Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum, Venice, Ratdolt, 1484, half calf over wooden boards

Werner Rolewinck

Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484

Chancery folio (284 x 190mm.), 74 leaves, [* a-g⁸ h¹⁰], double column, gothic type, white-on-black woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations, contemporary wooden boards with later calf spine tooled in period style, nails on upper cover (remaining from an earlier lettering-piece), two clasps, numerous early annotations at front and back of volume (those at the back dated 1540), some staining, boards slightly wormed

A reprint of Ratdolt's 1481 edition. The annotations on the first recto are additional entries to Rolewinck's chronicle, dating from 1493 to 1504.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ir00270000

PROVENANCE:

"Iste liber nuncuppatus fassiculus temporum est mei Iacobi de Cata[?] notarii... 1491", inscription on flyleaf; "Iste liber est mei Aurelii Martiani", "Liber Aurelii Marciani", early inscriptions; Horatii Martiani, inscription on second leaf; "Ne alienes ab hoc loco F. Capuc. Mantue" (Capuchins of Mantua), inscription on second leaf