Historical Texts in Latin -- Cromer (Martin, Bishop of Ermland): De Origine et Rebus Gestis Polonorum Libri XXX, Basle, per Ioannem Oporinum, 1555, folio, heraldic woodcut on title, two woodcut portraits, woodcut initials (title wormed affecting heraldic device and portrait on verso, generally rather browned), contemporary vellum (spine worn at extremities) [Adams 2976; Brunet VI, 27820; Graesse II, 303] -- Schard (Simon, editor): Germanicum Rerum Quatuor Celebriores Vetustioresque Chronographi, Earum Descriptionem ab orbe condito usque ad tempora Henrici IV Imperatoris, Frankfurt, [colophon: apud Georgium Corvinum, Sigismundum Feyrabend, & Haeredes Wigandi Galli], 1566, folio, woodcut printer's device on title and colophon (title with old ownership inscription, also slightly damaged by library stamp), contemporary calf (spine worn) [Adams G488; Potthast 705, 956, 1016 and 1075]; and 3 other folio histories, one in manuscript. (5)

Historical Texts in Latin -- Cromer (Martin, Bishop of Ermland): De Origine et Rebus Gestis Polonorum Libri XXX, Basle, per Ioannem Oporinum, 1555, folio, heraldic woodcut on title, two woodcut portraits, woodcut initials (title wormed affecting heraldic device and portrait on verso, generally rather browned), contemporary vellum (spine worn at extremities) [Adams 2976; Brunet VI, 27820; Graesse II, 303] -- Schard (Simon, editor): Germanicum Rerum Quatuor Celebriores Vetustioresque Chronographi, Earum Descriptionem ab orbe condito usque ad tempora Henrici IV Imperatoris, Frankfurt, [colophon: apud Georgium Corvinum, Sigismundum Feyrabend, & Haeredes Wigandi Galli], 1566, folio, woodcut printer's device on title and colophon (title with old ownership inscription, also slightly damaged by library stamp), contemporary calf (spine worn) [Adams G488; Potthast 705, 956, 1016 and 1075]; and 3 other folio histories, one in manuscript. (5)

细节

Historical Texts in Latin -- Cromer (Martin, Bishop of Ermland): De Origine et Rebus Gestis Polonorum Libri XXX, Basle, per Ioannem Oporinum, 1555, folio, heraldic woodcut on title, two woodcut portraits, woodcut initials (title wormed affecting heraldic device and portrait on verso, generally rather browned), contemporary vellum (spine worn at extremities) [Adams 2976; Brunet VI, 27820; Graesse II, 303] -- Schard (Simon, editor): Germanicum Rerum Quatuor Celebriores Vetustioresque Chronographi, Earum Descriptionem ab orbe condito usque ad tempora Henrici IV Imperatoris, Frankfurt, [colophon: apud Georgium Corvinum, Sigismundum Feyrabend, & Haeredes Wigandi Galli], 1566, folio, woodcut printer's device on title and colophon (title with old ownership inscription, also slightly damaged by library stamp), contemporary calf (spine worn) [Adams G488; Potthast 705, 956, 1016 and 1075]; and 3 other folio histories, one in manuscript. (5)

拍品专文

Martin Cromer (1512-89) wrote his extensive and detailed history of Poland first in Polish, but gained international reputation with this Latin translation. The second work is one of the earliest collections of 'Rerum Germanicum Scriptores', occasioned by the awakening of interest in the history of the Middle Ages, particularly in regard to the Church. It contains Turpin's Chronicle of Charlemagne and Roland, Regino of Pruem's Chronicon, Sigbert of Gembloux's History, and the Chronicle of Lambert of Hersfeld.