tia00359000

Text-inc Id:

tia00359000

Bod-inc Id:

A-157

Headings:

Albumasar Introductorium in astronomiam.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r [Hermannus de Carinthia: Translator's prologue.] Incipit: ‘Apud iannos artium principiis que ars extrinseca . . .’ Charles H. Haskins, Studies in Medieval Science, 2nd edn (Cambridge, Mass., 1927), 45-7, where the incipit is: ‘Apud Latinos artium principiis quedam ars intrinseca . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 116; Thorndike I 649-50.
2. a2v Albumasar: Introductorium in astronomiam. [Translated by Hermannus de Carinthia.] Incipit: ‘Primum itaque que causa qua ratione . . .’ See Richard J. Lemay, Abū Ma`Shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth-Century: The Recovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy through Arabic Astrology, American Unversity of Beirut, Publication of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Oriental ser., 38 (Beirut, 1962), 9-132; Thorndike–Kibre 1119 and 116; Burnett, ‘Arabic', 126-7; Carmody 88-90 no. 13 1(b).

Imprint:

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 Feb. 1489. 4°.

Collation:

a–h⁸ i⁶. Woodcuts of planetary signs and signs of the zodiac. Three astrological diagrams.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00359000 GW 840; HC *612; Goff A‑359; BMC II 382; Pr 1880; BSB‑Ink A‑230; CIBN A‑194; Essling 524; Oates 959; Rhodes 47; Schramm XXIII p. 25 and pls 29-31, nos 122, 125-32, 134, 136-47; Schreiber V 3075; Sheppard 1324-7. LCN: 13957894

Copies:

1. A-157(1) First copy Bound with A‑154(2); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 184 × 141 mm. Occasional marginal notes in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. SHELFMARK: 4° A 31(2) Art. Seld.
2. A-157(2) Second copy Bound with:
   2. Johannes Ganivetus, Epistola astrologie defensiva. Lyons: Johannes Cleyn, 1508. Wanting e5. Title from a1r cut out and mounted. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 212 × 150 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 137 mm. Early marginal notes. Provenance: Jeorg Camer. John Selden (1584-1654); possibly the copy referred to in MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 39^r: ‘Introductorium in Astronomiam Albumasaris 4°'; not found in MS. Broxb. 84. 10. Presented in 1659. SHELFMARK: 4° A 32(1) Art. Seld.
3. A-157(3) Third copy Bound with:
   1. Hieronymus de Manfredis, Prognosticon anni M cccc lxxxi. [Verona: Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, 1481] (M‑062);
   3. Richardus de Bury, Philobiblon. Paris: Gaspard Philippe, for Jean Petit, 1500-1 (R‑066(1)). Wanting a8. a1 is supplied from another, shorter copy. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 210 × 153 × 21 mm. Size of leaf: 203 × 140 mm. Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a sixteenth-century English hand. Provenance: Acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 284. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: 4° O 7 [Jur.]; 4° E 9 Jur. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.15(2).
4. A-157(4) Fourth copy Bound with:
   1. Georg Henisch, Tabulae institutionum astronomicarum. Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1575;
   3. Alchabitius, Libellus isagogicus. Venice: Melchior Sessa, 1512;
   4. Johannes Stöffler, Ephemerides. [Venice: n. pr., c.1505]. Wanting a1. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf; on both covers triple fillets form a border; both boards detached. Size: 200 × 148 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 193 × 131 mm. Early marginal notes. Contents list on the front endleaf in the hand of Ashmole. Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. SHELFMARK: Ashm. 158(2).
5. A-157(5) Fifth copy Fragments. Corrected proofs of g1v and g7v only, with type area 149 × 105 mm. Printed on one side only of two conjugate leaves. Removed in 1889 from Auct. Q sub fen. 2.15, Robertus Holkot, Super sapientiam Salomonis. Reutlingen: Johann Otmar, 1489 (H‑132(1)). Subsequently placed in Antiq. d.X. 10, a box of miscellaneous fragments. Removed from this box in 1970. Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of proof-sheets. Marginal corrections in ink. Provenance of Auct. Q sub fen. 2.15: Ranshofen am Inn, Upper Austria, Augustinian convent of S. Pancratius. Purchased from William Ridler for £1. 1. 0; see Library Bills, 8 Jan. 1889. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Antiq. d.X.10. SHELFMARK: Vet. A1 a.4(12).