Bod-Inc: A-003
Abiosus, Johannes
Dialogus in astrologie defensionem cum vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
a1v [Table of contents.]
a2r Abiosus, Johannes: [Letter of dedication to] Alphonsus II, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘Decreueram maiestas inuictissima totius orbis decus fulgentissime Rex Alfonse . . .’
a2v Abiosus, Johannes: Dialogus in astrologie defensionem cum vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702. Incipit: ‘Quoniam celestis sapientie varii detractores comperiuntur qui eorum sophismatibus atque superstitionibus eam diruere conantur . . .’
e5v Palladius Soranus, Domitius: [Verses addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opus haud dubites lector fluxisse sacello | Aonio nutuque dei peragrare superba'; 7 hexameters. Domicius Palladius, Epigrammaton libelli. Venice: Johannes Baptista de Sessa, 1498. Book II, f6v, lines 17 ff.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Franciscus Lapicida, 20 Oct. 1494. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8 e6.
Illustrations: Woodcut of ‘Astrologia', with the name added in type; four mathematical diagrams.
References
ISTC: ia00008000
GW: GW 6 (Anm.);
Hain: H *24;
Goff: Goff A‑8;
Proctor: Pr 5543;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑2; CIBN A‑2; Essling 756; Sander 1; Sheppard 4581.
LCN: 14332967
Copies
Copy number: A-003(1)
Bound with:
1. Jacobus Publicius, Artes orandi, epistolandi, memorandi. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 31 Jan. 1485 (P‑537(2));
3. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct. 1490 (J‑184(1)).
Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment over pasteboard.
Size: 220 × 160 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 152 mm.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 123(2).
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