Fasciculus te[m]po[rum] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s
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Type of record: Book
Title: Fasciculus te[m]po[rum] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s
Other titles: Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens; Fasciculus temporum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/ROL
Creator(s): Rolevinck, Werner (1425-1502)
Additional creator(s): Prüss, Johann (1510) (Printer); Widmann, Paul (Former owner); Seidel, Wolfgang (1492-1562) (Former owner); Hodgkin, John Eliot (1829-1912) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner); Tegernsee (Abbey) (Former owner)
Related people: Prüss, Johann; Widmann, Paul; Seidel, Wolfgang; Hodgkin, John Eliot; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Johann Prüss
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [between 6 April 1490 and 1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [6], XC, [2] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96910
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008143509705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [* ]⁶ A⁸ B-P⁶.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed with 50 long lines to a full page.
The table is printed in three columns.
Printed foliation at the head of rectos.
Leaves 7-96 are numbered I-XC.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Full-page woodcut frontispiece of the author presenting his book to the Emperor who is seated on a throne.
On numbered leaf XXXVIII is a woodcut figure of Christ. Other smaller woodcuts in the text include representations of the Ark and the Tower of Babel, the cities of Nineveh, Treves, Athens, Rome, Byzantium, Lyon, Cologne and Bern, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of Troy, the destruction of Babylon, a merman, and a man with the head of a dog.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ir00275000.
Indexed in: BM STC I, 127 (IB.1741); Goff R275.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century monastic binding of full dark brown calf over wooden boards. The upper cover is blind tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets. Blind-tooled inside the frame is a repeating pattern of stylised foliage, flowers and birds, and the central panel is decorated with three lines of interlace and small dots. The lower cover is decorated in similar fashion but for the frame, which contains a blind-tooled repeating pattern of a hunting scene depicting a stag, two dogs and a hunter with a spear in a forest. The spine has three raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Rolewinck Fasciculus temporum. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Strassburg c. 1488. In the third panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. Written in black ink manuscript on the head-edge are words and a number: Fasciculus t[em]p[oru]m 21. Written in black ink manuscript on the fore-edge are the letters: FA. Attached to the head of the upper cover
is a paper lettering piece on which is written, in black ink manuscript: Fasciculus Tempo[rum] o[mn]es Antiquorum Chronicas complectens. The four capital letters are rubricated. Size: 288 x204mm. Leaf size: 278 x 195mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on a piece of paper pasted to the front pastedown: Admodum R[everen]do in Christo Patri ac b[eato] d[omi]no Paulo celeberrimi Monasterij Tegerseenensis Abbati dignissimo u[ero] d[omi]no et amico suo colendissimo. The book was in the possession of the Benedictine Abbey of Tegernsee at the time of Abbot Paulus [Widmann], that is 1594-1624.
Inscription in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, on the title page, partly indistinct: Wolfgangus Sedelius me comp[ar]auit [...] 1556 Monachii [i.e. Munich]. Wolfgang Sedelius (1491-1562) was a Benedictine monk at Tegernsee who preached in Munich and Salzburg.
On the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912) which features a scribe at a writing desk and a printer using a press.
On the back pastedown is a red and black printed plate titled "Adnotatio" with the monogram of John Eliot Hodgkin at the bottom. On the plate are notes by him in black ink manuscript giving details of this and similar editions. At the base of the plate he remarks: A capital example of cotempory [sic] binding.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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