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Lot 133
ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479.
Closed11 July 2018
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GBP 3,750
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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479.
First edition printed in Italy of Rolewinck’s popular universal chronicle, containing the first printed view of Venice. Among the subjects of the others woodcuts are: Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, Solomon’s Temple and the Christ Salvator Mundi. New to this edition is the section on Charlemagne’s death attached after the colophon. HC *6924; BSB R-238; BMC V 274; Bod-inc R-111; Schreiber 5110a; ISTC ir00260000; Goff R-256.
Chancery folio (304 x 205 mm). 71 leaves (lacking the first blank leaf), with pagination errors corrected in contemporary manuscript, on leaves 37-39 and 64. 14 woodcuts from 10 blocks, one woodcut initial. Not rubricated (single wormhole in first quire). Modern binding reusing a leaf from a Hebrew manuscript on vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, speckled edges. Provenance: Mantua, Carthusian house (early inscription altered to Turin).
First edition printed in Italy of Rolewinck’s popular universal chronicle, containing the first printed view of Venice. Among the subjects of the others woodcuts are: Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, Solomon’s Temple and the Christ Salvator Mundi. New to this edition is the section on Charlemagne’s death attached after the colophon. HC *6924; BSB R-238; BMC V 274; Bod-inc R-111; Schreiber 5110a; ISTC ir00260000; Goff R-256.
Chancery folio (304 x 205 mm). 71 leaves (lacking the first blank leaf), with pagination errors corrected in contemporary manuscript, on leaves 37-39 and 64. 14 woodcuts from 10 blocks, one woodcut initial. Not rubricated (single wormhole in first quire). Modern binding reusing a leaf from a Hebrew manuscript on vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, speckled edges. Provenance: Mantua, Carthusian house (early inscription altered to Turin).
ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479.
First edition printed in Italy of Rolewinck’s popular universal chronicle, containing the first printed view of Venice. Among the subjects of the others woodcuts are: Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, Solomon’s Temple and the Christ Salvator Mundi. New to this edition is the section on Charlemagne’s death attached after the colophon. HC *6924; BSB R-238; BMC V 274; Bod-inc R-111; Schreiber 5110a; ISTC ir00260000; Goff R-256.
Chancery folio (304 x 205 mm). 71 leaves (lacking the first blank leaf), with pagination errors corrected in contemporary manuscript, on leaves 37-39 and 64. 14 woodcuts from 10 blocks, one woodcut initial. Not rubricated (single wormhole in first quire). Modern binding reusing a leaf from a Hebrew manuscript on vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, speckled edges. Provenance: Mantua, Carthusian house (early inscription altered to Turin).
First edition printed in Italy of Rolewinck’s popular universal chronicle, containing the first printed view of Venice. Among the subjects of the others woodcuts are: Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, Solomon’s Temple and the Christ Salvator Mundi. New to this edition is the section on Charlemagne’s death attached after the colophon. HC *6924; BSB R-238; BMC V 274; Bod-inc R-111; Schreiber 5110a; ISTC ir00260000; Goff R-256.
Chancery folio (304 x 205 mm). 71 leaves (lacking the first blank leaf), with pagination errors corrected in contemporary manuscript, on leaves 37-39 and 64. 14 woodcuts from 10 blocks, one woodcut initial. Not rubricated (single wormhole in first quire). Modern binding reusing a leaf from a Hebrew manuscript on vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, speckled edges. Provenance: Mantua, Carthusian house (early inscription altered to Turin).
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