ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479.
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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479.

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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).