Bod-Inc: R-125
Rolewinck, Werner
Fasciculus temporum.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*1v] [Woodcut.]
[*2r] ‘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 . . .’ See R‑104; based on Prüss's 1488 edition (R‑124).
P4r [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Karolus dux Burgundie primum memoriale(!) 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, not before 1490]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] A8 B–P6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ir00275000
Hain: HC 6915;
Goff: Goff R‑275;
BMC: BMC I 127;
Proctor: Pr 571;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxii, no. 122; BSB‑Ink R‑250; CIBN R‑179; Oates 215; Rhodes 1526; Sack, Freiburg, 3101; Schramm XX p. 27; Schreiber V 5120; Sheppard 435-7. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I, CH 73.
LCN: 14110306, 14110381, 14111764
Copies
Copy number: R-125(1)
Wanting the blank leaves P5–6.
Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; the spine gold-tooled; sprinkled red- and black-edged leaves.
Size: 268 × 203 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 189 mm.
Marginal notes in contemporary German hands in red and black ink, providing additions to the table, ‘nota' marks, brackets, pointing hands, underlining, a few comments (e.g. ‘vix credo') and additions to the text, including (on P4v) a note on the truce of 1521 in the last Teutonic War (1519-21): ‘Item Anno domini 1521 facta est pacis tranquillitas in partibus Prusie inter cruciferos [i.e. Teutonic Knights] et regem Polonie, qui ambo deuastarunt terram Prutenicam ubique et hospitalia Sancti Gerdrudis ad corpus domini facit(?) ad angelos . . . contra ciuitatem Gedanensem prachdolor(?) ad 4 annos . . . esse mutuo in pace'.
In the table initials and underlining are supplied in red ink. A four-line initial ‘G' is supplied in red on A1r.
Provenance: Anonymous sale (London: Sotheby's, 9 Feb. 1837), lot 299, see R‑116(2); one of the items listed in Books Purchased (1837), 33, referred to as ‘ed. alt. ibid. [i.e. Arg. Jo. Gallensis] 1490', is probably this copy; see the remains of an octagonal Sotheby's label at the base of the spine.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.29.
Copy number: R-125(2)
Bound with G‑147(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 270 × 180 mm.
Wanting the blank leaf P6.
Bibliographical notes in a seventeenth-century German hand on [*1r].
SHELFMARK: Douce 183(2).
Copy number: R-125(3)
Bound with:
2. Hegesippus, De bello iudaico. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, for Gottfried Hittorp, 1525);
3. Orosius, Historiae. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, for Gottfried Hittorp, 1526).
Wanting the blank leaf P6.
Sheet C3 belongs to the undated edition, H *6916.
Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled calf; corner-pieces lost; the title of each item in gilt on brown leather labels on the spine; thickly sprinkled red- and green-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark.
Size: 294 × 210 × 44 mm.
Size of leaf: 280 × 190 mm.
Marginal notes in several sixteenth-century north European hands, extracting personal names, and providing additions to and brief comments on the text (e.g. ‘ridiculum'). Notes about the author in a seventeenth-century French hand. ‘BL 11118' in pencil on book-plate; ‘183' in pencil on [*1r].
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.d.31': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; not identified in sale catalogues. Item 2 only(?): Gerardus Vollenher(?) (sixteenth century); inscription on title-page of item 2: ‘liber domini Gerardi Vollenher(?)'. Possibly purchased for £1. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1848), 36, where the item is described as ‘ad an. tantum 1461 | fol. s. l. et a.'; but the text in Prüss's 1490 edition continues until 1484. An alternative suggestion is the book purchased on 24 Apr. 1884 from James E. Cornish for £0. 16. 0; see Library Bills (1884), no. 98.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.6(1).
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