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Creator:
Angelus, Johannes, 1463–1512
Title(s):
Astrolabum planum in tabulis ascendens: : co[n]tinens qualibet hora atq[ue] minuto equationes domo[rum] celi: mora[m] nati in vtero matris cum quoda[m] tractatu natiuitatum vtili ac ornato: necnon horas inequales pro quolibet climate mundi.
Additional Title(s):
Astrolabium
Published/Created:
Impressum Venetijs : Per Iohanne[m] Emericu[m] de Spira alemanu[m]:, Anno salutis millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimo quarto: quinto Idus Iunij. [9 June 1494].
Physical Description:
[352] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0742
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Imprint from colophon; device with initials "L A" [i.e. Lucantonio Giunta] on title page.
Printer's device on final page.
A near reprint of the edition printed Augsburg: Erhardt Ratdolt, 1488.
Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.2 x 14.5 cm. 44 lines, plus headline, to a full page; area of text: 145 (153) x 107 mm. Includes decorative woodcut initials and printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords.
Contains astrological tables and over 400 woodcut illustrations including 80 miniatures, depicting the influence of the 12 signs of the zodiac on everyday life; features larger woodcuts of the individual constellations of the zodiac.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-e⁸ f-s⁴ t-y⁸ z¹² A-C⁸ D¹² (D11, D12 blank).
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00712000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-712
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 1101*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 1901
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 539
Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 3247
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0742: Imperfect: title leaf only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Emerich, Johann, active 1487–1506, printer.
Giunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457–1538, publisher.
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