Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasaris Abalachi octo continens libros partiales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abū Maʻshar, -886.

Contributor:

Hermann, of Carinthia

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

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Madkhal ilá ʻilm aḥkām al-nujūm. Latin

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy, Arab.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

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

Czarnecki, Zygmunt (bookplate) (former owner) (Lea copy)

Mayrhofen, M. J. de (bookplate) (former owner) (Lea copy)

Bieliński, Władysław Hrabia (former owner) (stamp) (Lea copy)

Inglis, John Bellingham (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

70 leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Incipit: Incipit liber introductorius in astronomiam Albumasar Abalachi

Liber introductorius in astronomiam Albumasar Abalachi

Explicit: Opus introductorii in astronomiam Albumazaris Abalachi explicit feliciter ...

Goff title: Introductorium in astronomiam

Fingerprint:

ioin sti- tesq geta (C) 1489 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : [Erhard Ratdolt], [7 Feb. 1489]

Notes:

Author and title from title leaf.

Translated by Hermannus Dalmata [i.e. Hermann of Carinthia]. Cf. ISTC.

Imprint from colophon, which reads: Opus introductorii in astronomia[m] albumazaris abalachi explicit feliciter Erhardi ratdolt mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper venetijs nunc auguste vindelico[rum] excellit no[m]i[n]atissimus. 7. Idus Februarij. 1489.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 40 lines; area of text: 151 x 106 mm. Printed initials and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut illustrations: signs of the zodiac and planetary signs (some repeated); 3 astrological diagrams.

Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Lea copy bound with: Abū Maʻshar. Flores Albumasaris. [Augsburg : Erhard Ratdolt, 18 Nov. 1488]. (Goff A-356)

Leaf size (Lea copy): 207 x 153 mm.

Rubrication (Lea copy): underlines and capital strokes supplied in red; a few initials and illustrations hand-colored in red.

Provenance (Lea copy): From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to back pastedown and his autograph (1876) on title leaf of Flores astrologiae. Armorial bookplates of Zygmunt Czarnecki and M.J. de Mayrhofen affixed to front pastedown; stamp of Władysław Hrabia Bieliński on leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries Lea copy bound by Kurt Gaebel and Sons (Holland, PA) in one-quarter modern brown morocco over wooden boards; spine stamped in gold with author, titles ("Flores Astrologiae and Introductorium in Astronomiam"), date and shelf-mark ("Inc. LEA 1877"); remains of 1 leather and metal clasp with metal catchplate; binding signed at foot of back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Lea copy has a few ms. marginal notes in text.

Penn Libraries Lea copy: gathering c bound out of order as follows: c1, c3, c4, c2, c7, c5, c6, c8. Signatures supplied in ms. in pencil at foot of leaves c5-c8.

Penn Libraries RBC copy bound with: Abū Maʻshar. Flores Albumasaris. [Augsburg : Erhard Ratdolt, 18 Nov. 1488]. (Goff A-356)

Leaf size (RBC copy): 196 x 141 mm.

Penn Libraries RBC copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has ms. general title leaf ("Introductorium & Flores Albumasaris") in a modern hand inserted at beginning of volume; several early ms. marginal notes and marks in text.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has armorial bookplate of John Bellingham Inglis affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries RBC copy bound by John Faulkner (with his ticket affixed to front pastedown) in full blue morocco; boards tooled in gold and blind; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; spine tooled in gold at head and foot; 2 spine panels lettered in gold with brief title ("Albumasar Flores") and date ("Mcccclxxxviii") and remainder tooled in blind; blind-ruled cover edges and gold-tooled turn-ins; salmon endpapers; all edges gilt; red silk marker; stamp of Kurt Gaebel & Sons on back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: leaves cropped with occasional minor damage to ms. marginalia; leaves b1-b2 mended at head outer corner.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: facsimile available for public use.

Cited in:

Goff A-359

BM 15th cent. II, 382 (IA. 6683)

GW 840

BSB-Ink. A-230

BN cat. des incun. A-194

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 623-624

ISTC ia00359000

OCLC:

29808434