Rudimenta mathematica
Subtitle: haec in duos digeruntur libros, quorum prior geometriae tradit principia seu prima elementa, unà cum rerum & uariarum figuraru[m] dimensionibus, posterior uerò omnigenum Horologiorum docet delineationes
By: autore Sebastiano Munstero
Contributors: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, illustrator; Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer; Petri, family of printers, printer
Publisher: In Officina Henrichi Petri
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; Surveying; Instruments; Horology; Sundials
Other titles: Rvdimenta Mathematica
Notes: Special half title for Part II: De omnium generum horologiorum delineatione, compositione & fabricatione.  First published separately, 1531, under title: Compositio horologiorum; re-issued, 1533, under title: Horologiographia.

Publisher's name and imprint date from colophon.

Printed by Jakob Kündig for Heinrich Petri; cf. Zinner, E.  Astronomische Lit. in Deutschland, no. 2022.

Signatures: a, A-E, F, G-T, V, X (av and A blank)

Petri's device: verso of last leaf.

Initials; printed marginal notes.

Large woodcut on title page and many cuts in text; several, including large folded plate of the 'universal wall clock', attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger.

Woodcut below errata list (p. [1] at end) intended to be inserted at foot of leaf 145.

Includes index.

Rare Book copy (PLIMPTON 510 1551 Sch6): Bound with Schonerus, Johanes. Opera mathematica. Norinbergae : Ioannis Montani & Vlrici Neuberi, 1551.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, M1939

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), M6675