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208
Sept 85
Dr. Eichenberger
Bien wil am See
SF 65 = $24
? c 1430-?1490
1420
(Janos Thuroczy, c1435-after 1488)
(Thurocz)
Thwrocz, Johannes de
Chronica Hungariae. (hungarorum) folio
(Bino) Brunn: Conrad Stachel + Mathias Preunlein, 20 March 1488.
Ref: Goff T360 HC 15517 BMC III 815 Murray, Early German Books, 410.
Cop: PML, NYPL(S), LC(R) Schr 4394 f3
UN Cal L Munchen, HSBU.
168 leaves, a-x8, 3a:36 lines, 240x142mm. (281x195) (273x192mm)
Types: 133a headings - Gothic heading type, the capitals as
in Radolt, Venice + Augsburg, 130.
133b text - smaller Gothic type on this same body
as the preceding. B, D, G, H, N, Q, V with slanting double bars,
teh last to final stroke curling inwards. C + O broken at top
Tail of h level with line.
Capital spaces. Woodcuts, some repeated.

Earliest book known to have been printed at Brunn, 7 Oct 1489.
Both printers came to Brunn from Venice, where Conrad
Stahcl was in partnership with Andres Coruus +
Martinus of Zeiden in 1484. The last dated book at
Brunn - 1499. Preulein printed 2 book at Olmutz
in 1499. (Olomouc)

L/ WItten Cat. 16 #109 41 three - quarter page woodcuts, including 5/4 repeats. (11 1/4x8" 286x201mm)
Brunn (Bnuo in Moravia) - the most important city.
The most important book from the earliest printing press est. (1486)
in modern Czechslovakia, + contains the primary sources for the
history of Hungary in the Middle Ages. "In the year 1488,
when Matthias Capurnius, King of Hungary + Bohemia,
Duke of Austria, was installed in Vienna" (after the successful
siege of the city.), "there appeared in Brunn the richly
illustrated Hungarian Chronicle of J. von Thurocz. Composed of
already forgotten old manuscript sources + new matter." (the
last 100 years of the account by Thuroczy himself). "the
last work recounts the history of the Huns + Magyars, ending