Opticae thesaurus : Alhazeni arabis libir spetem, nunc primùm editi. : Eiusdem liber De crepusculis & Nubium ascensionibus. : Item Vitellonis thuringopoloni libri X. / Omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti, adiectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs, A' Federico Risnero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alhazen, 965-1039.

Contributor:

Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, dedicatee.

Gherardo, da Sabbioneta, active 13th century.

Witelo, active 13th century.

Jayyānī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʻādh.

Risner, Friedrich, -1580.

Episcopius, Eusebius, 1540-1599, printer.

Nicolai fratris haeredes, printer.

Series:

Early European books.

Standardized Title:

Manāẓir. Latin.

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Optics--Early works to 1800.

Optics.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 474 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Opticae thesavrvs

Place of Publication:

Basileae, : Per Episcopios., MDLXXII. [1572]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

'Cum priuilegio Caesarea & Regis Galliae ad sexennium."

Contains 3 works. Work 3 has separate pagination, register and title page with full title 'Vitellonis Thvrinopoloni Opticae libri decm. Instaurati, figuris nouis illustrati atque aucti: infinitis[que] erroribus, quibus antea scatebant, expurgati a Federico Risnero'.

De crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus is probably not by Alhazen but by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʻādh Jayyānī-- Sabra, A. I. "The authorship of the Liber de crepusculis," Isis, 58(1), 1967.

Main title page followed by a three-page dedication to Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589), Queen of France, by Friedrich Risner and one page of errata. The following leaf (fourth unnumbered leaf at the beginning) is blank. Title page of work 3 followed by a four-page dedication to Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589), Queen of France, by Friedrich Risner and an errata leaf. The final leaf contains a woodcut printer's device on the verso.

Colophon: Basileae, ex officina Episcopiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, & Nicolai F. haeredes. Anno M.D.LXXII. mense Augusto.

Ms. notes.

T.p. vignette, initials, printer's device on colophon.

Imperfect: an engr. vignette has been pasted on the t.p.

Reproduction of original in: Wellcome Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2012 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2012 miun o

Cited in:

Wellcome cat. of printed books, 3044/D/2

VD16, H693

Adams, A745

Related Work:

Witelo, active 13th century. Opticae libri decem. Latin

Contains:

De crepusculis & nubium ascensionibus.

OCLC:

908687602

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.