Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. Supplementum chronicarum, 270 ff., 60 lines and headline, Gothic type, a1v woodcuts representing the six days of creation within an ornate historiated architectural border, a2 r text and large decorative initial within repeated border from a1, 46 woodcuts from 39 blocks within text, initial spaces with guide-letters, first few initials in red or blue or both, foot of verso of F8 woodcut printer's device, occasional early ink marginalia and text markings, occasional staining (mostly marginal) or spotting, 17th century blind-stamped and gilt calf, covers with centre- and -corner pieces, richly gilt spine in compartments and with orange morocco label, small piece missing from lower compartment, rubbed, [BMC V, 404; Goff J-212; HC 2809; Sander 919], folio, Venice, Bernardinus Rizus, 15 February, 1492/3.

⁂ Third illustrated edition, with additional entries bringing the Augustinian monk's chronicle up to 1490. Many of the woodcuts are taken from the first illustrated edition of 1486, but with the city views improved by Rizus (notably Rome, Venice, Genoa and Verona) and with the addition of the Tower of Babel. He also added the woodcut borders which had appeared earlier that same year in the Italian Legenda Aurea printed by Bonellis, the woodcuts of the Creation and a small woodcut of Noah's ark, both from the Malermi Bible of 1490.

Provenance: 'Reynouard me habet 1598' (ink inscription to front and rear pastedown); 'Problemata fra. Georgii Veneti' (ink inscription to front pastedown); Nicolas Joseph Foucault (large engraved armorial bookplate).