Fasciculus Temporum

Werner Rolevinck, Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 21 December 1481. A folio printed on paper and bound in recycled parchment manuscript waste, incorporating fragments of a medieval Breviary in Gothic textura script with red rubrics (Germany, Diocese of Cologne?, 14th–15th century). The binding carries a partly effaced blind armorial stamp, also echoed in impressions on the flyleaves. The volume measures 330 × 220 mm, with leaves of 296 × 230 mm and variable writing spaces depending on the layout, which alternates between one and three columns to accommodate diagrams and woodcuts. The copy is rich in contemporary and later marginalia, including manicules, underlinings, reading marks, and thematic notes such as “sodoma gomorra.” A notable entry on f. 64r records an early poetic reference to the spread of printing: “Et impresores librorum multiplicantur in terra.” The first quire is loose, and the flyleaf bears handwritten author and title notes, along with a watermark aligned with the cover stamp. Provenance includes Bernard Quaritch (London), whose signature collation note remains on the back flyleaf, Helmut Tenner (Heidelberg), Harald Engebretsen (who purchased it in 1974), and its 2025 donation to the University of Bergen Library, where it now forms part of the Bibliotheca Landaasiana.