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Sphaera mundi.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Gherardo, da Sabbioneta, active 13th century. Theorica planetarum.
- Gherardo.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (bookplate) (donor)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 48 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Sphaera mvndi
- Incipit of text (leaf a2r): Sphaerae mundi compe[n]dium foeliciter inchoat
- Fingerprint:
- aqta m.n- ece- asua (C) 1491 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Impressum est Venetiis : Per Magistrum Gullielmum de Tridino de Monteferrato, Anno Salutis M.cccc.lxxxxi. die. xiiii. Ianuarii [14 Jan. 1491]
- Contents:
- Sphaera mundi / Joannes de Sacro Bosco
- Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta / Joannes Regiomontanus
- Theoricae novae planetarum / Georg von Peurbach.
- Notes:
- A page-for-page reprint of the 1490 ed. printed by Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, using the same woodcut blocks. Here the color printing is less well executed, using yellowish brown ink, with the second color being a dull orange.
- Text begins: Nouiciis adolesce[n]tibus: ad astronomica[m] rep. capessenda[m] aditu[m] i[m]petra[n]tibus [pro] breui recto[que] tramite a uulgari uestigio semoto: Ioa[n]nis de sacro busto sphaericu[m] opusculu[m] una cu[m] additio[n]ibus no[n]nulis l[itte]ra A sparsim ubi i[n]tersertae sint signatis: Co[n]traq[ue] cremone[n]sia i[n] planeta[rum] theoricas delyramenta Ioa[n]nis de monteregio disputat[i]o[n]es ta[m] accuratis. q[uam] utilis: Nec no[n] Georgii purbachii: i[n] eoru[n]de[m] motus planeta[rum] ac curatis. theoricae dicatu[m] opus: utili serie co[n]textu[m]: fausto sidere i[n]choat.
- Imprint from colophon on leaf f7v, which reads: Hoc quo[que] sideralis scientie singulare opusculum Impressum est Venetiis per Magistrum Gullielmum de Tridino de Monteferrato Anno Salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. die. xiiii. Ianuarii.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf a3r: 42 lines; area of text: 160 x 120 mm. Woodcut initials. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Full-page woodcut illustration (145 x 96 mm.) of Astronomia flanked by Urania and Ptolemy on verso of title leaf; numerous other woodcut illustrations and diagrams (those on leaves d6v, e2v, e5r, e6r, e7v and f2r printed in color) in text. Register on leaf f8r.
- Signatures: a-f⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 205 x 144 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: underlines, capital strokes, puncti and a few paragraph marks supplied in red ink on several leaves; some initials partially hand-colored in red.
- Penn Libraries copy: some illustrations and diagrams partially hand-colored in yellow or yellow and red ink.
- Penn Libraries copy: the word "Ptolemy's" supplied in ms. in brown ink above title on title leaf; some early underlines, marginal marks and notes in brown ink in text.
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in honor of Horace Howard Furness by Horace Howard Furness, Jr., and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness.
- Penn Libraries copy has illustrated bookplate of Horace Howard Furness, Jr., affixed to front pastedown; octagonal paper slip with an unidentified coat of arms affixed to title leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in three-quarter gold-ruled red morocco over marbled paper boards; title ("PTOLOMEI SPHAERA MUNDI--VENET 1491") stamped in gold on spine; ornament tooled in gold at foot of spine; marbled endpapers; gilt tops.
- Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy: leaf f8 mounted on a blank leaf; title leaf mended at fore-edge and inner margins.
- Cited in:
- Goff J-410
- BM 15th cent., V, p. 412 (IA.23085)
- GW M14644
- BSB-Ink. I-508
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2203
- ISTC ij00410000
- Contains:
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.
- Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum.
- OCLC:
- 23694207
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