tic00475000

Text-inc Id:

tic00475000

Bod-inc Id:

C-193

Headings:

Chronicles: Brabant Cronike van Brabant [Dutch].

Analysis of content:

1. a2r ‘Die tafele vanden eersten deele'.
2. a2v ‘Prologus oft voorsprake'. Incipit: ‘[W]ant hystorie (als Cicero seyt) es een ghetughe der tijden . . .’
3. a3v Cronike van Brabant [Dutch. Also known as Die alder excellenste cronyke van Brabant.] Incipit: ‘Hier beghint den yersten boeck . . . [I]nt boeck vanden proprieteyten der dinghen . . .’ Traditionally this has regarded as a translation of the Catalogus et cronica principum et comitum Flandriae; see August Potthast, Bibliotheca historica medii aevi (Berlin, 1896), I 207, 306; however, it is actually a Brabantine chronicle (ex informatione Jaap Tigelaar).
4. dd4r [Colophon.

Imprint:

Antwerp: Roland van den Dorpe, 28 Feb. ‘1497' [1498]. Folio. The date is traditionally taken to be 1497, as stated in the colophon; however, in Brabant the year began at Easter until 1576 (ex informatione Jaap Tigelaar).

Collation:

a–g⁶ h⁴ A⁶ B⁴ [C^2+2+2+2+2+2] D–R RR rrr S–Y aa–cc⁶ dd⁴. 96 woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00475000 GW 6667; HC 5004; Goff C‑475; Pr 9459; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. lxxiv, no. 456; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 230; Campbell 508; HPT II 393; ILC 558; Oates 4001; Sheppard 7257. LCN: 13912653

Copies:

1. C-193(1) Copy Wanting the title-leaf a1 and a2, h4, B4 and dd3. Leaf a5 bound before D1. Gathering C (containing the genealogical tables) comes from a copy of the second edition (Antwerp: Jan van Doesborch, 1512); ex informatione Jaap Tigelaar. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 250 × 190 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 241 × 175 mm. Initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Purchased for £1. 4. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 243, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian', item 5, and Books Purchased (1831), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.13.