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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459, Saint). Summa historialis, sive Chronicon . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 31 July 1484. 3 volumes, royal 2 o (vol. 1: 375 x 260 mm; vols. 2-3: 390 x 260 mm). (Vol. I) [1-2 6; 3-6 8 7-38 6; 39 6] blank, 1/2r table, 2/6 blank; prologue, 3/2r table, 3/3r text part I, 38/6 blank; index, 39/5v-6 blank). 235 leaves (of 236, without the first blank). (Vol. II) [1-2 6; 3 8 4-42 6; 43 6] blank, 1/2r table, 2/6 blank;blank, 3/2r table, 3/3r text part II, 42/6v blank; index, 43/6 blank). 257 leaves (of 260, without blanks 2/6, 3/1). (Vol. III) [1-2 6; 3 8 4-43 6 44 1 0; 45 6] blank, 1/2r table, 2/6 blank;blank, 3/2r table, 3/3r text part III,v blank, index, 45/5-6 blank). 266 leaves (of 270, without blanks 2/6, 45/5-6). 68 lines, double columns. Types 8:84G (text), 9:165G (headlines). Three 20- or 21-line, one 10-line, numerous 5- to 2-line initial spaces. Nuremberg illumination consisting of 3 very large Lombard initials in burnished gold on grounds of blue with white tracery or mauve with liquid gold tracery, one large blue Lombard initial with white tracery on burnished gold ground, the gold decorated with incised dots and rosettes. Rubricated with red and blue Lombard initials, red paragraph marks and underlines, capital strokes, brackets and pointing hands in margins. (Front flyleaf to vol. III detached and laid in, vol. I with ca. 5 leaves cropped touching headline, intermittent faint dampstain to inner margins of vol. I and upper margins of vol. III, reinforcements to inner margins of most leaves in vol. I, a few tiny mostly marginal wormholes at the beginning and end of each volume; small puncture in III:3/3 touching 3 letters.) 17th-century blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps (a few unobtrusive stains, one tailcap slightly frayed). Provenance : occasional contemporary marginalia -- HILPRAND BRANDENBURG (d. 1514): his woodcut hand-colored bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation on the front flyleaf of vol. III ( Liber Cartusiensium in Buchshaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, continens ultimam partem Cronice Anthonini archiepiscopi Florentini. Oretur pro eo, et pro quibus desideravit ) -- Buxheim, Charterhouse: contents note, donation inscription, 16th-century inscriptions ( Cartusiae Aulae B. Mariae in Buxheim ), armorial library stamps, stencilled shelfmarks L210, L211, L212 in red ink on paper labels at foot of spines -- Graf von Ostein -- Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim: sale, Carl Förster, Munich, 1883 -- pencilled initials "AE" inside back cover of vol. I -- "coll.compl.Sch." pencilled inside back covers of vols. I and II - Joseph F. Mittong, St. Louis: book labels -- [Sotheby's New York, 27 February 1973, lot 247] FIRST EDITION. The Chronicon , or Summa historialis , of Antoninus Florentinus, archbishop of Florence, was composed during the last twenty years of its author's life and was intended as a supplement to and illustration of his Summa moralis (see lot 14). Whereas that work offered a survey of moral theology, the Chronicon presented history as a series of examples of righteous living. Extending from Creation to the year of the author's death, the work is a compilation of ancient, medieval and contemporary sources, the last including the Florentine writers Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni. Although the Chronicon is largely derivative, for the events of Antoninus' lifetime it constitutes a significant original source. This copy was presented to the Charterhouse at Buxheim by Hilprand Brandenburg. A portion of the original fifteenth-century endleaf to volume III, with Buxheim's characteristic note of donation and contents, together with Brandenburg's hand-colored woodcut bookplate, was affixed to the later flyleaf of volume III, presumably when the set was rebound in the 17th century. A some point this flyleaf was torn out of its parent volume and sold separately. When it