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JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO. Supplementum chronicarum. Venice: Bernardus Rizus, Novariensis, 15 February 1492/93.
Super-chancery 2o (313 x 211 mm). Collation: a10 b-z8 \\i \\n \\g8 A-F8-2 A-B6 (a1r title, a1v woodcut vignettes within border, a2r text within woodcut border, F8v colophon, printer's device [Husung 194], 2A1r verses on Rizus by Orlandinus Glerolus, tabula, B5v dedication to Magistrate of Bergamo, B6v blank). 270 leaves; 2A-B6 bound at front. 60 lines and headline. Type: 13:80G, 14:130G. Frontispiece comprising woodcut vignettes of the six days of Creation enclosed within woodcut border, border repeated on first text page, 46 woodcuts from 39 blocks, woodcut initial on a2r, 2- to 6-line initials in red or blue, printed guide-letters. (A few occasional pale stains, generally crisp and fresh.) Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two French 14th-century vellum manuscript leaves used as endleaves (restored, one clasp missing).
Provenance: William Cosyn, Dean of Wells Cathedral (inscription ca 1500 on rear endleaf); John Godard (inscription ca 1550 beneath Cosyn's); William Howard (1563-1640), fourth Duke of Norfolk, commissioner of the borders, known as "Bauld Willie" and characterized by Sir Walter Scott as "Belted Will" (inscription dated 1587 on first leaf); Clifford Rattey (bookplate); acquired from Maggs Bros., 1973.
Third illustrated edition, augmented with chronicle entries up to 1490. Many of the woodcuts are from the first illustrated edition (1486) but Rizus had several city views (including Rome, Venice, Genoa and Verona) improved and recut for his 1490 edition. To the present edition he added the borders which had appeared earlier the same year in the Italian Legenda aurea printed by Bonellis, and the frontispiece Creation and a small Noah's ark cut, both from the Malermi Bible of 1490. HC *2809; BMC V, 404, (IB. 22654); IGI 5079; CIBN J-144; BSB-Ink I-125; Bod-inc. J-91; Sander 919; Essling 345; Goff J-212.
[Bound with:]
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus (3rd century?). Epitome in Trogi Pompeii historias. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. Revised by Justinianus Romanus. [Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis and Albertinus Vercellensis, after 1489-90.]
Super-chancery 2o. Collation: a-i6. 54 leaves. Type 82R. Capital spaces. 6-line initials in red. (Pale marginal dampstian in lower corner of last two gatherings.)
HC *9654; BMC V, 421; Goff J-620.
Super-chancery 2o (313 x 211 mm). Collation: a10 b-z8 \\i \\n \\g8 A-F8-2 A-B6 (a1r title, a1v woodcut vignettes within border, a2r text within woodcut border, F8v colophon, printer's device [Husung 194], 2A1r verses on Rizus by Orlandinus Glerolus, tabula, B5v dedication to Magistrate of Bergamo, B6v blank). 270 leaves; 2A-B6 bound at front. 60 lines and headline. Type: 13:80G, 14:130G. Frontispiece comprising woodcut vignettes of the six days of Creation enclosed within woodcut border, border repeated on first text page, 46 woodcuts from 39 blocks, woodcut initial on a2r, 2- to 6-line initials in red or blue, printed guide-letters. (A few occasional pale stains, generally crisp and fresh.) Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two French 14th-century vellum manuscript leaves used as endleaves (restored, one clasp missing).
Provenance: William Cosyn, Dean of Wells Cathedral (inscription ca 1500 on rear endleaf); John Godard (inscription ca 1550 beneath Cosyn's); William Howard (1563-1640), fourth Duke of Norfolk, commissioner of the borders, known as "Bauld Willie" and characterized by Sir Walter Scott as "Belted Will" (inscription dated 1587 on first leaf); Clifford Rattey (bookplate); acquired from Maggs Bros., 1973.
Third illustrated edition, augmented with chronicle entries up to 1490. Many of the woodcuts are from the first illustrated edition (1486) but Rizus had several city views (including Rome, Venice, Genoa and Verona) improved and recut for his 1490 edition. To the present edition he added the borders which had appeared earlier the same year in the Italian Legenda aurea printed by Bonellis, and the frontispiece Creation and a small Noah's ark cut, both from the Malermi Bible of 1490. HC *2809; BMC V, 404, (IB. 22654); IGI 5079; CIBN J-144; BSB-Ink I-125; Bod-inc. J-91; Sander 919; Essling 345; Goff J-212.
[Bound with:]
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus (3rd century?). Epitome in Trogi Pompeii historias. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. Revised by Justinianus Romanus. [Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis and Albertinus Vercellensis, after 1489-90.]
Super-chancery 2o. Collation: a-i6. 54 leaves. Type 82R. Capital spaces. 6-line initials in red. (Pale marginal dampstian in lower corner of last two gatherings.)
HC *9654; BMC V, 421; Goff J-620.