Sphaerae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat
Contributors: Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer; Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher; Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476; Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461; Chasles, M. (Michel), 1793-1880, former owner
Publisher: Impressum est Venetiis mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Octauiani scoti ciuis modoetiensis
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Venice]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Astronomy
Other titles: Sphaera mvndi
Work titles: Sphaera mundi
Notes: Imprint from colophon (f7v).

Title from incipit (a2r).

Signatures: a-f́ı

The woodcut diagrams present throughout the text́some of which are printed in coloŕare from the same blocks employed by Hieronymus De Sanctis in the 1488 edition and may have been designed by J.L. Santritter.

With a half-title.

Large and small woodcut initials throughout.

Publisher's device printed in red below register on leaf f8r.

ISTC lists the printer as Bonetus Locatelli.

ISTC, ij00409000

USTC, 993977

BM 15th cent., V 438

Goff, J-409

GW, M14646

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown cloth with a white paper label on the spine. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the half-title (a1), with the ink stamp of the same on both the verso (a1v) and on f7v. Marginalia is present throughout the Peurbach tract, appearing on leaves: d6v, d7r, d7v, d8v, e3r, e5r, e5v, e6r, e6v, e7r, e7v, f1r, f1v, f2r, f2v, f3r, f4v, f5v, and f6v. Wormhole damage is present in the lower right corner of leaves a-b2. The bookplate of the Bowditch Fund is present on the front pastedown and that of Michel Chasles on the rear.
Table of contents: title: Sphaera mundi  -- Joannes de Sacro Bosco; title: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta  -- Joannes Regiomontanus; title: Theoricae novae planetarum -- Georg von Peurbach.