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147
March 1983
Dawson's Book Shop
$30.00

Jacobus Philippun [Foresti] de Bergamo (Bergamensis) (1434-1504 1520)
Supplementum chronicerium.
Brescia: Boninue de Boninis T Dec. 1485 Book VIIII leaf 192 390 A.D.
Ref: HC 2806 Goff J 209 BMC VII 969.
See #209 #463 Cop HEHL, Harv Cl folio.
Plate #3 Stanford Haebler-
Type 5,6 #4 p110

382 leaves 1+20 blank, 24-381 numbered 1-258 on
rectors + verses 2 col. in tables 49 lines + headline
(year - dates, book numbers, foliation) 227(241)x122 (with
marginalia 152 mm) Types 150 G; 93G; 111R (capitals
only) heading on 24a Capital spaces. Double rule
or inner margins of text + between col. of tables.

The matter additional to that of the 1st ed. (Benalius, Venice -
1483) + taking the anrrative to 1485 begins on 376a.

Type 150 G heading type with ornate capitals
93 G plain text type on large body
111R clear text type modelled on Jenson's roman

The printer bookseller Boninus, in reality Dobrisa Dobric of
Rogusa (Dubrovnik) in Dalmatia, maden Yugoslavia, is a
very interesting figure in early printing. Having 1st produced a book
in Venice with another printer of Dalmatian orgin, Andrea de
Paltasichis (Paltasic, from Kotoro) in 1478-79 Boninus
later produced richly illustrated Latin + Italian ed. of
Valturius Verona in 1483, + in 1487 important illustrated
ed. of Dante (the 1st fully illustrated ed), and Aesop
at Brascia.
-This chrinicle covers the period from Creation to the yr. 1482
+ contains may interesting autobiographical passages.
-extremely popular "outline of history."