Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502

Title:

Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens.

Alternate Title(s):

Fasciculus temporum

Published / Created:

[Strasbourg, France] : [Johann Prüss], [between 6 April 1490 and 1494]

Physical Description:

[6], XC, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0582
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Imprint and date from ISTC.

The last historical event mentioned is the death of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in 1490 (6 April); Cf. folium XC verso: Mathias Hungarorum rex ... rebus humanis feliciter exemptus est. anno Mcccclxc [sic]; ISTC notes that the Osnabrück copy has a manuscript date 1494.

Collation: folio: [pi]⁶ A⁸ B-P⁶ [$4 (-K4, M4) signed; [pi]2, 3 direction-numbered 'ij', '3'; missigning G4 as L4, O4 as O3]; 98 leaves, folios [6 unnumbered], XC, [XCI-XCII (blank)] [misprinting XLVIII as 'XLXIII', LII as LI]. The leaf numeration in signatures is roman, except G3, I2,3,4, K3, L2,3, M3 arabic. Compare with similar Goff R-276, in which it is arabic, with only three exceptions.

Gothic type. Capital spaces, some with guide-letters. Printed in a single column. Headlines give foliation, and, on the verso of each leaf, the period covered.

Tabula (index, [pi]2-[pi]6) printed in 3 columns.

Full-page woodcut on title page verso depicts a blind beggar.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00275000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M38727

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-275

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6915*

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 127 (IB. 1741)

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5120

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0582: Imperfect: title leaf only, with full-page hand-colored woodcut on verso. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Contents:

Title page, (2 3).1r; woodcut, (2 3).1v; Table of contents, (2,3).2r-(2,3).6v; [Werner Rolewinck]. [Prologue], A1r-A2r; [Werner Rolewinck]. Fasciculus temporum, A2v-P4r; [Continuation of the chronicle from 1475 to 1490], P4r-v.

Subject Terms:

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions) | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Prüss, Johann, 1446 or 1447–1510, printer.