tir00274000

Text-inc Id:

tir00274000

Bod-inc Id:

R-124

Headings:

Rolewinck, Werner Fasciculus temporum.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1r] [Title-page.]
2. [*1v] ‘Tabula'.
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 . . .’ Explicit: ‘ . . .et non sine thurcorum etiam aliquali strage multorum'. See R‑104; based on Prüss's 1487 edition (R‑123); see BMC.
5. P4r [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Karolus dux Burgundie primum memoriabile(!) 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:

Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, 1488. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁶] A⁸ B–P⁶. Collation as Sheppard. 98 leaves, the last two blank. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00274000 HC Addenda 6937; Goff R‑274; BMC I 121; Pr 533; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxii, no. 118b; BSB‑Ink R‑249; Sack, Freiburg, 3100; Schramm XX p. 25; Schreiber V 5118; Sheppard 415. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I, CH 72. LCN: 14110372

Copies:

1. R-124(1) Copy Binding: Sixteenth-century parchment; stubs of leather ties on each cover; manuscript title on a paper label on the upper cover; red-edged leaves. Size: 266 × 194 × 22 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 185 mm. Marginal notes in an early sixteenth-century north European hand, supplying ‘nota' marks and underlining, and extracting key words and personal names. The woodcuts are painted in various colours. On A1r a four-line initial ‘G' is supplied in red with reserved white decoration. Elsewhere one- to three-line initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red. Provenance: Bartolomeus Delbecq (sixteenth/seventeenth-century?); ‘Bartholomeus Delbecq ƺ' on the front pastedown. Anonymous sale (London: Sotheby's, 9 Feb. 1837), lot 299, see R‑116(2); see ‘299 | 7' on a paper label at the base of the spine; one of the items listed in Books Purchased (1837), 33, referred to as ‘fol. Arg. Jo. Pryss, 1488', is probably this copy. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.24.