Shelfmark
Gi.4.03
Author
Title
[Fasciculus temporum].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Venice] : [Erhard Ratdolt], [24 Nov. 1480]
Physical description
[8], 68 leaves : ill. (woodcuts), diagrams ; 30 cm.
Note
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [b2] verso.
Note
Imprints from colophon on leaf [k4] recto, which reads in full: Explicit chronica que dicit[ur] Fasciculus tempor[um] : edita p[er] quenda[m] carthusie[n]sem. Nunc secu[n]do emendata cum quibusdam additionib[us] : vsq[ue] ad hec nostra tempora. Venetijs impressa : cura impensisq[ue] Erhardi ratdolt. de Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.LXXX.xxiiij. mens[is] nouembris. Xisto .iiij.° pontifice maximo. & Joanne mocenico : Duce .lxvj.° hui[us] alme vrbis Uenet[is].
Note
Printed foliation "1-68" on leaves [b1]-[k4].
Note
Signatures: [a⁸ b-i⁸ k⁴]. First leaf [a1] blank.
Note
Includes decorated initials, vignettes, and diagrams throughout.
Note
Woodcut vignettes, including Noah's Ark [b3] verso, the Tower of Babel [b4] verso, Salomon Temple [c1] verso, Salvator Mundi [e2] recto, Venice [f5] verso, and the Pantheon in Rome [g1] verso. Woodcut diagrams throughout, including world map on leaf [k3] recto, interiors of Noah's Ark and map of Jerusalem on leaf [k3] verso, and the Creation on leaf [k4] recto.
Note
Woodcut initials on leaves [b1] recto and [e1] verso.
Note
Table of contents printed in three columns on leaves [a2] recto - [a8] verso, prologue in single column on leaves [b1] recto - [b2] recto, the rest of the text printed in one, two or three columns, often with changes within the page.
Note
The text corresponds page for page with Georgius Walch's 1479 edition (ISTC ir00260000), but "Ratdolt supplies many woodcuts for which spaces are left by Walch, while the account of the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 is laudatory of Charles and is followed by eight pages of new matter": see BM 15th cent., V, 284.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Table of contents, [a2]r-[a8]v; [Werner Rolewinck]. [Prologue], [b1]r-[b2]r; [Werner Rolewinck]. Fasciculus temporum, [b2]v-[i8]r; [Continuation of the chronicle from 1475 to 1480], [i8]r-[k1]r; [Genealogical table of Solomon], [k1]v; [Note on the descendants of David], [k1]v; [Note on the descendants of Anna, and two verse on her family, including Walther, Initia 1067], [k2]r; [Genealogical table of Anna], [k2]r; [Discussion of the House of Israel, and list], [k2]v; [Etymological note on the Earth and the continents], [k3]r; [World map], [k3]r; [Two diagrams illustrating the interior of Noah's Ark and map of Jerusalem], [k3]v; [Note on the age of humankind and diagram of the Creation], caption "Editio s[ecundu]m hebraica[m] veritatem", [k4]r; colophon, [k4]r.
Citation/references note
ISTC, ir00261000
Citation/references note
BM 15th cent., V, 283-4
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Loose slip between rear pastedown and facing flyleaf "With the respectful compliments of Thos. Agnew & Sons. Ltd. [...] returned with many thanks" with ms. addition: "17 May 71".
Binding
20th-century red goatskin over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillet to form a border; gilt fillet on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, roll and titling ("Chronica fasciculus temporum."; "1480"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled blue. Endpapers of modern and early modern paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Loose typed note about a woodcut in this work, referring to the volume being lent to an exhibition in Venice; it has a ms. note: "May 1971".
Copy-specific note
Early modern ms. notes in two hands -- from MEI record (https://data.cerl.org/mei/02145843).
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.3.01.
Subject
Church history Early works to 1800.
Subject
Papacy Early works to 1800.
Subject
World history Early works to 1800.
Subject
Bible History of biblical events.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51164