tir00271000

Text-inc Id:

tir00271000

Bod-inc Id:

R-121

Headings:

Rolewinck, Werner Fasciculus temporum.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1v] Ratdolt, Erhardus: Letter [addressed] to Nicolas Mocenicus. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitaui saepius, Nicolae magnifice et in litterarum studiis eminentissime . . .’
2. [*2r] [Table.]
3. [a1r] [Rolewinck, Werner: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘  “[G]eneratio et generatio . . . pronunciabunt” [Ps 144,4] scribitur Psalmo 144. Cum non sine multa diligentia . . .’
4. [a2v] [Rolewinck, Werner]: Fasciculus temporum. Incipit: ‘  “[I]n principio creauit Deus celum et terram” [Gn 1,1]. Dicit beatus Augustinus . . .’ See R‑104; in his preface Ratdolt declares that this is his fifth edition.
5. [h8r] [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Anno domini 1475 Karolus dux Burgundiae dux in actibus militaribus . . .'; explicit: ‘ . . . acriter impedimento fuisset'. Includes the deaths of Charles the Bold and Sultan Mohammed, and the wars of Matthias Corvinus against the Turks and Emperor Frederick.
6. [h9v] [Genealogical table of the family of Solomon.] Incipit: ‘Ex cathena Solomonis: Matthan habuit uxorem . . .’ After the text, a family tree headed by Eli.
7. [h9v] [Note on the descendants of David.] Incipit: ‘In euangelio beati Matthei in principio dicitur: “Liber generationis . . . filii Abraham” [Mt 1,1]. Et beatus Ambrosius . . .’
8. [h10r] [Note on the descendants of Anna.] Incipit: ‘Elizabeth filiam Aminadab sororem . . .’
9. [h10r] [Verse on the family of Anna.] Incipit: ‘Ex Ioachim Cleopa Salome: tres Anna Marias | Quas peperit iunxit Ioseph Alpheo çebedeo'; 4 hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 5992.
10. [h10r] [Verse on the family of Anna.] Incipit: ‘Anna uiro Ioachim peperit te uirgo Maria | De qua processit sine femina vera Sophia'; 7 hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 1067.

Imprint:

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 8 Sept. 1485. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁸ b–g⁸ h¹⁰]. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00271000 H 6935; Goff R‑271; BMC V 290; Pr 4404; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxi, no. 134; BSB‑Ink R‑247; CIBN R‑177; Essling 280; Redgrave 52; Rhodes 1525; Sander 6530; Schreiber V 5116C; Sheppard 3688. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I, CH 69. LCN: 14110317

Copies:

1. R-121(1) Copy Wanting the first leaf [*1], containing the preface. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 306 × 212 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 300 × 198 mm. Occasional marginal notes in early sixteenth-century Italian hands, providing additions to the table and the text, pointing hands, variant readings, and extracting key words. A stamp containing a shield on a2r has been effaced. Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823). Purchased at his sale (1824), lot 1230, for £3. 6. 0; see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 174^v; Books Purchased (1824), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.1.