Bod-Inc: A-014
Achillinus, Alexander
De orbibus coeli.
Analysis of Content
a2r Achillinus, Alexander: ‘De orbibus.’ See Thorndike V 37-49; Lohr, Renaissance, 5.
i3v ‘Tabula.’
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 7 Aug. 1498. Folio.
Remarks: GW records the types incorrectly. BMC suggests that the book may have been printed for Hectoris by an unidentified printer using materials formerly owned by Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis (before his death in 1496, the latter had printed for Hectoris).
Collation
Collation: a–h6 i4.
References
ISTC: ia00037000
GW: GW 191;
Hain: HCR 72;
Goff: Goff A‑37;
BMC: BMC XII 60;
Proctor: Pr 6638;
Others: Sheppard 5390.
LCN: 14332972
Copies
Copy number: A-014(1)
Binding: Italian eighteenth-century(?) half parchment over pasteboards.
Size: 318 × 221 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 310 × 209 mm.
‘Cælum Indignum' in pencil by modern hand on modern endleaf. Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century(?) hand at the beginning of book I and in the following books.
Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); inscription in pencil on pastedown. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark, No. 590: see Catalogue (1831); sale (1841), lot 510. Old shelfmark B.3.192. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.46.
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