BEIN Zi 4379: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Imperfect: fol. 1 [blank] and numb. ff. 56-58 wanting. With the stamp of the London Library.

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0283: Imperfect: leaves 26 and 37 only, the latter with a woodcut view of Venice and the Ducal Palace. The woodcuts are uncolored. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Title from incipit of text, leaf 2v.

Imprint from ISTC. Colophon: Explicit chronica qui dicit[ur] Fasciculus tempo[rum]: edita [per] quenda[m] carthusie[n]sem. Nunc secu[n]do emendata cum quibusdam additionib[us]: vs[que] ad hec nostra tempora. Venetijs impressa: cura impensis[que] Erhardi ratdolt. de Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni. M. CCCC. LXXX. xxiiij. men[sis] nouembris. Xisto. iiij.̊ pontifice maximo. & Ioanne mocenico: Duce. lxvj ̊hui[us] alme vrbis Venet[iarum]. Laus Deo.

Collation: folio: [unsigned, 1-9⁸ 10⁴]; 76 leaves, folios [8 unnumbered] 1-68.

Gothic type (BMC 76G; Redgrave 4)--here in its earliest form (before recasting), in use only in 1480; 3 columns in table; 1 column in introduction; 1-4 columns in text, interspersed with rules, diagrams, and small woodcuts (many repeats).

Foliated woodcut initials à fond noire; the large "G" on 1r employed only in Ratdolt's editions of Fasciculus temporum.

This is one of the earliest books Ratdolt printed alone and the first of his five editions of Rolevink.

"The body of the text in this edition corresponds page for page with that in Walch's edition of the preceding year ..., but Ratdolt supplies many woodcuts for which spaces are left by Walch, while the account of the death of Charles the Bold [1477] is laudatory of Charles and is followed by eight pages of new matter."--BMC, V, 283-4.

"Both the G and the cut of Venice are larger and better than those of Walch, there are altogether nineteen woodcuts, some of them sued five or six times, and there is much new matter towards the end of the book, including a new half quire, of which the first page is devoted to events from 1477 to 1480, ending with the siege of Rhodes, and the next six to miscellaneous information, including diagrams to illustrate the genealogy of Christ and of John the Baptist, a plan of the world showing Jerusalem as its centre, and the inhabitants of different classes (kings and priests, nobles and prophets, the commonality and 'artistae') carefully mapped out, two plans of the inside of the Ark, and a table of the Creation."--Pollard, Hawkins.

Fasciculus temporum: omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens

Incipit of the table, preliminary leaf [2]r: Tabula breuis & vtilis super libello quoda[m] qui dicit[ur] fasciculus temporum ...

Beginning of the prologue, leaf 1r: Generatio & generatio laudabit o[per]a tua: & potentia[m] tua[m] [pro]nunciabunt.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00261000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M38729

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-261

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 6926*

Redgrave, G.R. Erhard Ratdolt and his work at Venice, 17

Essling, V. Les livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe, 277

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'en 1530, 6526

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5111a

Geldner, F. Die deutschen Inkunabeldrucker, II, 79 (facsim.)

Ongania, F. Art de l'imprimerie a Venise, 72 (facsims.)

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 283 (IB.20505)

World history > Early works to 1800.

Church history > Early works to 1800.

Papacy > History > Early works to 1800.

Incunabula.

Woodcuts.

Fragments (object portions)