Ryd, Valerius Anshelm (c.1475-1546/47). Catalogus annorum et...

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Ryd, Valerius Anshelm (c.1475-1546/47). Catalogus annorum et principium
geminus ab homine conditio usque in presentem... 1540 annum. Folio. 6 prelim. &
68 numb. leaves. With different printer's marks on title and at end, and 139 smalle
and larger woodcuts in the text (including repeats). Berne, Mathias Apiarius, 1540.
First edition of the brief world chronicle compiled by the Bernese humanist and
historian, Valerius Anshelm Ryd. It is preceded by Ryd's dedication to the City
Council of Berne; a short tract «De usu et utilitate historiarum & quo iuditio
legendae sint» by Eberhard of Rümlang; a letter to the reader by Johannes Telor:
and a «Carmen ad lectorem» by Hieronymus Frick. This fine work of Mathia
Apiarius, the first typographer of Berne, is illustrated with 139 smaller and large
woodcuts (including some repeats), of which several are by the Master I. K, today
identified with Jacob Kallenberg, a painter and craftsman from Berne activ
between 1535 and 1565 (Thieme-Becker XIX, 470). One of the larger cuts, showing
the Nativity, is signed CHvF (pro-bably Claus Hagenbach; cf. Nagler, Monogr., II,
no. 160). Bound with Stumpf, Johann (1500-1576). Des grossen gemeinen
Conciliums zu Costentz... beschrey-bung... Item von Johann Hussen vnnd
Hieronymovon Prag.. Sampt warhaffter beschreybung des Kriegs... zwüsche
Keyser Sigmunden nd Hertzog Fridrychen von Oesterreych... Zürich, Christoph
Froschauer, 1541. [12], 174 leaves. First edition of this valuable chronicle of the
Council of Constance, drawn from various manuscript and printed sources, and
supplemented with an extensive index and a detailed list of all the participants.
Condition: title to first work browned, soiled and with ink annotation. Occasiona
staining, mainly to lower area of leaves. Contemporary blind-stamped half-pigskin
over wooden boards; two clasps.
320mm x 220mm