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Cologne; 1474.] FASCIC. TEMPORUM.
It has very few cuts, and is executed in the usually rude type of the
printer. The arabic numerals are very barbarous. A table of 8 leaves,
having 3 columns upon each page, precedes the proheme or preface;
which latter has no prefix, but terminates on the recto of the 10th
leaf, at bottom :
tjmi antiipiois cronica^ copicctcn^
incipit Micitcr ♦
A little above, in this preface, we learn, in respect to the work itself—
* omnia in sequentibus summa breuitate patebunt Modus autem
procedendi planissimus est, et grossitudini rusticanse adeo amicus ut
in pariete quidem depingi possit. eo quod ilico sine omni difficultate
intuentibus se offerat.’ &c. . . — c Et quia ex multis libris mendose
scriptis modum hunc non leui labore ad lineam veritatis correximus.
obsecramus pro christo lectorem ne inciuiliter manum ad corrigendum
hanc annorum supputacionem apponat nisi prius toto opere perspecto.’
On the reverse begins the Chronicle, with the Creation; the names
of the more remarkable personages, or characters, being printed within
circles. A wood-cut of the Ark and Bow is on the reverse of the fol-
lowing leaf; but there are only nine cuts, and of these, probably the
ensuing fac-simile is the most favourable specimen that could be
adduced of the state of the Art of Engraving at Cologne, as early a?
the year 1474 : see fol. 33, recto.
This was the work from which Caxton chiessy borrowed his materials
to supply an eighth book to Higden’s Polychronicon; see the Typogra-
phical Antiquities, vol. i. p. 148-9. The text ends with Francis de
Cologne; 1474.] FASCIC. TEMPORUM.
It has very few cuts, and is executed in the usually rude type of the
printer. The arabic numerals are very barbarous. A table of 8 leaves,
having 3 columns upon each page, precedes the proheme or preface;
which latter has no prefix, but terminates on the recto of the 10th
leaf, at bottom :
tjmi antiipiois cronica^ copicctcn^
incipit Micitcr ♦
A little above, in this preface, we learn, in respect to the work itself—
* omnia in sequentibus summa breuitate patebunt Modus autem
procedendi planissimus est, et grossitudini rusticanse adeo amicus ut
in pariete quidem depingi possit. eo quod ilico sine omni difficultate
intuentibus se offerat.’ &c. . . — c Et quia ex multis libris mendose
scriptis modum hunc non leui labore ad lineam veritatis correximus.
obsecramus pro christo lectorem ne inciuiliter manum ad corrigendum
hanc annorum supputacionem apponat nisi prius toto opere perspecto.’
On the reverse begins the Chronicle, with the Creation; the names
of the more remarkable personages, or characters, being printed within
circles. A wood-cut of the Ark and Bow is on the reverse of the fol-
lowing leaf; but there are only nine cuts, and of these, probably the
ensuing fac-simile is the most favourable specimen that could be
adduced of the state of the Art of Engraving at Cologne, as early a?
the year 1474 : see fol. 33, recto.
This was the work from which Caxton chiessy borrowed his materials
to supply an eighth book to Higden’s Polychronicon; see the Typogra-
phical Antiquities, vol. i. p. 148-9. The text ends with Francis de