farfel_n06_042_422

422
Dr. Eichenberger
Bein wil Am See
July '94
SF 68 = $46

Rolewinck, Wernes. (1425-1502)
Fasiculus temporum (Bundle of the Ages)
Lyons: Mathias Huss, not before 1495. 4^0
Ref: Goff R-277 C. 2437 Oates 3195 Pr 8570
BMC VIII 265
Cop: HEHL, LC, UN CaL, PhFL Eiiij (of 8)
Sexta etas Christus. Folium XXXVI.
1994 copy at $4,000 98 leaves, the last blank, 7-97 numbered Folium I-XC
LXXXVII, with errors in the last quire. Table in 3 columns.
(47-50) 48 lines + headline ('Pro hemium'), 181(190)x120mm
Types 140 G. title + headlines, 1st lines of prologue
+ text; 76 G Capital spaces in table + occasionally
elsewhere. The headline give the number + titles of
each 'etas' on the verso + the foliation on the rectos
woodcuts. Diagrams. a6; A-K8 LM6
The text proper ends with notes on the death of M.
Corvinus in 1490. 16 small woodcuts [inserted] (including Noah's Ark + Tower of Babel) [end inserted] including 5
repeats + 1 larger cut of Christ on 43a, besides a
number of diagrams.

Type 140 G (P. 10) title + heading type. Haebler's M 96
In use in + after 1489.

76 G - narrow upright text type. B, C, E, G, Z
souble shanked. Curly tailed h. In use 1490-95.
W. Rolewinck was a Carthusian aurhor of over 50 works of
theological + historical subjects He was a saintly as well as
a scholarly man. He died of the plague while ministering
to his brother monks so stricken.

In this ed. the invention of printing is found on the
verso of M3, in a long paragraph.

BMC VIII 266 Rolewinck, W. Fasiculus temporum (in the French
translation of Piere Farget) after May 1498
f^0 u-m8 96 leaves. 30 small cuts including 19
repeats + 2 large woodcuts.