Bod-Inc: J-183
Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Sphaera mundi.
Analysis of Content
A1v [Woodcut: Astronomia, Urania, Ptolomaeus.]
A2r Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi. ‘Nouiciis adolescentibus ad astronomicam rempublicam capessendam aditum impetrantibus . . . utili serie contextum fausto sidere inchoat.’ See J‑179.
C1r Regiomontanus, Johannes: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] all scholars. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam emisimus indicem operum quae librariis nostris . . .’
C2v Regiomontanus, Johannes: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. Incipit: ‘Viennensis. V. Cracouiensis. C. [S]i quis forte roget quamobrem potissimum ad hanc aedem diui Petri apostoli . . .’ See J‑181.
D5r Purbachius, Georgius: Theoricae novae planetarum. ‘De Sole.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ol habet tres orbes a se inuicem omniquaque diuisos . . .’ See J‑181.
G6r ‘Carmina in impressorum huius opusculi laudem.’ Incipit: ‘Vranie quantum quantum debere fatentur | Cuncta canopeo, cognitaque astra uiro'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis, 31 Mar. 1488. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A10 B8 BB12 C8 D8+1 E–F8 G6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts and woodcut initials. Some of the woodcuts are printed in yellow and red.
References
ISTC: ij00407000
Hain: HC *14112;
Goff: Goff J‑407;
BMC: BMC V 462;
Proctor: Pr 5183;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑505; CIBN J‑272; Essling 260; Oates 2030; Sander 6663; Sheppard 4281-2.
LCN: 14029306
Copies
Copy number: J-183(1)
Bound with:
1. Johannes Jovianus Pontanus, De rebus coelestibus. Basel: [n.pr.], 1530;
2. Jacobus Bracellus, [De bello hispaniensi.] Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1530;
3. Janus Lacinius Calabrus, Praeciosa artis chymiae collectanea de philosophorum lapide. Nuremberg: Gabriel Hain, 1554;
4. Leonhard Fuchs, Libri iiii difficilium aliquot quaestionum explicationes continentes . . . Basel: Robert Winter, 1540;
5. Johannes Regiomontanus, Calendarium. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 21 Mar. 1489 (R‑036);
7. Johannes Hispalensis, Epitomae totius astrologiae. Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg and Ulrich Neuber, 1548;
8. Plutarchus, De virtute et vitio. [Greek.] Paris: Gilles de Gourmont, 1519;
9. Theodorus Gaza, Liber quartus et ultimus de contructione. Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1516;
10. Richardus Crocus, Introductiones in rudimenta graeca. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1520.
Binding: Seventeenth-century English blind-tooled calf, rebacked; triple fillets form a frame with a lozenge-shaped floral tool as a centre-piece. The original spine is pasted onto the front pastedown.
Size: 190 × 129 × 94 mm.
Size of leaf: 182 × 122 mm.
A few marginal notes, extracting key words, in an early humanist hand. Manuscript list of contents on the front endleaf in Ashmole's hand.
Provenance: William Averrelle (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r of item 5: ‘Wylliam Averrelles Booke' written over a different name, possibly that of William Bedwell(?) (1563-1632). William Lilly (1602-1681); inscription on a1r of item 1. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.
SHELFMARK: Ashm. 134(6).
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