Bod-Inc: H-252
Hyginus, C. Julius
Poetica astronomica (ed. Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter).
Analysis of Content
a1v [Woodcut of a sphere entitled ‘Scemmus(!) spherecina(!) secundum Hyginii descriptionem'.]
a2r Hyginus, [C. Julius]: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] M. Fabius. See H‑250.
a3r Hyginus, [C. Julius]: Poetica astronomica. Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter (as noted in CIBN). See H‑250.
g7v Sentinus, Jacobus: [Verse addressed to his readers.] Incipit: ‘Si quis ades sacrum Cyrram conscendere montem | Qui cupias musas uel coluisse nouem'; 27 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 22 Jan. 1485. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–g8.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ih00561000
Hain: HC *9063;
Goff: Goff H‑561;
BMC: BMC V 289;
Proctor: Pr 4398;
Others: BSB‑Ink H‑460; CIBN H‑335; Essling 286; Oates 1758; Sack, Freiburg, 1929; Sander 3473; Sheppard 3683. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography.
LCN: 14533900
Copies
Copy number: H-252(1)
Bound with A‑158(1); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 210 × 152 mm.
Wanting e2.
A manuscript title and corrections to the printed title on a1v in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Marginal notes in the same sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand as the annotations in item 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.7(3).
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