[192] pages : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0306Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from title page, leaf 1r.Imprint and date as given by ISTC (adding country). Colophon, leaf 96r, reads: "Chronica qui dicit[ur] fasciculus t[emporu]m edita in alma vniuersitate colonie agrippine su[per] renu[m], a quoda[m] deuoto cartusiensi finit feliciter. Sepi[us] quide[m] ia[m] impressa, sed neglige[n]tis correcto[rum] in diuersis locis a vero originali min[us] iuste eme[n]data. Nunc vero non sine magno labore ad p[ri]stinu[m] statu[m] reducta, cu[m] quibusda[m] additionib[us], per humile[m] vi[rum] fr[ratr]em heinricu[m] Wirczburg de vach monachu[m], in prioratu rubeimo[n]tis, ordinis cluniacen[sis], sub lodouico gruerie comite magnifico Anno d[omi]ni .Mcccclxxxi. Et anno p[re]cedenti fueru[n]t aqua[rum] inu[n]datio[n]es maxi[m]e, ventus[que] horribiles, multa edifitia subuerte[n]tes."Place of printing sometimes erroneously recorded as Rougemont, France."The last line (all but one word) on 81a, noting the foundation of the Monastery of Rougemont in the words: 'Monasteriu[m] Rubeimo[n]tis fundat[ur] ab incolis loci illi[us]. & [per] Willeriu[m] comite[m] gruerie dotat[ur]', is absent in some copies."--BMC"Reprinted from the edition of Walch, Venice, 1479 ... with which it agrees in the wording of the first part of the colophon, and not containing the additional matter appended to Ratdolt's 1480 edition ... The cuts, however, are not at all closely copied and a number or references to Swiss affairs are introduced into the text, while a metrical explanation of the Roman numerals, which had already appeared in Wirtzburg and Steinschaber's (Geneva) Calendarium, 1479, is appended to the prologue."--BMCCollation: folio: [unsigned, 1⁶ 2-5⁸ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8⁶ 9-12⁸ 13⁶]; 96 leaves, unnumbered."With several woodcuts of subjects not illustrated in the earlier editions, including a larger treatment of the figure of Christ, who is here shown with his disciples, and with figures of the four Evangelists at the corners of the block [leaf 42r]. There are also small woodcuts of the founders of some of the religious orders; also cuts of a merman, a dog-faced man, and a comet."--Pollard, HawkinsChancery folio. 1-3 columns/43-44 lines. Types 1:97G and 2:180G.Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00266000Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M38708Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-266Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 6930Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, 383 (IB. 38503)Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, tome 5, 5113BAC Leaf Collection no. 0306: Imperfect: leaf [79] only, the recto with a small woodcut illustration of a Carthusian monk, the verso a Cistercian monk. Uncolored. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
World history -- Early works to 1800. | Church history -- Early works to 1800. | Papacy -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.