Bod-Inc: B-161
Berlinghieri, Francesco
Geographia [Italian and Latin].
Analysis of Content
[*1v] [Note on contents.]
[*2r] [Table of contents.] ‘In quale libro et in quale capitolo et in quale tabula qualunque regione et qualunque isola maggiore posta sia'.
[*2v] Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Dedicated to Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.] Incipit: ‘[C]onsiderando meco, qual uia fusse, | per qual potessi ognhuomo al ciel redire, | la ragion questa innanzi a glocchi adduxe'; 31 strophes of 3 verses each and a single verse. On the previous plan to dedicate the work to Muhammed II, see Firenze e la scoperta dell'America: Umanesimo e geografia nel ’400 Fiorentino, ed. Sebastiano Gentile (Florence, 1992), no. 112.
aa1r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Prologue. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[G]ia l'auriga di Titano adorno el sagiptario.’
aa1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Apologus ad Federicum Urbini ducem'.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uem Iuppiter omnipotens orbis totius dominus ad terreni orbis imperium procreauit . . .’ See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum I, p. xliii, no. V 17; this edn is listed in P. O. Kristeller, Marsilio Ficino and His Work after 500 Years (Florence, 1987), 121; Marsilio Ficino, Lettere, ed. Sebastiano Gentile, I (Florence, 1990), p. clxxv.
aa2r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Books I and II. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[G]eographia e della parte intera.’
dd4r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. ‘Distantie eleuationi de siti soli posti nelle tabule'. [Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. [Eight maps.]
ee1r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book III. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
hh5r [Table of distances. Six maps.]
a1r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book IV. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
b7r [Table of distances. Four maps.]
b10r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book V. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
[†1r] [Table of distances. Five maps.]
e1r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book VI. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
[**1r] [Table of distances. Five maps.]
f1r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book VII. Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
f8r [Table of distances. Three maps.]
Imprint
Imprint: [Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, not after 10 Sept. 1482]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*2] aa10 bb–dd8 ee6 ff gg8 hh6 ii4 a6 b10 c d8 [†4] e8 [**4] f10. Gathering f is misnumbered.
Illustrations: 31 copper-engraved maps; see Geographia. Florence 1482, ed. R. A. Skelton, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, III/4 (Amsterdam, 1966), pp. XI-XII; B. Maracchi Biagiarelli, ‘Niccolò Tedesco e le carte della geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri autore-editore', in Studi offerti a Roberto Ridolfi, ed. B. B. Maracchi and D. Rhodes (Florence, 1973), 377-97.
References
ISTC: ib00342000
GW: GW 3870;
Hain: H *2825 (2nd issue, with mention of the first);
Goff: Goff B‑342;
BMC: BMC VI 629 (both);
Proctor: Pr 6121;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑296; CIBN B‑241; Campbell, Maps, 124-5 and 133-5, nos 148-78; Eames 66500 (1st), 66501 (2nd); Hillard 323; Rhodes 319; Sander 927; Sheppard 5063; Paolo Veneziani, 'Vicende della "Geografia" di Francesco Berlinghieri', Bibliofilia, 84 (1982), 195-208. Facsimile: Geographia. Florence 1482, ed. R. A. Skelton, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, III/4 (Amsterdam, 1966).
LCN: 13931453
Copies
Copy number: B-161(1)
Wanting leaf f10 (blank in some copies); the maps are backed.
First stage as GW, not as GW (Anm.).
Binding: Eighteenth-century German brown russia, the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns, the cover with the arms of Carl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria, the two shields with the arms of Bavaria, Jülich, Cleves, Berg, Mörs, Bergen-op-Zoom, Veldenz, Mark, and Ravensberg: see Siebmacher I/1, 16 pl. 20; see also Byw. A 3.8 and Auct. 5Q inf. 2.1-4 (B‑320(1)).
Size: 445 × 298 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 427 × 278 mm.
On f9v a colophon supplied in manuscript. Occasional manuscript notes.
Provenance: Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803); given by him to Carl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria (1724-1799); inscription on [*1r]: ‘Potentissimo et serenissimo principi Carolo Theodoro, comiti et electori Palatino, veterum monumentorum indagatori liberalissimo, Francisci Berlingherii geographiam per Nicolaum Alemannum Florentiae impressam anno circiter MCCCCLXXX, in qua prima chalcographiae specimina prodierunt, in ipsa Italia rarissimam, Angelus Mar[ia] Bandinius I. V. D., vt tanto principi studiorumque omnium fautori eximio quod erat in votis rem faciat gratissimam, devotus numini maiestatique eius D. D. D.' Anonymous sale (27 May 1840), lot 132. Purchased for £5. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1840), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q inf. 2.24.
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