Bod-Inc: R-034
Regiomontanus, Johannes
Calendarium.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Sentinus, Jacobus: ‘In laudem operis huius praeclari a Johanne de Monte Regio editi Germanorum decore et nostrae aetatis astronomorum principe . . . Carmina'. Incipit: ‘Hesperides hortum vatum te | nuisse puellas'; 21 elegiac distichs.
[a1v] Santritter, Johannes Lucilius: [Verse colophon addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Cui dedit ingenium diuina potentia et artes | Qui bene daedalias solus in orbe tenet'; 3 elegiac distichs and one further line with the date.
[a2r] ‘Tabula regionum'.
[a3r] [Regiomontanus, Johannes: Calendarium.] As R‑033. Each month is preceded by a table containing concordances(?) for the years 1475, 1494, and 1513.
[b4v] [Diagrams showing the eclipse of the moon and the sun in the period running from 1483 to 1530.]
[b8v] ‘De aureo numero'.
[b8v] ‘De cyclo solari et littera dominicali'.
[b8v] ‘De inditione'.
[c1r] ‘De interuallo et festis mobilibus'.
[c1v] ‘Tabula festorum mobilium'.
[c2r] ‘De coniunctionibus ac oppositionibus luminarium'.
[c3r] ‘De eclipsibus luminarium'.
[c3r] ‘De loco solis vero'.
[c3v] ‘Tabula solis'.
[c3v] ‘De loco lune vero'.
[c4r] ‘Tabula radicum lune'.
[c4r] [On bloodletting.]
[c4v] ‘De magnitudine diei'.
[c5r] ‘Tabula quantitatis dierum'.
[c6r] ‘De horologio horizontali'.
[c6v] ‘De noticia horarum equinoctialium'.
[c7r] ‘De horis temporalibus'.
[c7v] [De ascendente.]
[c8r] [De Pascha.]
[c8v] ‘[Tabula] dies paschalis'.
[d1r] ‘Instrumentum horarum inequalium'.
[d1v] ‘Instrumentum veri motus lune'.
[d2r] ‘Quadrans horologii horizontis(!)'.
[d2v] ‘Quadratum horarium generale'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b c8 d2].
Illustrations: Woodcut borders, initials, and diagrams.
References
ISTC: ir00094000
Hain: HC *13777;
Goff: Goff R‑94;
BMC: BMC V 286;
Proctor: Pr 4386;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑70; Essling 250; Redgrave 29; Rhodes 1505; Sander 6403; Sheppard 3669. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmology, GC 106.
LCN: 14062570
Copies
Copy number: R-034(1)
Wanting [d2].
With the corrected incipit; see BMC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, probably bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 205 × 156 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 146 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and providing corrections and additions to the text, in an early hand. ‘3' in brown ink in the upper right-hand corner of [a1r]. ‘327' and ‘276' in pencil on [c8v], the former possibly a Munich duplicate number.
Provenance: Probably a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; see pencil number above. Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 91.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.18.
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