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JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (1434-1520). Novissime historiarum omnium repercussiones: noviter... edite: que Supplementum supplementi chronicarum nuncupantur . Venice: Giorgio dei Rusconi, 4 May 1506. 2° (305 x 205 mm). Collation: Aa-Bb 6 a 6 b-z & 9 \\a A-Z AA-FF 8 GG 6 HH 4 . 459 leaves (of 460, without HH4 blank). Roman type (title in gothic type). Shoulder notes: topics in outer margins, inner margins with date-line rule separating the year of the world from the year anno domini . Large woodcut on title of coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicino, 95 woodcuts in the text, including 47 repeats: four (the Creation of Eve, expulsion from Eden, Cain slaying Abel, and the Tower of Babel) printed as full-page cuts with the addition at top and bottom of large ornamental border blocks, the Creation cut with criblé white-on-black four-part border, the other borders black-line with faces of the sun and moon, opening text page (a1r) within four-part black-line ornamental border, schematic "T-O" form world map with a diagram-map of the climates within white-on-black foliate border on a5r (Shirley 1, note), 89 small woodcut town views in various sizes. White-on-black woodcut initials. (Title a bit soiled and marginally stained, worming to first 25 and last 75 leaves, most severe at end, occasional marginal dampstaining.) Modern half morocco over thick pasteboards, preserving 19th-century speckled paper sides with gilt stamp of Signet Library and most of 18th-century gilt backstrip with later lettering-piece, edges stained red. Provenance : Joannes Sapidus (1490-1561), ownership inscription dated 1511 at head of title ("Est Joannis Sapidi MDXI Christi Anno"); marginalia in 16th- or 17th-century hands; "Sum M. Jo. Caroli Schotelij(?) P.L. 1643 Constat", (cropped) inscription on title; "Krippendorf", 17th- or 18th-century inscription on title; "Dochtler", 17th- or 18th-century inscription on title; "Mlje Veesenmeyer, Prof. VI Class. 1817 m. Oct.", inscription on front flyleaf; Signet Library, supralibros. Sixth illustrated edition of Jacobus de Bergamo's world chronicle, with the text updated to 1503. Like the previous edition, printed by Albertino de Lessona in 1503, this edition describes the discovery of America under the year 1493 (FF8v-GG1r). The larger biblical cuts are those of the 1503 edition, for which Albertino had had new blocks cut copying the subjects of the incunable editions. The text border, not used in the 1503 edition, first appeared in the 1492 Ragazzo Bible; the sun and moon borders were used in Albertino's edition, while the criblé border appears here for the first time. The town views are printed from the blocks used in the previous edition, including 12 blocks from Benalio's original illustrated edition of 1486 and a few from the 1490 edition. This volume was formerly owned by the German humanist Johannes Sapidus. After studying in Paris as a contemporary of Beatus Rhenanus, Sapidus returned in 1512 to his native Sélestadt to head the grammar school, where he advocated the study of Latin letters and introduced Greek. Sapidus was a friend of Erasmus and the two exchanged laudatory verses in print ( Contemporaries of Erasmus III, pp. 195-96). Adams F-749; Alden & Landis 506/3; Essling 347; Sabin 25084; Sander 921.