. 50 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Type: 4:300G (title); 7:156G (headlines), 8:80G (text), some printed guide-letters. 25 woodcuts, including one full-page, from 9 blocks. 2-to 4-line initials in red or blue, one opening the preface in intertwined red and blue, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Light dampstaining, slight wormholes in title without loss, P3 loose, marginal tear in E6 without loss.) Early 16th-century flexible pigskin over pastepaper boards (removed from front cover), blindstamped, remains of ties, printed leaf as binder's waste (light stain and tear on back cover). Provenance: Schlögl, stamp of Bibliotheca Plagensis on title, and Liber plagensis, 17th-century inscription, marginal annotations in several early hands, several singling out events with reference to Bohemia.
This edition of the best-selling world chronicle is one of a few to include a long paragraph in praise of printing (ars artium sciencia scienciarum). It was taken over from the Rougemont edition of 1481, which was printed by Henricus Wirtzburg. In newly editing the text, Wirtzburg added passages on the foundation of Cluny and the origin of the priory of Rougemont; they are retained here as well. H *6916; Goff R-276; Polain(B) 3362; Schreiber 5119; Schramm XX, p.26; IDL 3948; IGI 8425
Chancery 2° (271x205mm). Collation: π6 A8 B-P6 (π1r title, π1v full-page woodcut, π2r tabula, A1r preface, A2v text, P5-6 blank). 96 (of 98, without final 2 blank) leaves. 50 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Type: 4:300G (title); 7:156G (headlines), 8:80G (text), some printed guide-letters. 25 woodcuts, including one full-page, from 9 blocks. 2-to 4-line initials in red or blue, one opening the preface in intertwined red and blue, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Light dampstaining, slight wormholes in title without loss, P3 loose, marginal tear in E6 without loss.) Early 16th-century flexible pigskin over pastepaper boards (removed from front cover), blindstamped, remains of ties, printed leaf as binder's waste (light stain and tear on back cover). Provenance: Schlögl, stamp of Bibliotheca Plagensis on title, and Liber plagensis, 17th-century inscription, marginal annotations in several early hands, several singling out events with reference to Bohemia.
This edition of the best-selling world chronicle is one of a few to include a long paragraph in praise of printing (ars artium sciencia scienciarum). It was taken over from the Rougemont edition of 1481, which was printed by Henricus Wirtzburg. In newly editing the text, Wirtzburg added passages on the foundation of Cluny and the origin of the priory of Rougemont; they are retained here as well. H *6916; Goff R-276; Polain(B) 3362; Schreiber 5119; Schramm XX, p.26; IDL 3948; IGI 8425