[Chronica sive opus historiale] (v.1)

Description

Signatures: Volume 1 [a-b⁶ c-f⁸ g-z⁶ A-P⁶ (a1, b6, N6 and P6 blank)]; volume 2: [a-b⁶ c⁸ d-z⁶ A-V⁶ (a1, b6, c1 and V6 blank)]; volume 3: [a-b⁶ c⁸ d-z⁶ A-V⁶ X¹⁰ Y⁶ (a1, b6, c1, Y5 and Y6 blank)].

Imprint from colophon to volume 3.

Colophon to volume 3 reads: Perfectum atque finitum est opus excellentissimum trium partium historialium seu Cronice domini Antonini archiepiscopi florentini cum suis registris. In Nuremberga nominatissima civitate germanie. Anno incarnate dei tatis. M.cccclxxxiiij. die ultima Julii per Antonium koberger civem Nurenbergensem. Ad laudem summi opi ficis gloriosissimeque semper virginis Marie gerule hiesu christi. Deo gratias.

Printed in two columns with 67 lines to a full column.

Printed headlines and foliation.

Initial spaces, no guide-letters.

Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00778000.

Indexed in: Goff A778; HC 1159*; Pell 813; BMC II 426.

Features

On the verso of the final blank leaf of volume 1 ([P6v]) is an inscription in black ink manuscript.

At the end of volume 1 on a blank leaf before the register is a sermon written in Latin in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.

At the head of the recto of the first blank leaf of volumne 2 ([a1r]) is a note in very small black ink manuscript.

At the base of the final printed leaf of volume 3 is an inscription in black ink manuscript.

Some water damage to all three volumes.

Bindings

The three volumes are bound in half black goatskin over bevelled wooden boards by Poincignon, whose name is gold-tooled on the turn-in beneath the front pastedown. The goatskin on the upper and lower covers is blind-tooled with a pattern of vertical, horizonal and diagonal fillets and fleurons. The spines have five raised bands with the author and title gold-tooled in the second panel: volume 1: Anthoninus - Prima pars historialis; volume 2: Anthoninus - Secunda pars historialis; volume 3: Anthoninus - Tertia pars historialis. Gold-tooled at the base of each spine is the date: 1484. The pastedowns are of blue paper and the books have leather hinges. Each book is fastened with two decorative metal clasps catching on the upper boards (five of the six straps and clasps are detached and preserved separately). The clasps are decorated with the same coat of arms painted inside each volume, with a chevron and three ermine tails. Volume 1 - Size: 428 x 303mm. Leaf size: 402 x 290 mm. Volume 2 - Size: 429 x 312mm. Leaf size: 404 x 290mm. Volume 3 - Size: 429 x 308mm. Leaf size: 404 x 288mm.

Provenance

Each volume contains a painted coat of arms with a yellow chevron against a blue background with three ermine tails in silver. In volume one it appears at the base of the first leaf of the Prologus. In volumes 2 and 3 it appears at the head of the leaf numbererd Fol. I. A different painter is responsible for the coats of arms in the second and third volumes, and they are of a higher standard.

Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown of each volume. The books were most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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