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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Contributor:
Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.
Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.
Series:
Early European books.
Standardized Title:
Sphaera mundi. Latin. 1490
Language:
Latin
Subjects (All):
Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Genre:
Incunabula.
Printing in multiple colors (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.
Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ( 95 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts)
Other Title:
Title from incipt: Sphaerae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat
Place of Publication:
[Venice] : Impressum est Venetiis mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Octauiani Scoti ciuis modoetiensis., anno Salutis M.cccc.lxxxx.quarto nonas octobris [4 Oct. 1490]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Contents:
Ioánis de Sacro Busto Sphaericum opusculum.
Disputationum Ioannis de Monte Regio contra Cremonensia in planetarum theoricas deliramenta praefatio.
Theoricae nouae planetarum Georgii Purbachii.
Notes:
Incipit: Sphaerae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat. Following that is a statement of the contents of this ed.: ... Ioa[n]nis de Sacro Busto Sphaericu[m] opusculu[m] una cu[m] addit[i]o[n]ibus no[n]nullis l[itte]ra A sparsim ubi i[n]tersertae sint signatis, Co[n]traq[ue] Cremone[n]sia i[n] planetar[um] theoricas delyramenta Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]teregio disputat[i]o[n]es ... nec no[n] Georgii Purbachii i[n] eoru[n]de[m] motus planetar[um] accuratis. theoricae dicatu[m] opus ...
Colophon reads: Hoc quoq[ue sideralis scientie singulare opusculum Impressum est Venetiis mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Octauiani scoti ciuis modoetiensis Anno Salutis M.cccc.lxxxx.quarto nonas octobris.
Publisher's device printed in red below register on leaf f8r; ISTC lists printer as Bonetus Locatelli.
"The woodcut[s] ... appear to be from the same blocks employed by De Sanctis in his 1488 edition"--BM 15th cent. The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked brownish yellow; one ill. is printed using an additional block inked red.
With initials; without foliation, catchwords. Register at end.
Signatures: a-f⁸.
Reproduction of original in: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze -- Incunabula.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2010 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2010 miun o
Cited in:
Goff J-409
IGI, 5346
CIBN, J-273
BSB-Ink, I-507
ISTC, ij00409000
BM 15th cent., V, p. 438
GW, M14646
Contains:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.
Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum.
OCLC:
809802165
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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