Margarita philosophica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reisch, Gregor, -1525.

Contributor:

Schott, Johann, 1477-1548, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Latin--Early works to 1600.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Latin.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Freiburg im Breisgau -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

604 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, map, music ; 23 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

t.i- bam. s:is Ilqu (C) 1503 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Freiburg im Breisgau] : Chalchographatum primiciali hac pressura Friburgi p[er] Ioanne[m] Schottu[m] Argen[toraci], Citra festu[m] Margareth[a]e anno gratiae MCCCCCIII [19 July 1503]

Notes:

This is the first edition, as the colophon states, despite references to earlier issues. Cf. Sabin, Becker.

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2f5r.

Signatures: pi⁸ 1⁶ 2-4⁸ a-q⁸ r⁶ A-B⁸ C⁴ D-K⁸ L-M⁶ 2a-2d⁸ 2e⁴ 2f⁶.

Leaves pi2 and pi4 signed "2" and "4", respectively.

The last leaf is blank.

Woodcut illustration on title leaf depicting a crowned, three-headed, winged female figure holding an open book in her right hand and a scepter in her left; at her feet are 7 female figures with emblems of the 7 liberal arts. These figures are surrounded by a circle, on the upper half of which is inscribed, "Phi[losophi]a Triceps (Naturalis, Rationalis, Moralis) Humana[rum] Rerum" and on the lower the names of the 7 liberal arts. The circle is enclosed in a square in which are represented at top Sts. Augustine, Gregory, Jerome, and Ambrose (with the legend "Phi[losophi]a Divina") and at bottom Aristotle (with the legend ("Phi[losophi]a Natura") and Seneca (with the legend "Phi[losophi]a Mora"). Cf. J. Ferguson, "The Margarita Philosophica of Gregorius Reisch: A Bibliography" in The Library, 4th ser., 10 (1930), p. 198.

Woodcuts: 22 full page illustrations: "Typus Gra[m]matice" (f. pi3r); "Typus Logice" (f. '4'8v); "Typus in Rhetoricam" (f. d6r); "Typus Arithmeticae" (f. f1v); "Typus Musice" (f. h3r); Astronomy standing behind a crowned Ptolemy (f. l8v); Ptolemy on a diagram of the spheres, with Astronomy above (f. m2v, repeated on f. D3v); celestial sphere (f. m6v); zodiacal man (f. p3r); creation of Eve (f. r6v, repeated with a different border on f. D1v); Fortune and her wheel (f. A7v); "Halo, Galaxia, Iris, Cometa" (f. E2v); internal anatomy of a man (f. F2v); the birth of a child (f. F4r); diagram of the eye (f. G3r); diagram of the brain (f. H2r); Campus Gloriae (f. K7r); Loci infernales (f. L6v); Limbus puerorum (f. M2v); printer's device (f. 2f5v).. "There are [also] numerous smaller diagrams, especially in the sections on Geometry and Astronomy, to illustrate the questions discussed in the text."-- J. Ferguson, "The Margarita Philosophica of Gregorius Reisch: A Bibliography" in The Library, 4th ser., 10 (1930), p. 201.

Woodcut initial and tail-piece (f. pi4v).

Plates: 2 folded plates accompany the section on music: "Descriptio Inuentionis Semitonij minoris" and a diagram (uncaptioned) of relations between musical tones; 1 folded plate accompanies the section on astronomy: a map of the world, which derives from that of Ptolemy as published in 1482 at Ulm. Cf. Becker.

Initial spaces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: map wanting.

Rubrication: some initials supplied in red and some in black; some underlines, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and brackets supplied in red at beginning of volume; some woodcuts at beginning of volume accented in red.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 bookseller's printed descriptions, 1 affixed to front pastedown and 1 to front free endpaper; ms. bibliographic notes in ink and pencil on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 ms. former ownership inscriptions (1 partially effaced) on title leaf; a few early ms. underlines and marginal notes; early ms. shelf mark at foot of back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy: evidence of finding tab at fore-edge of leaves A1, K7 and L6.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf k7 torn off at tail outer corner with minor damage to diagrams and replaced with a blank leaf (on which damage portions of diagrams are supplied in ms.); leaf l3 torn and mended at fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

VD 16 R1033

Ferguson, J. Margarita Philosophica, p. 197-201

Sabin 69122

Becker, U. Reisch, p. 5-8.

OCLC:

187475482