Bod-Inc: P-292
Picus de Mirandula, Johannes
Compendium sententiarum praeclarissimarum adversus astrologiam.
Analysis of Content
a2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes [pseudo-]: Compendium sententiarum praeclarissimarum adversus astrologiam. Incipit: ‘Primo loco ponuntur sententiae siue auctoritates sacrae scripturae et expositiones . . . Primo quare dicantur astrologi et quot nominibus appellentur. Ex libro sancti Augustini de natura demonum . . .’ This work is not by Picus, but is a collection of sententiae against astrology from scripture, the church fathers, and canon and civil law, which also quotes Picus as an authority.
Imprint
Imprint: Modena: Dominicus Rocociolus, [c.1500]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a b8 c6.
References
ISTC: ip00639000
GW: GW VI col. 814;
Hain: HCR 5570;
Goff: Goff P‑639;
BMC: BMC VII 1065;
Proctor: Pr 7209;
Others: Sheppard 5975; not in Valenziani.
LCN: 14488888
Copies
Copy number: P-292(1)
On a8r the first word of l. 8, ‘ꝓnūciauit', is printed on a separate slip pasted in.
Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century gold-tooled green morocco, stamped with the initials ‘.I.B.' Gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 208 × 148 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 143 mm.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 3652. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. U 4.19.
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