Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
MARIANUS SCOTUS; and MARTINUS POLONUS [i. e., MARTIN of Opava]. Mariani Scoti . . . Chronica . . . Adjecimus Martini Poloni . . . Historiam. Edited by Johannes Herold. [1] leaf (of [6]), 2 pages, 3-486 columns, [6] leaves; 22 pages, 23-251 columns, [1] page, [14] leaves; lacks the editor's 5-leaf dedicatory letter to Queen Elizabeth I of England following the title. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 318x196 mm, later vellum boards, spine defective, covers warped and detached; contents foxed, occasional browning and dampstains, worming through blank gutter of opening leaves, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf; calligraphic title in ink on bottom edge. Basel: (Jacobus Parvus for) Joannes Oporinus, (1559)

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first editions of a world chronicle from the Creation to the author's time by an 11th-century Irish Benedictine monk residing in Germany, and a parallel chronicle of popes and emperors by a 13th-century Dominican Bishop, an early source for the legend of Pope Joan. Potthast, pages 766, 771; Sarton I, 775, and II, 1111.