Sphera mundi nouit[er] recognita cu[m] co[m]me[n]tarijs & authorib[us] in hoc volumine co[n]te[n]tis vz [videlicet] ..

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Label

Sphera mundi nouit[er] recognita cu[m] co[m]me[n]tarijs & authorib[us] in hoc volumine co[n]te[n]tis vz [videlicet] ..

Instantiates

• Sphera mundi nouit[er] recognita cu[m] co[m]me[n]tarijs & authorib[us] in hoc volumine co[n]te[n]tis vz [videlicet] ..

Publication

• Venetijs, Impensis nobilis viri domini Luceantonij de Giunta Florentini, die vltimo Junij 1518

Note

• Imprint from colophon
• Signatures: A6 B-2F8 2G6 (-2G6)
• Woodcuts: one large white-on-black historiated initial; smaller black and white ornamental initials throughout text; numerous astronomical diagrams and drawings of celestial phenomena, including one full-page illustration of an arm extending through a cloud, holding an armillary sphere, with labels identifying the equator, North and South Poles, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Zodiac; large printer's device at end (the Giunta lily device, with initials "L" and "A" of Luca-Antonio Giunta)
• Printed in gothic type, in two columns
• Preliminaries include an "oratio" or discourse by Bartolomeo Vespucci, nephew of Amerigo, and professor of astronomy at Padua, on the value of astronomical studies
• Poem in praise of compiler, Hieronymus de Nuctavellis, on verso of last leaf
• Not in Adams or Renouard

Contents

(from t.p.) Cichi Eschulani cum textu -- Joannis Baptiste Capuani -- Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis -- Theodosii De spheris cum textu -- Michaelis Scoti Questiones -- Petri de Aliaco Cardinalis Q[uesti]ones -- Roberti Linconiensis Compendium -- Theodosii iterum De Spheris cum textu -- Tractatus de sphera solida -- Theorice planetarum conclusiones cum expositione -- Campani Tractatus de sphera -- Eiusdem Tractatus de computo maiori -- Joannis de Monte Regio in Cremone[n]sem Disputatio -- Theorice [Georgii Purbackii] textus cu[m] Joa[n]nis Baptiste Capuani expo[sitio]ne -- Ptolomeus De speculis -- Theorica planetarum Joannis Cremonensis: plurimum faciens ad disputationem Ioannis de Monte Regio qua[m] in alijs hactenus i[m]pressis non reperies

Dimensions

31 cm. (fol.)

Extent

[1], 253 [i.e. 234] leaves

Note

Spec. Coll. copy: contemporary limp vellum binding, reinforced with leaves of printed music, arranged on 5-line red staff, with square notation in black, and Latin words; ms. title "[Sp]h[a]era Mundi Diuerso." on spine and fore-edges; small paper label on t.p. bearing typed shelf mark; ms. shelf mark above title.

Other physical details

ill. (woodcuts)

Record ID

3893942

System control number

• (OCoLC)06616346
• ucoclc6616346