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Hic codex auienii co[n]tinet epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] arati phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico, & oras maritimas trimetro iambico, germanici quoq[ue], & marci tulii arati fragmenta, & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avienus, Rufius Festus.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 1488
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Geography, Ancient.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900 (autograph, 1893)
- Physical Description:
- 122 unnumbered leaves (first, 58th, and last two blank) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Opera
- Place of Publication:
- Hoc opus impressum Venetiis : arte & ingenio Antonii de Strata Cremonensis, anno salutis M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas nouembres [25 Oct. 1488]
- Notes:
- A collection of works by Avienus, including his Arati Phaenomena, as well as two other adaptations of Aratus's Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar and Cicero, and the Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus.
- Title from end of preface on verso of leaf a3.
- Imprint from colophon; a variant colophon reads: Hoc opus impressumq[ue] Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de strata Cremoneosis. Cf. GW.
- Edited by Victor Pisanus. Cf. dedication, leaf a2.
- Colophon on leaf g7 reads: Rufi Ffstia[!] Auienii opera finiunt.
- Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, g8, p7-8 blank).
- Chancery quarto. 38 lines of text to a full page; area of text: 159 x 100 mm. Initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Includes 38 woodcut ill. in the Germanicus Caesar which are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis. Cf. BM 15th cent.
- This volume contains the Arati Phaenomena by Avienus (leaves a4r-d3v); Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes (leaves d3v-f6r); Ora maritima by Avienus (leaves f6r-g7r); Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, with a commentary by Avienus (leaves h1r-m8v); Aratea by Cicero (leaves m8v-n6v); and Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus (leaves n7r-p6r).
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 206 x 147 mm.
- Without rubrication.
- With the autograph of John Stockton Hough dated 1893 on front free endpaper.
- Description of this title (from the Olschki catalog) pasted to front pastedown endpaper.
- With a few pinpoint wormholes, mostly in margins.
- Imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting.
- Cited in:
- Goff A-1432
- GW 3131
- BM 15th cent. V, p. 294 (IA. 21262)
- BN cat. des incun. A-495
- BSB-Ink. A-969
- Contains:
- Avienus, Rufius Festus. Arati Phaenomena.
- Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D. Phaenomena.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Aratea.
- Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus. Liber medicinalis.
- OCLC:
- 187647150
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