Incipit liber Abraham iudei de natiuitatibus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164.

Contributor:

Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De nativitatibus

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astrology--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Liber Abraham iudei de natiuitatibus

Incipit liber Abraham Judei de nativitatibus

Fingerprint:

r-em isit t.st letr (C) 1485 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Erhard Ratdolt], [24 Dec. 1485]

Notes:

Title from incipit on leaf a2.

GW dates to 24 Dec. 1484.

Imprint from colophon on leaf d6, which reads: Finit felicit[er] opuscul[um] abrahe iudei de natiuitatibus cum exe[m]plarib[us] figuris singulis domibus antepositis: Et magistralis co[m]positio astrolabij Hanrici bate. Impressu[m] venetijs arte [et] impensis Erhardi ratdolt de augusta. Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is d[omi]nice. M.cccc.lxxxv. nona kalendas Ianuarij.

Also contains Henricus Bate's Magistralis compositio astrolabii. Incipit on leaf c5 reads: Magistralis compositio astrolabij hanrici bate ad petitione[m] fratris Uuilhelmi de morbeka ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m] d[omi]ni pape penitentiarij [et] capellani [et]c[etera].

Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶.

Chancery quarto. Area of text: 145 x 101 mm.; 38 lines. Floriated woodcut initials and 16 woodcut astrological diagrams, including 1 full-page ill. on verso of leaf a1; printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 202 x 138 mm.

Previously bound with three other astrological and cabalistic works. The contents of the volume, now disbound, are listed in ms. (in red and black) on front free endpaper. Vellum indexing tab pasted to first leaf.

Library's copy imperfect: last leaf (d6) mended at margins with no loss of text.

Library's copy given to the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1925 by the family of Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909).

Bound by Kurt Gaebel & Sons, Holland, PA (stamp on final free endpaper) in modern one-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards. Two raised bands on spine; with author's name, title, imprint date, and call number stamped in gold.

Cited in:

Goff A-7

BM 15th cent. V, p. 291 (IA.20551)

BN cat. des incun. A-3

GW 113

BSB-Ink. I-130

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1837-1838

Contains:

Baten, Henri, 1246-1310. Magistralis compositio astrolabii.

Magistralis compositio astrolabij.

OCLC:

55108051