Widukind of Corvey

WIDUKIND OF COVEY. Rerum ab Henrico et Ottone I Impp. gestarum libri III. Basel: Johannes Herwagen, March 1532, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials
TUPRIN of Reims. Historia Caroli Magni, et Rolandi [a fragment of the first 13ff. of] Germanicarum rerum quatuor celebriores vetustioresque chronographi [Paris: Jacques du Puy, 1566]

SAXO GRAMMATICUS. Danorum historiae libri XVI [edited by Erasmus]. Basel: Johann Bebel, 1534, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials, start of text within woodcut border



3 works in one volume, folio (310 x 189mm.), early nineteenth-century olive morocco gilt by Charles Lewis, with his label, Tennant armorial on covers, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, binding slightly scraped

[?William] Tennant, arms on binding; William O'Brien, bequest booklabel dated 1899

VD16 ZV 7827, S2049

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FIRST EDITION. Widukind was a monk at Corvey during the later tenth century, and he is an important source for the history of the Saxons and the Ottonians from the fifth century to his own times. Included in this work are other histories such as Enea Silvio Piccolomini's Historia bohemica, Hermann graf von Neuenahr's work on the origins of the Franks, and Liutprand's account of tenth-century events in both Italy and Constantinople.

The History of the Danes by Saxo, written c. 1200, was first printed in Paris in 1512 and includes the tale of "Amlethus".