tij00407000

Text-inc Id:

tij00407000

Bod-inc Id:

J-183

Headings:

Johannes de Sacro Bosco Sphaera mundi.

Analysis of content:

1. A1v [Woodcut: Astronomia, Urania, Ptolomaeus.]
2. A2r Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi. ‘Nouiciis adolescentibus ad astronomicam rempublicam capessendam aditum impetrantibus . . . utili serie contextum fausto sidere inchoat.’ See J‑179.
3. C1r Regiomontanus, Johannes: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] all scholars. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam emisimus indicem operum quae librariis nostris . . .’
4. C2v Regiomontanus, Johannes: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. Incipit: ‘Viennensis. V. Cracouiensis. C. [S]i quis forte roget quamobrem potissimum ad hanc aedem diui Petri apostoli . . .’ See J‑181.
5. D5r Purbachius, Georgius: Theoricae novae planetarum. ‘De Sole.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ol habet tres orbes a se inuicem omniquaque diuisos . . .’ See J‑181.
6. G6r ‘Carmina in impressorum huius opusculi laudem.’ Incipit: ‘Vranie quantum quantum debere fatentur | Cuncta canopeo, cognitaque astra uiro'; 3 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Venice: Johannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis, 31 Mar. 1488. 4°.

Collation:

A¹⁰ B⁸ BB¹² C⁸ D⁸⁺¹ E–F⁸ G⁶. Woodcuts and woodcut initials. Some of the woodcuts are printed in yellow and red.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00407000 HC *14112; Goff J‑407; BMC V 462; Pr 5183; BSB‑Ink I‑505; CIBN J‑272; Essling 260; Oates 2030; Sander 6663; Sheppard 4281-2. LCN: 14029306

Copies:

1. J-183(1) First copy Bound with:
   1. Johannes Jovianus Pontanus, De rebus coelestibus. Basel: [n.pr.], 1530;
   2. Jacobus Bracellus, [De bello hispaniensi.] Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1530;
   3. Janus Lacinius Calabrus, Praeciosa artis chymiae collectanea de philosophorum lapide. Nuremberg: Gabriel Hain, 1554;
   4. Leonhard Fuchs, Libri iiii difficilium aliquot quaestionum explicationes continentes . . . Basel: Robert Winter, 1540;
   5. Johannes Regiomontanus, Calendarium. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 21 Mar. 1489 (R‑036);
   7. Johannes Hispalensis, Epitomae totius astrologiae. Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg and Ulrich Neuber, 1548;
   8. Plutarchus, De virtute et vitio. [Greek.] Paris: Gilles de Gourmont, 1519;
   9. Theodorus Gaza, Liber quartus et ultimus de contructione. Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1516;
   10. Richardus Crocus, Introductiones in rudimenta graeca. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1520. Binding: Seventeenth-century English blind-tooled calf, rebacked; triple fillets form a frame with a lozenge-shaped floral tool as a centre-piece. The original spine is pasted onto the front pastedown. Size: 190 × 129 × 94 mm. Size of leaf: 182 × 122 mm. A few marginal notes, extracting key words, in an early humanist hand. Manuscript list of contents on the front endleaf in Ashmole's hand. Provenance: William Averrelle (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r of item 5: ‘Wylliam Averrelles Booke' written over a different name, possibly that of William Bedwell(?) (1563-1632). William Lilly (1602-1681); inscription on a1r of item 1. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. SHELFMARK: Ashm. 134(6).
2. J-183(2) Second copy Bound with A‑492; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 207 × 135 mm. Wanting leaves D4-8 and F5. The text of G6 cut out and mounted. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.3(2).