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Editore: Augsburg, Johannes Miller, 1515
Da: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat, Zurich, Svizzera
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With full-page title-woodcut by Hans Burgkmair, some floral woodcut initials, and large woodcut printer's device at the end. 70 unn. leaves. Small folio. Marbled 18th-century boards. (Augsburg, Johannes Miller, 21 March 1515). Editio princeps of Jordanes' (6th cent.) chronicle of the Goths, a primary source of the epoch of the völkerwanderung, together with the exemplary edition of Paulus Diaconus' (or Warnefrid, d. 797) important history of the Langobards, first printed in 1471. Editor of both historical sources is the Augsburg town scribe Conrad Peutinger (1465-1547) with his privilege issued by Emperor Maximilian I, dated 1511, printed on title verso. It is followed by the dedicatory letter to the Italian Count Hieronymus Nogarola, in which Peutinger mentions the astronomer Johannes Stabius as co-editor. Nogarola is known for handing over the keys of the town of Vicenza to Maximilian when he was approaching after the siege of Padova. At the end of Jordanes' work, Peutinger gives a short summary of the epoch of the decline of the Roman Empire and the migration of nations. The impressing title-woodcut by Burgkmair, executed by Jost Dienecker, according to Muther one of his most important works, shows the Langobardian king Alboinus talking to Athanaric, king of the Goths. - Old name and note on first paste-down, title somewhat dustsoiled and with old ms. note on lower white margin, contemp. ms. marginal notes and underlinings throughout, margins cropped affecting some written or printed marginal notes. - VD 16 J 932; STC (German) 463; Adams J-320; Proctor 10826; Fairfax Murray 229 (illus.); Potthast 682 (Jordanes) and 900 (Paulus Diaconus, "Wirklich vortreffliche Ausgabe"); Brunet III, 567; Apponyi 109 (calls for 64 leaves only); Muther 868; ADB XXV, 565 (Peutinger, "trefflich bearbeitet"). HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ; CHRONICLES / CHRONIKEN ;