82 3342 Incunabula and early 16th cent books Ryd V A
- Three contemp. illegible owner's entries on title; waterstained in upper part throughout; bookplate on verso frontcover; without pastedowns.
= First edition of the brief world chronicle compiled by the Bernese humanist and historian, Valerius Anshelm Ryd. Illustrated with a large number of woodcuts, of which several are by the Master of I.K. (today identified as Jacob Kallenberg). The larger woodcut showing the Nativity is monogrammed "CHvF", probably Claus Hagenbach. Adams R984; Graesse IV, p.198; Brunet IV, p.1474. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
BOUND WITH: Regino Prumiensis. Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum Germanorum gestis et docte et compendiose dissrentes, ante sexingentos fere annos editi. Ed. S. von Rotenhan. Mainz, J. Schöffer, 1521, 12,58,(2) lvs., woodcut title border, large woodcut portrait and large woodcut coat of arms, both of Sebastian von Rotenhan.
= First edition of the medieval chronicle of Regino, Abbot of Prüm. It originally ended in 906 but was continued until 967 by a Trier monk, probably Adalbert von Magdeburg. The editor, humanist, cartographer and jurist Sebastian von Rotenhan dedicated his edition to Emperor Charles V. Adams R276; Graesse VI, p.64; Brunet IV, p.1182.