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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 21 December 1481.
Super-chancery 2° (310 x 204mm). Collation: [1-98] (1/1 blank, 1/2r tabula, 2/1r author's preface, 2/2r woodcut of God creating the world surmounted by cosmological diagram of the Creation, 2/2v text, 9/8v colophon). 64 leaves (of 72, lacking first quire). 50 lines with headline. Type: 6:56(75)G. One 10-line and one 6-line woodcut ornamental initial, 25 woodcuts repeated to 68 (Redgrave count), woodcut roundels. (Some spotting and minor worming, a few woodcuts stained, marginal tear in last leaf.) 18th-century speckled sheep over pasteboard, gilt spine, red-speckled edges. Provenance: Nicolo Brasaeco (deleted 16th-century inscription) -- Lucretius Palladius (inscription dated 1670).
Third Venetian and second Ratdolt edition of Rolewinck's chronology of the world. The text of this edition is a page-for-page reprint of the earlier Venetian editions, but with an additional note on the death in May 1481 (and descent into Hell) of Sultan Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. HC *6928; BMC V, 285 (IB. 20508); IGI 8416; Oates 6527; Polain (B) 3374; Redgrave 21; Essling 278; Sander 6527; Schreiber 5113a; Goff R-264.
Super-chancery 2° (310 x 204mm). Collation: [1-9
Third Venetian and second Ratdolt edition of Rolewinck's chronology of the world. The text of this edition is a page-for-page reprint of the earlier Venetian editions, but with an additional note on the death in May 1481 (and descent into Hell) of Sultan Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. HC *6928; BMC V, 285 (IB. 20508); IGI 8416; Oates 6527; Polain (B) 3374; Redgrave 21; Essling 278; Sander 6527; Schreiber 5113a; Goff R-264.
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