Ymago mundi incipit
Subtitle: Prima figura. Figure seque[n]tes ad declaratione[m] [et] intellige[n]tiam ymaginis mu[n]di p[er]tine[n]t
Contributors: Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher: Johann of Paderborn
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Louvain
Language: lat
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Geography; Cosmography; Astronomy; Calendar
Other titles: Imago mundi incipit
Work titles: Imago mundi
Notes: Title from caption and 1st sentence of text on verso of 1st leaf.

Author's name, "Petru de Alyaco," from verso of leaf a1.

Publication statement from Goff.

In addition to the Imago mundi, contains other astronomical and geographical works by Ailly and Joannes Gerson.

Chapter 19 has a reference to the theory that India lay not far to the west of Spain.

Signatures: pi⁶ a-k⁸ l⁴ 2a-2i⁸ 2k¹° (pi1 recto, a1 recto, pi6, and 2k10 blank)

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-477.

Stillwell, M.B. Awakening interest in science during the first century of printing, 1450-1550, I.89.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:13.

Purchase; 1846; 0226.