Dialogus in Astrologie defensionem cnm [sic] Uaticinio a diluuio vsq[ue] ad Christi annos. 1702. Ioannis Abiosi Neapolis Regni Ex balneolo mathematicarum professoris Artium [et] Meditine Doctoris
Contributors: Palladius, Domicus, Soranus, approximately 1460-approximately 1533; Lapicida, Franciscus, active 1494, printer
Publisher: Franciscus Lapicida
Published: 1494
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Astrology; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Dialogus in Astrologie defensionem cum Vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702
Notes: With a 7-line poem by Domicus Palladius Soranus on the last leaf.

Title from caption on first leaf.

Dedication at head of title reads: Ad inuictissimum ac potentissimum bello et prudentissimum Sicilie Regem Alfonsum.

Imprint from Goff.

Colophon reads: Finit opus Dialogi ac vaticinij compositum per Peritissimum Doctorem Ioa[n]nem Abiosum Anno Christi. 1492. Transmissum tamen Ac directum Inuictissimo Regi Alfonso. Die quarto Iunij. 1494. Et Impressu[m] Uenetijs Die. 20. octobris 1494. Per Magistrum Franciscnm [sic] Lapicidam in contrata Sancte Lucie.

Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ (e6 blank).

Chancery quarto, 44-49 lines; area of text: 162 x 112 mm. With a few ornamental woodcut initials (leaves a1-c5) and initial spaces with guide-letters (leaves c6-e1); without foliation and catchwords.

Includes 4 schematic diagrams (leaves a5v, b8v, c5r, and d3v) and one almost full-page woodcut illustration (144 x 97 mm.) on the title leaf: Astrologia on her throne.

Text of line 19 of leaf a2v varies, may begin "Demo[n]stratio" or "QUuonia[m]".--Cf. GW.

BN cat. des incun., A-2

BSB-Ink., A-2

Goff, A-8

GW, 6

Klebs, 1.1

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2626A