Lot 2
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, Strasbourg, Johann Pruess, 1490.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, 96ff., (of 98, lacking final 2 blank leaves), collation: [pi]6 A8 B-O6 P4, 50 lines plus headline, Gothic type, full-page woodcut on verso of title depicting the author presenting his book to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, woodcut illustrations in text, initial on first leaf of text supplied in red ink, woodcut of Tower of Babel on f.5v hand-coloured, slight worming to first few leaves with loss of a few letters on second leaf, some foxing, soiling and marginal staining, ink annotations at head of title, modern limp vellum, 4to (268 x 193mm.), [Strasbourg, Johann Pruess], [1490].
⁂ Rolewinck's monumental chronicle of the world, which greatly influenced Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle.
Description
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, 96ff., (of 98, lacking final 2 blank leaves), collation: [pi]6 A8 B-O6 P4, 50 lines plus headline, Gothic type, full-page woodcut on verso of title depicting the author presenting his book to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, woodcut illustrations in text, initial on first leaf of text supplied in red ink, woodcut of Tower of Babel on f.5v hand-coloured, slight worming to first few leaves with loss of a few letters on second leaf, some foxing, soiling and marginal staining, ink annotations at head of title, modern limp vellum, 4to (268 x 193mm.), [Strasbourg, Johann Pruess], [1490].
⁂ Rolewinck's monumental chronicle of the world, which greatly influenced Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle.