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ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum , in Dutch: Dat boek dat men hiet Fasciculus temporum . Utrecht: Johann Veldener, 14 February 1480. Chancery 2° (271 x 195mm). Collation: [1-29 8 30 6 31 8 32 4 33-42 8 43 1 0] (1/1r blank, 1/1v printer's device with text surround, 1/2r author's preface, 1/4v tabula, 2/1r text, 25/8v blank, 26/1r chronicle of France, 28/8v blank, 29/1r chronicle of England, 31/1r chronicle of Brabant, 33/1r chronicle of Utrecht, 37/1r chronicle of Flanders, 38/1r chronicle of Holland, 42/1r chronicle of Geldres, 42/8 blank, 43/1r chronicle of Cleve, 43/6v bishops and archbishops of Cologne, 43/7r bishops of Liége, 43/7v chronicle of van der Mark and van den Berg, 43/9r colophon, printer's device, 43/9v-10 blank). 336 leaves (of 340, lacking 1/1 and 10/7 and without blank 42/8 and 43/10); quires quires 21-24/1 misbound between 19/7 and 19/8; fos. 28/1.8, 31/1.8 and quires 33-36 possibly from another copy. 38 lines and 3 columns in table. Type: 5:114G, 4:89B, printed guide-letters. Full woodcut ornamental frame in four parts to preface and first text leaf, large decorative initial opening preface, historiated initials opening text, 35 woodcuts from 20 blocks, numerous coats-of-arms, Veldener's device (Juchhoff 55), ALL WOODCUTS COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND, except those on fos. 28/1.8, 31/1.8, and quires 33-36. 2- to 5-line initials in red or blue, red or blue paragraph marks, red capital strokes. (Woodcut borders on 1/2r and 2/1r shaved as usual and with small tears, some staining and light soiling, lower margin of 1/8 replaced, some printed marginalia just shaved, several short tears, most neatly repaired, repaired tear into text on 41/8 without loss, 43/9 mounted on blank verso.) 18th-century speckled calf, narrow gilt border to sides, gilt spine with two leather labels, red sprinkled edges (slight wear at spine, hinges splitting, joints repaired). Provenance : early ownership inscription below printer's device at end deleted, arms on device painted over and partly defaced, one or two contemporary annotations,-- 18th-century cardinal (bookplate with motto 'virtutis amore cano') -- U. Proost (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH, with extensive supplements on the history of the dukes of Brabant, bishops of Utrecht, and counts of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut, as well as the kings of France and England. Veldener had already printed a Latin edition of the Fasciculus temporum , the first printed chronological history of the world, at Louvain in 1475. Veldener illustrated his Dutch-language edition with 20 woodcuts, 12 of which are strongly based on cuts in the Rudimentum novitiorum (Lübeck 1475) and 8 which Veldener first used in his Louvain edition and in which some have seen Veldener's own hand as artist (cf. Arnim, Schäfer 288, notes 6-7); the set of coats-of-arms are original to the Utrecht edition are the work of the "Utrecht woodcutter" (Conway p.209). HC 9646; BMC IX, 12 (IB. 47086-a); Goff R-278; IDL 3950; Schreiber 5122a; Cinquième centenaire 76.