Fasciculus temporum / [Werner Rolevinck].

Venetijs : Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt, 24 November, 1480.

76 unnumbered leaves (first blank) : woodcuts: initials, illustrations, diagrams ; (folio)

BM Inc v.283

Poynter 503

St R253

Stillwell R253

Proctor 4379

Hain 6926

Goff R261

Redgrave 17 (facsim. Pl. 4)

Essling 277

Sander 6526

Schreiber 5111a

Polain (B) 3371

Geldner, Die deutschen Inkunabeldrucker II, 79 (facsim.)

Ongania, L'art de l'imprimerie a Venise 72 (facsims.)

No signatures: [A⁸; a-h⁸, i⁴]

Imprint from colophon

Incipit ([A*2] recto): Tabula breuis [et] vtilis super libello / quoda[m] qui dicit[ur] fasciculus temporum

Colophon ([i*4] recto): Explicit chronica qui dicit[ur] Fasciculus tempo[rum]: edita [per] quenda[m] carthusie[n]sem. Nunc secu[n]do / emendata cum quibusdam additionib*9: vs[que] ad hec nostra tempora. Venetijs impressa: cura / impensis[que] Erhardi ratdolt. de Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni. M.CCCC.LXXX. xxiiij. men[sis] nouem / bris. Xisto. iiij.̊ pontifice maximo. [et] Ioanne mocenico: Duce. lxvj ̊hui*9 alme vrbis Venet[iarum?]. / Laus Deo

Gothic type (BMC 76G; Redgrave 4) here in its earliest form (before recasting), in use only in 1480; 3 cols. in table; 1 col. in introduction; 1-4 cols. in text, interspersed with rules, diagrams, and small woodcuts (many repeats)

Foliated initials à fond noire; "G" on [a*1] recto employed only in Ratdolt's editions of Fasciculus temporum

"The body of the text in this edition corresponds page for page with that in Walch's edition of the preceding year ..., but Ratdolt supplies many woodcuts for which spaces are left by Walch, while the account of the death of Charles the Bold [1477] is laudatory of Charles and is followed by eight pages of new matter" (BMC, V, 283-4)

This edition ends with an account of the siege of the city of Rhodes by the Turks in 1480

This is one of the earliest books Ratdolt printed alone and the first of his five editions of Rolevink