Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus : annorum reuolutionibus ac eorum profectionibus, octo continens tractatus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abū Maʻshar, -886.

Contributor:

Joannes, Hispalensis, 12th century.

Kindī, -approximately 873.

Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512.

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

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Selections. Latin. 1489

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1800.

Astrology, Arab.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

118 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, diagrams (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: De magnis coniunctionibus

De magnis conjunctionibus

Fingerprint:

u.ta noi- m.i- scqu (C) 1489 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt viri solertis ..., qua nup[er] Venetijs, nunc Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit no[m]i[n]atissim[us], pridie Kal[endas] Aprilis [31 Mar.], 1489.

Notes:

Translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the author's Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī. Cf. Sarton. An introd. to the hist. of science. Baltimore [1927] v. 1, p. 568, and Enzyk. d. Islām.

Edited by Johannes Angelus. Cf. colophon.

Imprint from colophon, which reads: Opus Albumazaris De magnis co[n]iunctionib[us] explicit feliciter. Magistri Iohannis Angeli viri peritissimi dilige[n]ti correctione, Erhardi[que] Ratdolt viri solertis eximia industria, [et] mira imprimendi arte, qua nu[per] Venetijs, nunc Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit no[m]i[n]atissim[us] pridie Kal[endas] Aprilis, 1489.

Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁶ P⁸.

Chancery quarto. Leaf A3r: 40 lines; area of text: 150 x 106 mm. Printed initials and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut illustrations: signs of the zodiac and planetary signs (some repeated); 2 astrological diagrams; blank space (for illustration?) on leaf M8v and N4r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 210 x 154 mm.

Rubrication: capital strokes and underlines supplied in red; some illustrations hand-colored in red.

Ms. section numbers in pencil in the upper margin of most leaves; word in text on leaf P6v underlined and transcribed in outer margin in pencil; 1 modern ms. leaf (brief inscription in ink and diagram in pencil on recto, diagram in pencil on verso) bound in after leaf E2.

Provenance: From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to front pastedown and autograph (1876) on recto of front free endpaper.

Binding: in modern quarter blue leather over blue cloth boards; blind-stamped spine panels with author and title gold-stamped in one panel and date in another; covers detached.

Cited in:

Goff (rev.) A-360

BM 15th cent., II, p. 383 (IA. 6689)

GW 836

BSB-Ink. A-226

BN cat. des incun., A-195

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 625

ISTC, ia00360000

Hain-Copinger, 611*

Stillwell, M.B. Science, 9

OCLC:

81977697