tir00276000

Text-inc Id:

tir00276000

Bod-inc Id:

R-126

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 one of Prüss's earlier editions.
6. P4r [Continuation of the chronicle.] Incipit: ‘Karolus dux Burgundie primum memoriabile(!) bellum . . .'; explicit: ‘ . . . et non sine Thurcorum etiam aliquali strage multorum.’

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, not before 1490]. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁶] A⁸ B–P⁶. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00276000 HC 6916; Goff R‑276; Pr 563; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xxii, no. 119; BSB‑Ink R‑251; CIBN R‑180; Sack, Freiburg, 3102-3; Schramm XX p. 26 ('H 6935'); Schreiber V 5119; Sheppard 427-8. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II, CH 74. LCN: 14110297

Copies:

1. R-126(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves P_5–6. Binding: Seventeenth-century quarter calf over paper boards; the title in gilt on a red leather label on the spine; the title and date of the edition on a square paper label on the upper cover. Size: 283 × 205 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 195 mm. A few marginal notes in an early sixteenth-century north European hand, mainly extracting key words and providing underlining. ‘67' in pencil on front pastedown; ‘£1. 11. 6 | 1490' in pencil on recto of front endleaf. An initial ‘G' is supplied in red on A1r. Initials supplied in red in the table. Provenance: Anonymous sale (London: Sotheby's, 9 Feb. 1837), lot 299, see R‑116(2); the number ‘29' on a label at the tail of the spine; one of the items listed in Books Purchased (1837), 33, referred to as ‘fol. Arg. Jo. Gallensis, 1490', is probably this copy. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.25.
2. R-126(2) Second copy Bound with A‑052; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 254 × 170 mm. Frequent marginal notes in a sixteenth-century north European hand, mostly cropped, supplying pointing hands and summarizing the text. Continuations to the year 1500 in manuscript on the blank leaf P6. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.27(2).
3. R-126(3) Third copy Wanting the blank leaves P_5–6. Binding: Contemporary German (Regensberg, Kyriß workshop 44) blind-tooled quarter calf over oak boards; clasp intact. On the upper cover: three vertical sets of triple fillets form two compartments; that on the left is filled with a repeated ‘Maria Hilf' scroll (Kyriß pl. 91, no. 2) flanked by two stars; the right-hand compartment contains a repeated fleuron; at the head of this compartment the date ‘1490' is stamped in a small frame (Kyriß pl. 91, no. 3). On the lower cover: triple fillets form four rectangular compartments, each divided by diagonal triple fillets into four triangular compartments; a rosette stamp at each point of intersection (Kyriß pl. 91, no. 1); in the compartments a different fleuron stamp. The title in a sixteenth-century hand on a leather label at the head of the spine; the shelfmark ‘E | XXX III' on a leather label at the tail of the spine. Size: 292 × 206 × 36 mm. Size of leaf: 278 × 204 mm. Some marginal notes in a contemporary German hand, supplying pointing hands, ‘nota' signs, and repeating key points. Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Emmeramus; inscription ‘Monasterii S. Emmerami Ratisbonae' on [first sheet]; probably part of the collection of Erasmus Daum (Dawm), sub-prior (d.1504); see Wagner, 'St Emmeram', 201, no. M15. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-plate; sale (1835), lot 1757 or 1758; Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954); initials in gilt on a leather label on front pastedown. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from Goldschmidt in 1967 for £250; accession no. ‘R 2175'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. SHELFMARK: Broxb. 19.6.