Bod-Inc: J-187

Johannes de Sacro Bosco

Sphaera mundi (comm. Cirvelus).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.] ‘Uberrimum sphere mundi commentum insertis etiam questionibus domini Petri de Aliaco'.

a1v [Woodcut; armillary sphere].

a2r Petrus de Lerma Burgensis: [Verse in praise of the book addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘[S]i iuuat astrorum varios distinguere fluxus, | Etheris immensi normaque certa placet'; 34 elegiac distichs.

a2r Petrus de Lerma Burgensis: [Verse addressed to] the author of the commentary. Incipit: ‘Secula uunc(!) redeunt Alphonsi candida regis. | Descendunt alto sydera queque polo'; 20 elegiac distichs.

a3r Cirvelus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Ramirez Gusmanus and Alfonsus Osorius. Incipit: ‘Maiores nostros aurea dum illa secula tenuere viri percelebres . . .’

a3v Cirvelus, Petrus: [Preface.] ‘Petri Ciruelli Darocensis in astronomicum Sphere mundi opusculum prefatio.’ Incipit: ‘[H]eroicus ille diuine legis predicator deique apostolus eximius . . .’

a6v Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi. ‘Iohannis de sacro busto sphere mundi opusculum vna cum additionibus per opportune intersertis ac familiarissima textus expositione Petri C. D. felici sidere inchoat. Prohemium auctoris.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ixit Johannes tractatum de Sphera mundi quattuor capitulis distinguimus . . .’

a6v Cirvelus, Petrus: [Commentary.] ‘Glosa.’ Incipit: ‘Iste est tractatus De sphera mundi qnem(!) magister Iohannes de Sacro Busto ex libris Ptholemei . . .’ See Thorndike, The Sphere, 39 and 41.

b2v Alliaco, Petrus de: [Commentary.] ‘Reuerendissimi domini Petri de Aliaco cardinalis et episcopi Cameracensis doctorisque celebratissimi questio prima.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur primo vtrum diffinitio sphere sit bona quam dat auctor in textu . . .’ The Questions of d'Ailly alternate with the commentary of Cirvelo. See Thorndike, The Sphere, 38-40.

n4r [Colophon.]

n4v Cirvelus, Petrus: ‘In additiones immutationesque opusculi de sphera mundi nuper editas dialogus disputatorius.’ Incipit: ‘[M]agna profecto est quorumdam hominum vesania . . .’

n7v Gunsalus Egidius, Burgensis: ‘Carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Qui sacros latices optas haurire Minerue, | Qui cupis ex paruo discere multa libro'; 48 elegiac distichs.

n8r [Errata.] Incipit: ‘Ex ade prothoplausti inobediencia . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Guy Marchant, for Jean Petit, Feb. 1498. Folio.

Remarks: CIBN records variants in the colophon, and Marchant's device (Polain, Marques, no. 129) used in place of Petit's.

Collation

Collation: a–k⁸ l–m⁶ n⁸.

Illustrations: Woodcuts.

References

ISTC: ij00418000

Hain: HCR 14120 = 5363;

Goff: Goff J‑418;

BMC: BMC VIII 64;

Proctor: Pr 8015;

Others: CIBN J‑277; Hillard 1151; Rhodes 1033; Sheppard 6224.

LCN: 14840231

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