Bod-Inc: R-124
Rolewinck, Werner
Fasciculus temporum.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*1v] ‘Tabula'.
A1r [Rolewinck, Werner: Prologus.] Incipit: ‘ “[G]eneratio et generatio . . . pronunciabunt” [Ps 144,4] scribitur Psalmo 144. Cum non sine multa diligentia . . .’
A2v [Rolewinck, Werner]: Fasciculus temporum. Incipit: ‘ “[I]n principio creauit Deus celum et terram” [Gn 1,1]. Dicit beatus Augustinus . . .’ Explicit: ‘ . . .et non sine thurcorum etiam aliquali strage multorum'. See R‑104; based on Prüss's 1487 edition (R‑123); see BMC.
P4r [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Karolus dux Burgundie primum memoriabile(!) bellum . . .'; explicit: ‘ . . . et non sine Thurcorum etiam aliquali strage multorum'. Includes the death of Charles the Bold, the accession of Innocent VIII, and the sieges of Rhodes and Otranto by the Turks.
Imprint
Imprint: Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, 1488. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] A8 B–P6.
Remarks: Collation as Sheppard.
Leaves: 98 leaves, the last two blank.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ir00274000
Hain: HC Addenda 6937;
Goff: Goff R‑274;
BMC: BMC I 121;
Proctor: Pr 533;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxii, no. 118b; BSB‑Ink R‑249; Sack, Freiburg, 3100; Schramm XX p. 25; Schreiber V 5118; Sheppard 415. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I, CH 72.
LCN: 14110372
Copies
Copy number: R-124(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century parchment; stubs of leather ties on each cover; manuscript title on a paper label on the upper cover; red-edged leaves.
Size: 266 × 194 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 185 mm.
Marginal notes in an early sixteenth-century north European hand, supplying ‘nota' marks and underlining, and extracting key words and personal names.
The woodcuts are painted in various colours. On A1r a four-line initial ‘G' is supplied in red with reserved white decoration. Elsewhere one- to three-line initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Bartolomeus Delbecq (sixteenth/seventeenth-century?); ‘Bartholomeus Delbecq ƺ' on the front pastedown. Anonymous sale (London: Sotheby's, 9 Feb. 1837), lot 299, see R‑116(2); see ‘299 | 7' on a paper label at the base of the spine; one of the items listed in Books Purchased (1837), 33, referred to as ‘fol. Arg. Jo. Pryss, 1488', is probably this copy.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.24.
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