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tie00114000

Text-inc Id:
tie00114000
Bod-inc Id:
E-037
Headings:
Euclides Elementa geometriae.
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r Euclides: Elementa geometriae [bks 1-13]. Translated by Adelardus Bathoniensis, revised by Campanus Novariensis. Incipit: ‘[P]unctus est cuius pars non est. Linea est longitudo sine latitudine . . .’ See E‑036.
  2. a2v Campanus [Novariensis: Commentary on Elementa.] Incipit: ‘Sciendum est autem quod preter has animi conceptiones . . . Esto data linea recta a.b. Volo super ipsam triangulum . . .’ Commentary follows each proof.
  3. q3r Euclides [pseudo-; Hypsicles]: Elementa geometria [bk 14]. Translated by Adelardus Bathoniensis, revised by Campanus Novariensis. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis perpendicularis a centro circuli ducta ad latus . . .’ See E‑036.
  4. r4r Euclides [pseudo-; Isidorus Milesius pseudo-]: Elementa geometriae [bk 15]. Translated by Adelardus Bathoniensis, revised by Campanus Novariensis. Incipit: ‘[I]ntra propositum cubum corpus habens quatuor bases . . .’ See E‑036.
Imprint:
Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea and Guilielmus de Papia, 13 May 1491? or 20 June 1491?. Folio. The date in the colophon reads: ‘Mcccclxxxxi, Vigeſimo. Calen. Iun.’
Collation:
a10 b–r8. Woodcut border on a2r.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ie00114000 GW 9429; HC *6694; Goff E‑114; BMC VII 1033; Pr 7130; BSB‑Ink E‑107; Rhodes 741; Sander 2606; Sheppard 5896; Charles Thomas-Stanford, Early Editions of Euclid's ‘Elements’, Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs, 20 (London, 1926), 21-2, no. 2. LCN: 14864979
Copies:
  1. E-037(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 311 × 216 × 33 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 203 mm. Some marginal annotations and additions in black ink. Some paragraph marks are supplied in black ink. ‘Euclides' on lower edge in black ink in an early hand. Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms (tinctures indistinct) drawn in the appropriate space in the woodcut border on a2r, in black ink. Purchased in Florence via D. A. Talboys, Oxford, for £1. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 8, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 446. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.1.