[Fasciculus temporum]

Name:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1471

Description:

World and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. The first printed edition was published in Cologne in 1474; in editions published in 1479, the election of Sixtus IV in 1471 is mentioned within a longer entry for 1474 that is not present in this manuscript.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Nardecchia (Rome), 1956.

Subject:

World history -- Early works to 1800; World history; Church history -- Early works to 1800; Church history

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; drawings (visual works); chronologies (lists); Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

40 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 417 x 273 mm bound to 429 x 286 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).; Foliation: Paper, 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.; Decoration: Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).; Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet Griffon 7465 (Florence, 1464).; Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1471 (last date in manuscript, f. 40v).; Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 725