Prefatio magistri iohannis de thwrocz
Subtitle: in primu[m] libru[m] Chronice hungaror[um] foeliciter incipit
Contributors: Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490, dedicatee; Rogerius, Archbishop of Split, approximately 1201-1266; Feger, Theobald, active 1484-1509, publisher; Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Wessobrunn (Monastery)
Publisher: Erhard Ratdolt, for Theobaldus Feger
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Prefatio magistri Johannis de Thwrocz in primum librum Chronicae Hungarorum foeliciter incipit; Compendium historiae regum Hungarorum ab anno 969 usque ad anno 1459; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Chronica Hungarorum
Notes: Title from caption at beginning of preface on leaf a1 recto.

Imprint from colophon (y9 verso): Serenissimoru[m] hungarie regu[m] chronica bene reuisa ac fideli studio emendata finit fe / liciter Jmpressa erhardi ratdolt viri soler / tissimi eximia industria et mira imprimendi arte : qua nuper venetijs nu[n]c Auguste ex / cellet nominatissimus. Impensis siquidem Theobaldi feger conciuis Budensis An / no salutifere incarnatio[n]is millesimo q[ua]drin / gentesimo octogesimo octauo tertio nona Junij.

In this state, lacks "Austriq[ue] ducis" in line 2 of heading on a1 recto. Has "Nec aliqn" after "expungnavit" in line 13 on v2 recto. For further information on variants, see Sajo-Soltesz and BM 15th cent.

Signatures: pi℗ø a-ǵı h́œ i℗£́ʻ k-óı ṕœ q-t́ı v́þ x́ı y℗£́ʻ (v3-v4 and y10=blank).

Median quarto; 38 lines per page; woodcut initials and illustrations.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, 381

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, T-204

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries T-361

Hain-Copinger, 15518* = Hain 15516

Incunabula short title catalogue, it00361000

Sajo-Soltesz, 3324

Cataloged 20170728 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in 19th-century diced Russia and papier tourniquet (rebacked). Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Pennant Barton. BPL perforation stamp on pi2. Imperfect: v3, v4 and y10 (all blanks) wanting. Ownership inscription of the Benedctine monastery at Wessobrunn, Germany, on pi1 recto: "In usum fr[atru]m Wessobrunensium." Early/contemporary marginal annotations throughout. Leaf dimensions: 237 x 160 mm. Acquired in 1873.
Table of contents: title: Woodcuts, [pi1]v-[pi2]r; Theobaldus Feger. [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Matthias [Corvinus], King of Hungary and Bohemia, [pi2]v; Johannes de Thwrocz [or Thuroczy]. Chronica Hungarorum, dedicated to Thomas de Drag, Chancellor to King Matthias Corvinus, caption on leaf a2r "Exordiu[m] narratio[n]is in prima[m] parte[m] chronice hu[n]garoru[m]", incipit "HE su[n]t generatio[n]es noe & filior[um] illi[us]", explicit "altiori dignioriq[ue] p[ro]sequent[ur] o[mn]ia particulatim p[ro]ut acta fuere. Finis", a2r-v2r, preceded by preface on leaves a1r-a2r; woodcut, entitled "Ingressus tartaror[um] in hungaria[m] temporibus regis Bele quarti", x1v; Rogerius. Carmen miserabile super destructione regni Hungariae per Tartaros facta, x2r-y8v; [Verse], incipit "Quanta sit inuicti terrena potentia sceptri: / Gloria : maiestas : phama perennis : honor :", 9 elegiac distichs, y9r; colophon, y9v; publisher's device, y9v; printer's register, y9v.