Compendium sive breviarium primi voluminis annalium sive historiarum de origine regum et gentis Francorum ad reverendissimum in Christo patrem et principem dominum Laurentium episcopum Vuitzpurgenum orientalisque Francie

1515 FAMED Trithemius History of FRANKS Frankish Kings Macromer Childeric France

Johannes Trithemius was a 15th-century German Benedictine monk who was known for his works on monastics, spiritual exercises, and occult magic. One of his most important works "Annalium sive historiarum de origine regum et gentis Francorum". This work, first published in 1514, proved to be one of the earliest published works on the history of the Franks and Frankish kings. Trithemius describes the earliest of Frankish leaders such as Macromer I, Antharius, and Dagobert I ending with Childeric III the final Merovingian king and the election of Pepin the Short and the start of Carolingian dynasty in 751AD.

This 1515 edition of Trithemius's "Francorum" is incredibly rare and valuable with only one known example sold at auction in the last decade.

Item number: #25424

Price: $2950

TRITHEMIUS, Johannes

Compendium sive breviarium primi voluminis annalium sive historiarum de origine regum et gentis Francorum ad reverendissimum in Christo patrem et principem dominum Laurentium episcopum Vuitzpurgenum orientalisque Francie

Moguntina [Mainz]: Johann Schöffer impensis honesti Johannes Haselberg, 1515.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages

o [112] unnumbered pages

o Signatures: [pi]⁴ A⁶ B-C⁴ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ G⁴ H⁶ I-L3

o Colophon: (37 lines in the shape of a chalice, followed by Schöffer device)

· References: USTC 623703; Adams T 968

o Alfred Pollard on Roman and Gothic type font: "The two largest types [of font] used for the first line of the title and for names in headings are those of the Psalter of 1457"

o Pollard on initials: "some pretty capitals of the French style"

· Language: Latin

· Binding: Vellum; secure

· Size: ~7in X 5.25in (18cm x 13.5cm)

· Exceedingly rare and desirable

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