Epytoma Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei
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Epytoma Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei
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- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476; Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Almagest; Abiosi, Giovanni, 15th cent; Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461; Grossch, Caspar, 15th cent; Roemer, Stephanus, 15th cent; Burndy Library, donor. DSI
- Publication date
- 1496
- Publisher
- [Venice : Johannes Hamman]
- Collection
- smithsonian
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- Latin
Woodcut title (leaf a1 recto)
The Epitoma was begun by Georg von Peurbach and finished by Regiomontanus; the editors for this edition were Giovanni Abiosi, Caspar Grossch and Stephanus Roemer
Imprint from Goff
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Cl. Ptolemei Alexandrini Astronomo[rum] principis [Is megalin sintaxin] id est In magnam constructione[m]
Colophon (leaf p7 verso) reads: Explicit Magne compositionis astronomicon epitoma .... Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Iohannis Ha[m]man de Landoia, dictus Hertzog, felicibus astris expletum. ... In hemispherio Ueneto, anno salutis 1496 currente, pridie calen[das] Septembris Uenetijs ..
"Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug. 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2" --Goff; this letter not present in Dibner library copy
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸/⁶ o⁶ p⁸
Leaves printed on both sides; 48-49 lines per page
Final leaf (p8) is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy
Initials; printer's device on leaf p7 verso
Woodcut ill. of Ptolemy, Regiomontanus and an armillary sphere, inside an ornamental border, on leaf a3 verso; "The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic" --Heralds of science
Goff
Hain-Copinger
Polain
Proctor
Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)
Leaf a3 is reversed and misbound before leaf a2
Extensive ms. annotations with mathematical diagrams throughout, in an old hand
Excised leaf from an old printed ecclesiastical text used as front free endpaper
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner
Old limp vellum binding; in modern green drop-back box
The Epitoma was begun by Georg von Peurbach and finished by Regiomontanus; the editors for this edition were Giovanni Abiosi, Caspar Grossch and Stephanus Roemer
Imprint from Goff
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Cl. Ptolemei Alexandrini Astronomo[rum] principis [Is megalin sintaxin] id est In magnam constructione[m]
Colophon (leaf p7 verso) reads: Explicit Magne compositionis astronomicon epitoma .... Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Iohannis Ha[m]man de Landoia, dictus Hertzog, felicibus astris expletum. ... In hemispherio Ueneto, anno salutis 1496 currente, pridie calen[das] Septembris Uenetijs ..
"Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug. 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2" --Goff; this letter not present in Dibner library copy
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸/⁶ o⁶ p⁸
Leaves printed on both sides; 48-49 lines per page
Final leaf (p8) is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy
Initials; printer's device on leaf p7 verso
Woodcut ill. of Ptolemy, Regiomontanus and an armillary sphere, inside an ornamental border, on leaf a3 verso; "The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic" --Heralds of science
Goff
Hain-Copinger
Polain
Proctor
Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)
Leaf a3 is reversed and misbound before leaf a2
Extensive ms. annotations with mathematical diagrams throughout, in an old hand
Excised leaf from an old printed ecclesiastical text used as front free endpaper
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner
Old limp vellum binding; in modern green drop-back box
- Addeddate
- 2012-06-14 17:08:14
- Call number
- 39088007520869
- Call-number
- 39088007520869
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- EpytomaIoannisd00Regi
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t36125z63
- Identifier-bib
- 39088007520869
- Lccn
- 48040724
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL25513483M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL16892506W
- Pages
- 222
- Possible copyright status
- Not in copyright
- Ppi
- 450
- Year
- 1496
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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