Chronice hungaro[rum].

Accession number:

PML 238

Author:

Thuróczy, János, approximately 1435-

Published:

Brno : [Conrad Stahel and Mathias Preunlein], M.CCCC.lxxxviii. die .xx. Martii. [20 March 1488].

Description:

[168] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 x 20 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Ad egregiu[m] d[omi]n[u]m Thoma[m] de drag p[er]sonalis p[rae]sentie serenissimi principis d[omi]ni Mathie: hu[n]garie: bohemie [et]c regis Austrieq[ue] ducis cancellariu[m] Prefatio magistri Joha[n]nis de thworcz: in primu[m] libru[m] Chronie hungaro[rum] foeliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf x8r): Illustrissimo[rum] hungarie regu[m] chronica In inclita terre Moravie civitate Brune[n]si lucubratissime impressa finit felicius. Anno salutis .M.CCCC.lxxxviii. die .xx. Martii.
Printed in types 1:133G and 2:133G.
Collation: a-x⁸: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
41 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 19 cm.
PML copy with leaves a1 and x8 remounted (from another copy?).

Binding:

18th-century gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (31 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Chronica Hungarorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards with decorative foliate ornament, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (modern?). Annotations: Marginal notations on first few leaves only, faded, 16th/17th-century. Poem "Quanta sit invicti terrena potentia seeptri...Sunt nanque in cunctis tristi mixta iocis" (Walther, Initia, 15241), 18th/19th century (pasted-on leaf x8r).

Provenance:

Unidentified inscriptions, 16th-century monastic inscription "Monast. [???]," faded/not visible under UV and 18th/19th-century name heavily crossed out in ink (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf mark: "B2 C," 19th century (front fly leaf recto); Istvan Nagy (1799-1863), stamps: Nagy István Gyujtemenye (leaves a2r and x8r), his sale, List & Francke (Leipzig), 1870, no. 1710; collation note: "coll perf, June 28/[18]87. J.J" (rear fly leaf); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: sm/-/- (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books