Sphera mundi /
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de,active 1230.
Cecco,d'Ascoli,1269-1327,commentator.
Capuano, Francesco,commentator.
Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques,-1536,commentator.
Bevilaqua, Simon,active 1485-1518,printer.
Peurbach, Georg von,1423-1461.Theoricae novae planetarum.
Marescot, Guillaume,1567-1643,former owner.StEdNL
Impressum Venetiis : Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaquam [et] summa diligentia correctum : Ut legentibus patebit,
anno Christi siderum conditoris MCDXCIX [1499]. Decimo calendas Nouembres [i.e. 23rd Oct.]
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁸ e-z⁶ & ⁶ [con]⁴ ( -[con]4) chi1.
Anonymous. By Joannes de Sacrobosco.
Imprint from colophon on leaf o6r.
Printer's device with inscription "Simo[n] Beuiaqua" at foot of leaf o6r.
Leaves a3-5 exist in two states; in one, leaf a3r begins "dELUCIDATIS", in the other it begins "dELUCIdatis". The latter state is sometimes found issued with an additional final gathering of four leaves signed 9. This copy: text surrounded by Cecco's commentary, begins "dELVCIdatis causis recurrendum est ad formā tractatus. Diuiditur autem iste tractatus in quattuor capiula:ut autor ponit in littera." Capuano's and Lefèvre d'Etaples' commentaries follow the text itself.
Cichi esculani viri clarissimi in sphaeram mundi enarratio--leaf a1v-a2r.
Includes Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum, which begins on leaf p1; the title page, Theorice noue planetarum cum commento, on the verso of final leaf bound in at end.
Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams.
Spaces left with guide letters for initials.
With manuscript annotations in early hand.
Bound with Johann Stoeffler. Calendarium Romanum Magnum (Oppenheym: J. Köbel, 1518).
BM 15th cent.,
Hain
Goff
GW
ISTC
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Acquired by the Advocates Library not after 1776.
17th-century sprinkled calf with gilt stamped arms of Guillaume Marescot on front and back boards and modern reback.
Astronomy
Italy Venice.