Sphaera mundi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.

Contributor:

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Gherardo, da Sabbioneta, active 13th century. Theorica planetarum.

Gherardo.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Cosmography--Early works to 1800.

Cosmography.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Marqués de Astorga (bookplate)

Physical Description:

47 leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Incipit title: Spherae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat

Fingerprint:

exre m.ru eris tain (3) 1513 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Venetiis : Per Melchiorem Sessa, Anno salutis MDXIII die uero 3. Decembris [3 Dec. 1513]

Notes:

Incipit of text on leaf A2r reads: Spherae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat. Nouitiis adolescentib[us]: ad astronomica[m] re[m]pu. capessenda[m] aditu[m] impetra[n]tibus: p[ro] breui recto[que] tramite a uulgari uestigio se moto: Ioa[n]nis de Sacro Busto sphaericu[m] opusculum una cu[m] additio[n]ibus no[n]nullis littera Asparsim ubi i[n]tersertae sint signatis. Co[n]tra[que] cremonensia in planeta[rum] theoricas deliramenta Ioannis de monte regio disputatio[n]es tam acuratis. q[uam] utilis: Nec no[n] Georgii Purbachii: in eorundem motus planetaru[m] accuratis. theoricae: dicatu[m] opus utili serie contextum: fausto sidere inchoat.

Imprint from colophon on leaf F7v, which reads: Hoc quo[que] sideralis scientiae singulare opusculum. Impressum Venetiis per Melchiorem Sessa. Anno Salutis.M.D.XIII.Die uero.3.Decembris.

Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁸.

The last leaf is blank.

"Disputationem Ioannis de monte Regio contra Cremonensia in planetarum Theoricas deliramenta praefatio."--Leaves 22r-30r.

"Theoricae nouae planetarum Georgii Purbachii astronomi celebratiss."--Leaves 30v-47v.

Woodcuts: full-page title vignette of Ptolemy, seated below the signs of the zodiac, holding astronomical instruments, and flanked by the figures of Astronomia and the celestial muse, Urania (reprinted from the 1501 ed.); Sessa's device below colophon (white circle on black background, surmounted by a double cross, with his monogram "MS"); ornamental initials; numerous astronomical and mathematical diagrams throughout.

Register on leaf F7v.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1920.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves A1 (title leaf) and F8 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf mark(?) on recto and bookplate ("Biblioteca del excmo Señor Marques de Astorga.") on verso of blank leaf bound in at beginning of volume

Penn Libraries copy has numerous early ms. notes and underlines.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped with occasional damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Riccardi, P. Bib. mathematica, II, 446-447

Contains:

Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.

Puerbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum.

OCLC:

127566077