The world unfurls in “little bundles of time”
Fasciculus temporum.
Venice,
Erhardus Ratdolt,
28th May, 1484.
Small folio (298 by 194mm), 74 leaves, Gothic type, double-column, 55 woodcuts (including repeats), diagrams, white-vine intaglio woodcut initials; early twentieth century red morocco, elaborately decorated with an intricate design of multi-coloured onlays, gilt, preserved in a red morocco backed cloth slipcase and chemise.
Collation: * a-g(8), h(10)
Collation: * a-g(8), h(10)
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notes:
An attractive example, in a fine modern binding, of Werner Rolewinck's chronology 'Fasciculus temporum' - "Little bundles of time". First officially printed in 1474, the work presents both ecclesiastical and secular world history, from Genesis (in the year 5199BCE) to 1475, in the reign of Pope Sixtus IV, and with the story of Charles the Bold of Burgundy. Along the way, it includes note of events such as the invention of printing. His schema, was a series of linear charts,...
bibliography:
Campbell, 142; Redgrave; Stillwell, 409- 440; Woodward [Five Centuries], 510-521.
provenance:
Provenance:
With the bookplate of Roberto Salinas Price (1938-2012), Biblioteca Huicalco, Mexico, 1977, on the inside front cover. Salinas was a Mexican industrialist with an interest in Homeric legends, about which he published a number of works.
With the bookplate of Roberto Salinas Price (1938-2012), Biblioteca Huicalco, Mexico, 1977, on the inside front cover. Salinas was a Mexican industrialist with an interest in Homeric legends, about which he published a number of works.