Sphaera mundi
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sphaera mundi
Classmark: BC Incunabula/HOL
Creator(s): Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (fl. 1230)
Additional creator(s): Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476) (Other); Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461) (Other); Guglielmo da Trino (1486-1494) (Printer); Schwarz, Simon Magister (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Regiomontanus, Johannes; Peurbach, Georg von; Guglielmo; Schwarz, Simon; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Magistrum Gullielmum de Tridino de Monteferrato; Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis
Publication city: Impressum est Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno Salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. die.xiiii.Ianuarii. [14 January 1491]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [48] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56538
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007755419705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-f⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on f7v reads: Hoc quoq[ue] sideralis scientie singulare opusculum Impressum est Venetiis per Magistrum Gullielmum de Tridino de Monteferrato Anno Salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. die.xiiii.Ianuarii.
Full-page woodcut on a1v showing "Astronomia" enthroned between "Vrania musa celestis" and "Ptolemaeus princeps astronomor".
Ornamental woodcut initials with three larger than the rest.
Woodcut astronomical and astrological diagrams throughout, 97 in total.
Some woodcut diagrams are printed in colour.
A page-for-page reprint of the 1490 edition printed by Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus using the same woodcut blocks. Here the colour printing is less well executed, using yellowish-brown ink, with the second colour being a dull orange.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00410000.
Indexed in: Goff J-410.
Features
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Binding of full parchment, probably nineteenth-century. Written in black ink manuscript on the upper cover are the words: Hoc Opusculum cum additio[n]ibus G. Purbachii et Joa[n]is de Monteregio Impressum est Anno 1491. Joannes de Sacro Bosco de Sphaera. (John Holywood of Halifax). Size: 208 x 158mm. Leaf size: 207 x 154mm.
Provenance
In ink manuscript beneath the title on the title page: M[agister] Simon Schwarz... vendicat.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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