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tia01171000

Text-inc Id:
tia01171000
Bod-inc Id:
A-476
Headings:
Astrolabii Canones
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r [Ketenensis, Robertus]: ‘In opus et instrumentum astronomicum Astrolabium uel Planispherium appellatum Canones.’ Incipit: ‘[S]phera solida que et astrolabium sphericum appellatur, cum sit astronomice scientie instrumentum excellentius . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1525; L. Thorndike, ‘Robertus Angelus', Isis, 34 (1942-3). According to ISTC this is identical with the text printed as Robertus Anglicus, De astrolabio canones. Perugia: [Petrus Petri de Colonia, Fridericus Eber, and Johannes Conradi, c.1477-9]: see Goff R‑203 and Rhodes 1512.
  2. b8r ‘Partis secunde huius de mensurationibus rerum tractatulus.’ Incipit: ‘[M]ensurationum genera declarare . . .’
Imprint:
[Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, c.1497-8]. 4°. Polain dates [c.1494].
Collation:
a–c8 d6. 62 woodcut diagrams.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01171000 GW 2759; H *1898; Goff A‑1171; BMC V 458; Pr 5169; Polain 340; Rhodes 179; Sander 649; Sheppard 4267. LCN: 13979003
Copies:
  1. A-476(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 223 × 155 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 213 × 144 mm. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; on a1r: ‘Inc. Dupl. 5636' and note dated 3.3.[18]58; on d6v no. 209. Purchased from the Fidelis Butsch catalogue (1858) no. 209 for £1. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 6, where it is recorded as Augsburg: Ratdolt, 1490. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.7.