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Notes
Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum, MD (Nuremberg, 1793-1803), III, 189, no. 667; "Zapf. p. 163. ex Catal. Schwindelii p. 15. ubi tamen nomen typographi non indicatur. Adesse tamen hanc editionem, eamque esse tertiam Ratdolti, puto."
Augsburgs Buchdruckergeschichte (Augsburg, 1788-91), I, 163, no. II of 1483: "S. Theoph. Sinceri oder Ge. Jac. Schwindelii Bibliotheca p. 15. n. 177. Sonst hab ich von dieser Ausgabe nichts entdecken können."
This is apparently the work referred to by Zapf, though I have been unable to confirm this reference.
Ludwig Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum (Stuttgart, 1826-38), no. 6933; Alfred W. Pollard, Italian Book Illustrations (1894), p. 28; Victor Masséna, Prince d'Essling, Les livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle (Florence, 1907-14), I, 269, no. 279, n. 1 ("Hain [6933] cite une édition de Venise, 1483, imprimée par Ratdolt, qu'il nous a été impossible de découvrir; elle n'est pas mentionée par Panzer"); Robert Diehl, "Erhard Ratdolt," Philobiblon, VI (1933), 126; and Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum, (1908-49), V, 289 & 290.
Gilbert R. Redgrave, Erhard Ratdolt and his Work at Venice (Bibliographical Society, Illustrated Monograph No. 1, London, 1894), p. 38, no. 39 ("The [citation] is perhaps due to an error in reading the date of No. 43 [1484]"); and Max Sander, Le livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530 (New York, 1941), III, 1133, no. 6528 ("L'existence d'une édition de 1483 est supposée par Essling . . . mais on n'en connaît aucun exemplaire.").
Ada Thurston and Curt F. Bühler, Check List of Fifteenth Century Printing in the Pierpont Morgan Library (1939), no. 858.
The original reads thus: "statui impresentia cum temporum fasciculum quem ter solus ego his in partibus italie impositis ordine suo figuris & signis ante hac impressi cura & opera diligentiori imprimendum sumpserim: opus ipsum laboresque meos tibi dicare."
Incunabula in American Libraries (1940), nos. R253, R256, R262, and R263. Of the Walch edition which will shortly be referred to, Miss Stillwell (R252) also records sixteen American copies.
For further details, compare Konrad Haebler, Die deutschen Buchdrucker des XV. Jahrhunderts im Auslande (München, 1924), pp. 107-110; BMC:xvii-xviii; and Redgrave, op. cit. Haebler too (p. 109) speaks of Ratdolt's five editions of the Fasciculus temporum.
Compare Leo Baer, "Bernhard, Maler von Augsburg, und die Bücherornamentik der italienischen Frührenaissance," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, II (1909), 46-57.
He is cited thus, for example, in the colophon of the Gesta Petri Mocenici (1477) by Coriolanus Cepio (Hain 4849; copy in PML, Check List, no. 848).
Haebler, op. cit., 113-114. The BMC (V:xxii) has this interesting comment: "Georgius Walch, a German whose name points to Italian ancestry, appears to have been connected in some way with Ratdolt, but the precise relation is obscure. His first recorded book, Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum, belongs to 1479, when Ratdolt had severed his connexion with Maler and Löslein but had not yet resumed printing on his own account. Its type closely resembles one which Ratdolt employed in the following year for an edition of the same work evidently modelled on that of Walch, while its woodcut capitals are even more like those used by Ratdolt both before and after this date and may possibly form part of the same sets."
The colophon (PML 324, f. 72) reads: "impressa Venetijs singulari industria atque impensa Georij Walch almani. anno domini 1479. Sixto quarto pontifice maximo: finit feliciter."
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