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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS Chronicon. Partes I-III "Summarium primi voluminis partis hystorialis." Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 31 July 1484. Three volumes, bound in late 17th or early 18th century brown calf gilt, spines with seven compartments between raised bands, labels in red in second compartment, other compartments tooled in gilt and blind, all edges sprinkled red and brown. 14 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (37 x 27 cm); Volume I: 232 ff. [of 236 ff., lacking the four blanks], consisting of [10] ff. Summarium, [2] ff. Prologus, with illuminated initial, 215 ff. text, [5] ff. register; Volume II: 259 ff., erratically bound though textually complete (but lacking all blanks), consisting of [10] ff. Summarium, [1] ff. Tabula, [240] ff., with the text bound out of order, leaves as follows, 1-5, 187-241 (N.B. page 213 was omitted from the pagination by the printer--the text is continuous from 212 to 214, as in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy), [5] ff. register, 121-186, 73-120, 6-72, followed by [4] ff., the part 3 register, which should be in the third volume; Volume III: 268 ff., [10] ff. Summarium, [1] ff. blank, [1] ff Tabula, 256 ff. text, textually complete (lacking all but one blank) N.B. the register is bound in the preceding volume. Two columns, 68-9 lines to the page, rubricated throughout, with supplied lombard initials in red and blue at the beginnings of chapters, paragraph and capital strokes throughout in red, and four very fine preliminary initials illuminated in the Nuremberg manner (two at the beginning of the first volume, and one apiece in the second and third) in burnished gold decorated with incised dots and rosettes, on colored grounds with vinework. Bindings refurbished with new endpapers, some evidence of wear but still extremely handsome. A large, clean and unpressed copy of the work, with very occasional early marginalia, one initial with small loss of gilt, repaired defect with slight loss of text in the first two leaves of the Summarium of part III, part II bound out of order as noted above. Each volume with the ink ownership mark of the Bibliotheca Weissenaviensis (i.e. the Abbey of Weissenau) at the foot of the first text leaf, a small stamp of a Jesuit library at the head, and various other ownership stamps and marks on the endpapers. A major beautiful three-volume work printed by Koberger. The fine illuminated initials appear to be from the same Nuremberg workshop as the Friedlaender/Kraus copy, sold Sotheby's New York, Dec 4, 2003, . Goff A778; HC 1159*; Pell 813; GW 2072. C