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Fasciculus temporum.

Accession number
PML 326
Creator
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.
Object title

Fasciculus temporum.

Published

[Venice] : Erhard Ratdolt, 21 December 1481.

Description

[8], 1-64 leaves ; 27 x 18.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas co[m]plectens incipit foeliciter.
Colophon (leaf [9]/8v): Fasciculus temporu[m] o[mn]es quasi antiquas choronicas mortaliu[m] usq[ue] ad hec tempora co[m]plectens felicit[er] explicit. Impressusq[ue] impensa [et] arte mira Erhardi rodolt de augusta. 1481 .12. calen[das] Jan[uarii].
Printed in type 6:76G.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-9⁸]: 72 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcuts.
Some copies have the first line of text (only) corrected to read 'temporum' and 'cōplectens for 'tempnrum' and 'amplectens' (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 17 cm., trimmed.
Binding
19th-century mottled calf over paper boards (27 x 18.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Manuscript title and author statement, 18th century(?) (leaf [1]/1v). No notations in text.
Provenance
Two unidentified ownership inscriptions, one abraded, 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/2r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department