Bod-Inc: A-476
Astrolabii Canones
Analysis of Content
a2r [Ketenensis, Robertus]: ‘In opus et instrumentum astronomicum Astrolabium uel Planispherium appellatum Canones.’ Incipit: ‘[S]phera solida que et astrolabium sphericum appellatur, cum sit astronomice scientie instrumentum excellentius . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1525; L. Thorndike, ‘Robertus Angelus', Isis, 34 (1942-3). According to ISTC this is identical with the text printed as Robertus Anglicus, De astrolabio canones. Perugia: [Petrus Petri de Colonia, Fridericus Eber, and Johannes Conradi, c.1477-9]: see Goff R‑203 and Rhodes 1512.
b8r ‘Partis secunde huius de mensurationibus rerum tractatulus.’ Incipit: ‘[M]ensurationum genera declarare . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, c.1497-8]. 4°.
Remarks: Polain dates [c.1494].
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d6.
Illustrations: 62 woodcut diagrams.
References
ISTC: ia01171000
GW: GW 2759;
Hain: H *1898;
Goff: Goff A‑1171;
BMC: BMC V 458;
Proctor: Pr 5169;
Others: Polain 340; Rhodes 179; Sander 649; Sheppard 4267.
LCN: 13979003
Copies
Copy number: A-476(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 223 × 155 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 213 × 144 mm.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; on a1r: ‘Inc. Dupl. 5636' and note dated 3.3.[18]58; on d6v no. 209. Purchased from the Fidelis Butsch catalogue (1858) no. 209 for £1. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 6, where it is recorded as Augsburg: Ratdolt, 1490.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.7.
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