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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484.
A fifteenth-century ‘bestseller’, the Fasciculus temporum was printed no fewer than 31 times before 1500 and was translated into French, German and Dutch. Its complex arrangement centres on a time-line which runs throughout the book, measuring time both from creation and from the birth of Christ. From its first edition it was subject to ‘stop-press’ corrections and up-to-date additions: here the latest event recorded is dated 1481, the date of Ratdolt's second edition; the book itself is the third Ratdolt edition. The invention of printing is on f.64. H *6934; BMC V, 288 (IB. 20536-7); BSB-Ink. R-246; CIBN R-176; Schreiber 5116b; Goff R-270.
Chancery folio (250 x 190mm). 55 woodcuts (including repeats), diagrams, white-vine initials, rubricated, the woodcuts coloured by a near contemporary hand (first leaf cut down and mounted on ?18th-century paper, small wormtrack on front free endpaper with associated tiny wormhole just into edge of initial on first leaf, this latter extending into the following leaf just touching one letter, f.2 with 45mm closed tear barely affecting text on verso, fos 23-33 with short wormtrack, mostly marginal, but affecting a couple of letters, f.65 with 15mm closed tear barely affecting 2 lines of text on verso, a few leaves cropped close by the binder, sometimes into foliation and marginalia). Modern sheep (rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: early marginal annotations.
A fifteenth-century ‘bestseller’, the Fasciculus temporum was printed no fewer than 31 times before 1500 and was translated into French, German and Dutch. Its complex arrangement centres on a time-line which runs throughout the book, measuring time both from creation and from the birth of Christ. From its first edition it was subject to ‘stop-press’ corrections and up-to-date additions: here the latest event recorded is dated 1481, the date of Ratdolt's second edition; the book itself is the third Ratdolt edition. The invention of printing is on f.64. H *6934; BMC V, 288 (IB. 20536-7); BSB-Ink. R-246; CIBN R-176; Schreiber 5116b; Goff R-270.
Chancery folio (250 x 190mm). 55 woodcuts (including repeats), diagrams, white-vine initials, rubricated, the woodcuts coloured by a near contemporary hand (first leaf cut down and mounted on ?18th-century paper, small wormtrack on front free endpaper with associated tiny wormhole just into edge of initial on first leaf, this latter extending into the following leaf just touching one letter, f.2 with 45mm closed tear barely affecting text on verso, fos 23-33 with short wormtrack, mostly marginal, but affecting a couple of letters, f.65 with 15mm closed tear barely affecting 2 lines of text on verso, a few leaves cropped close by the binder, sometimes into foliation and marginalia). Modern sheep (rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: early marginal annotations.
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