tir00094000

Text-inc Id:

tir00094000

Bod-inc Id:

R-034

Headings:

Regiomontanus, Johannes Calendarium.

Analysis of content:

1. [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.
2. [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.
3. [a2r] ‘Tabula regionum'.
4. [a3r] [Regiomontanus, Johannes: Calendarium.] As R‑033. Each month is preceded by a table containing concordances(?) for the years 1475, 1494, and 1513.
5. [b4v] [Diagrams showing the eclipse of the moon and the sun in the period running from 1483 to 1530.]
6. [b8v] ‘De aureo numero'.
7. [b8v] ‘De cyclo solari et littera dominicali'.
8. [b8v] ‘De inditione'.
9. [c1r] ‘De interuallo et festis mobilibus'.
10. [c1v] ‘Tabula festorum mobilium'.
11. [c2r] ‘De coniunctionibus ac oppositionibus luminarium'.
12. [c3r] ‘De eclipsibus luminarium'.
13. [c3r] ‘De loco solis vero'.
14. [c3v] ‘Tabula solis'.
15. [c3v] ‘De loco lune vero'.
16. [c4r] ‘Tabula radicum lune'.
17. [c4r] [On bloodletting.]
18. [c4v] ‘De magnitudine diei'.
19. [c5r] ‘Tabula quantitatis dierum'.
20. [c6r] ‘De horologio horizontali'.
21. [c6v] ‘De noticia horarum equinoctialium'.
22. [c7r] ‘De horis temporalibus'.
23. [c7v] [De ascendente.]
24. [c8r] [De Pascha.]
25. [c8v] ‘[Tabula] dies paschalis'.
26. [d1r] ‘Instrumentum horarum inequalium'.
27. [d1v] ‘Instrumentum veri motus lune'.
28. [d2r] ‘Quadrans horologii horizontis(!)'.
29. [d2v] ‘Quadratum horarium generale'.

Imprint:

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482. 4°.

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b c⁸ d²]. Woodcut borders, initials, and diagrams.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00094000 HC *13777; Goff R‑94; BMC V 286; Pr 4386; 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:

1. R-034(1) Copy 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.