Rvdimenta mathematica
Subtitle: haec in duos digeruntur libros, quorum prior geometriae tradit principia seu prima elementa, unà cum rerum & uariarum figurarũ dimensionibus : posterior uerò omnigenum horologiorum docet delineationes
By: autore Sebastiano Munstero
Contributors: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: In Officina Henrichi Petri
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; Sundials; Horology
Other titles: Rudimenta mathematica; Omnigenum horologiorum delineationes; De omnium generum horologiorum delineatione, compositione & fabricatione
Notes: Publisher and date from colophon. Heinrich Petri's device with hammer striking fire from a rock on last p. (Basler Büchermarken, 76).

Book 2 has separate t.p., p. 69; title: De omnium generum horologiorum delineatione, compositione & fabricatione. Petri's 1st ed. of this work appeared in 1531 under title: Compositio horologiorum.

The [2] leaves of plates comprise one double plate, hinged in at the center fold. It depicts the "large sun-dial" after Hans Holbein (see Hollstein 88e). Some of the other ill. after Holbein seem to have been recut (e.g. the "small sun-dial" on p. 151); cf. Hollstein.

Includes index.

Errata on recto of last leaf, including the ill. meant for p. 145.

New Hollstein.  German engravings, XIV-A 88a-e, 92a-l

Binding: limp vellum stained brownish. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge.

Library's copy inscribed in brown ink on recto of front free endpaper with a name followed by a saying apparently taken from the plate facing p. 1: Conradús Planta Rhetus anno domini 1571 die 10 Martij / Vt uita sic fugit hora.

Loosely inserted in Library's copy is right triangle cut from paper and labelled with the names of the sides in Latin.