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tir00275000

Text-inc Id:
tir00275000
Bod-inc Id:
R-125
Headings:
Rolewinck, Werner Fasciculus temporum.
Analysis of content:
  1. [*1r] [Title-page.]
  2. [*1v] [Woodcut.]
  3. [*2r] ‘Tabula'.
  4. A1r [Rolewinck, Werner: Prologus.] Incipit: ‘  “[G]eneratio et generatio . . . pronunciabunt” [Ps 144,4] scribitur Psalmo 144. Cum non sine multa diligentia . . .’
  5. A2v [Rolewinck, Werner]: Fasciculus temporum. Incipit: ‘  “[I]n principio creauit Deus celum et terram” [Gn 1,1]. Dicit beatus Augustinus . . .’ See R‑104; based on Prüss's 1488 edition (R‑124).
  6. P4r [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Karolus dux Burgundie primum memoriale(!) 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, not before 1490]. Folio.
Collation:
[*6] A8 B–P6. Woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00275000 HC 6915; Goff R‑275; BMC I 127; Pr 571; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxii, no. 122; BSB‑Ink R‑250; CIBN R‑179; Oates 215; Rhodes 1526; Sack, Freiburg, 3101; Schramm XX p. 27; Schreiber V 5120; Sheppard 435-7. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I, CH 73. LCN: 14110306, 14110381, 14111764
Copies:
  1. R-125(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves P5–6. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; the spine gold-tooled; sprinkled red- and black-edged leaves. Size: 268 × 203 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 189 mm. Marginal notes in contemporary German hands in red and black ink, providing additions to the table, ‘nota' marks, brackets, pointing hands, underlining, a few comments (e.g. ‘vix credo') and additions to the text, including (on P4v) a note on the truce of 1521 in the last Teutonic War (1519-21): ‘Item Anno domini 1521 facta est pacis tranquillitas in partibus Prusie inter cruciferos [i.e. Teutonic Knights] et regem Polonie, qui ambo deuastarunt terram Prutenicam ubique et hospitalia Sancti Gerdrudis ad corpus domini facit(?) ad angelos . . . contra ciuitatem Gedanensem prachdolor(?) ad 4 annos . . . esse mutuo in pace'. In the table initials and underlining are supplied in red ink. A four-line initial ‘G' is supplied in red on A1r. Provenance: Anonymous sale (London: Sotheby's, 9 Feb. 1837), lot 299, see R‑116(2); one of the items listed in Books Purchased (1837), 33, referred to as ‘ed. alt. ibid. [i.e. Arg. Jo. Gallensis] 1490', is probably this copy; see the remains of an octagonal Sotheby's label at the base of the spine. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.29.
  2. R-125(2) Second copy Bound with G‑147(2); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 270 × 180 mm. Wanting the blank leaf P6. Bibliographical notes in a seventeenth-century German hand on [*1r]. SHELFMARK: Douce 183(2).
  3. R-125(3) Third copy Bound with:
    2. Hegesippus, De bello iudaico. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, for Gottfried Hittorp, 1525);
    3. Orosius, Historiae. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, for Gottfried Hittorp, 1526). Wanting the blank leaf P6. Sheet C3 belongs to the undated edition, H *6916. Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled calf; corner-pieces lost; the title of each item in gilt on brown leather labels on the spine; thickly sprinkled red- and green-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark. Size: 294 × 210 × 44 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 190 mm. Marginal notes in several sixteenth-century north European hands, extracting personal names, and providing additions to and brief comments on the text (e.g. ‘ridiculum'). Notes about the author in a seventeenth-century French hand. ‘BL 11118' in pencil on book-plate; ‘183' in pencil on [*1r]. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.d.31': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; not identified in sale catalogues. Item 2 only(?): Gerardus Vollenher(?) (sixteenth century); inscription on title-page of item 2: ‘liber domini Gerardi Vollenher(?)'. Possibly purchased for £1. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1848), 36, where the item is described as ‘ad an. tantum 1461 | fol. s. l. et a.'; but the text in Prüss's 1490 edition continues until 1484. An alternative suggestion is the book purchased on 24 Apr. 1884 from James E. Cornish for £0. 16. 0; see Library Bills (1884), no. 98. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.6(1).
  4. R-125(4) Fourth copy Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments. Fragment: leaf [*1] only. Size of fragment: 288 × 202 mm. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. G97.(1).
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