[Incunabulum]. ROLEWINCK (Werner). *Fasciculus temporum omne - Lot 45

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[Incunabulum]. ROLEWINCK (Werner). *Fasciculus temporum omne - Lot 45
[Incunabulum]. ROLEWINCK (Werner). *Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s incipit feliciter*... Basel, Bernhard Richel, February 20, 1482. Folio, [6] f. (table of contents), XC folios, illustrations, 18th-century tan sheepskin, 5-rib spine, red calfskin title label, ornate panels, red edges (binding worn, defects including a lacuna at the bottom of the spine, one corner exposed, stretched fastener on the upper cover ; soiling, minor water stains of no consequence, tears with no loss on folios II, VII, VIII, LXXXIX, and a few other small ones in the margins, small patch in the margin of folios XXXIX and XC, hole affecting two letters on folio XLVIII). An illustrated incunabulum edition of this historical chronicle, which extends up to the death of Charles the Bold (1477), a work by Werner Rolewinck (1425–1502), a Carthusian monk from Cologne, theologian, and historiographer. The woodcut illustrations consist of vignettes—some of which are repeated—depicting, among other things, a city in flames (used to represent both Troy and Babylon), Noah’s Ark, Solomon’s Temple, the Tower of Babel, and a man with a dog’s head... This copy features all vignettes and decorative elements that were originally hand-colored. On the first page of the text, there is a beautiful initial “G” painted in red and black and bearing a coat of arms, which may belong to the volume’s first owner. Other owners: two old entries in Germanic script contain the name Rolsincki (?); another identifies the owner who had the binding commissioned: “by my late grandmother, bookbinder, 2 livres 10 sols in Wissembourg on February 12, 1740,” with the initials “Ghm.” The title page is most often bound at the end, rarely at the beginning as is the case with this copy. Four handwritten lines in German in the margin of f. LXXXVII v°. (ISTC ir00267000; GW M38680; USTC 748581)
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