Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico & oras maritimas trimetro iambico Germanici quoq[ue] & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis
Contributors: Pisanus, Victor, d. 1549; Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500; Strata, Antonius de, fl. 1479-1492, printer; Aratus, Solensis; Dionysius, Periegetes; Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus
Publisher: arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Hoc opus impressum Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Ancient Geography; Ancient Medicine; Poetry; Constellations; Ancient Astronomy; Planets; Medicine; Astronomy; Geography
Other titles: Hic codex Avienii continet epigramma; Victor Pisanus magnifico ac singularis prudentiae uiro Paulo Pisano senatori Veneto S.P.D.; Arati Phaenomena.; Phaenomena.; Rufi Festi Auienii v.c. Arati phaenomenon liber.; Arati phaenomenon liber.; Orbis terrae felix.; Orae maritimae liber primus felix.; M. Tulii Ciceronis fragmentum Arati Phaenomenon.; Fragmentum Arati Phaenomenon.; Quinti Sereni medicinae liber.; Medicinae liber.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from end of pref. (fol. a3v); imprint from ISTC.

Edited by Victor Pisanus in collaboration with Giorgio Valla; cf. pref.

"Rvfvs Festvs Avienivs v.c. Flaviano Myrmeico v.c. svo salvtem": fol. a4r.

"Rufi Festi Auienii v.c. Arati phaenomenon liber": fol. a4r-d3v.

"Eivsdem Orbis terrae felix" (Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes): fol. d3v-f6r.

"Orae maritimae liber primvs felix": fol. f6r-g8r.

"Fragmentu[m] Arati Phaenomenon per Germanicum [Julium Caesarem] in Latinu[m] conuersi [sic] co[m]mento nuper in Sicilia repertum": fol. h1r-m8r. Commentary by Avienus.

"M. Tvlii Ciceronis fragmentvm Arati Phaenomenon": fol. m8v-n6v.

"Qvinti Sereni [Sammonici] Medicinae liber": fol. n7r-p6r.

"Victor Pisanus ad Paulum Pisanum in postremo opere co[m]monitio": fol. p6v.

Colophon (at p6r): Hoc opus impressum Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis anno salutis Mcccclxxxviii octauo Calendas Nouembres.

Variant colophon in GW: Hoc opus impressumq[ue] Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremoeosis anno salutis Mcccclxxxviii octauo Calendas Nouembres.

The first, 58th, and last two leaves are blank.

Signatures: a℗£ʻ́ b-pı́

Chancery quarto, 38 lines; area of text: 159 x 100 mm. Types: 84 R., 84 Gk. Initial spaces with guide letters. Register at end.

Includes 38 woodcut illustrations of constellations in Germanicus Caesar's Phaenomena. The woodcuts are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis; cf. BM 15th cent.

BM 15th cent., V, p. 294 (IA. 21262)

ISTC, ia01432000

BN cat. des incun., A-495

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., A-639

BSB-Ink, . A-969

Goff, A-1432

GW, 3131

Klebs, 137.1

Hain-Copinger, 2224 = Hain 2223

Polain, 445

Proctor, 4593

IDL, 602

IGI, 1131

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: contains 2 bibliographically related slips, one laid in, one pasted onto front pastedown; first and final two blank leaves (fols. a1, p7 and p8) lacking; contains marginal notes, underlining and editorial corrections in red and black.