Accession number
PML 158
Creator
Abū Maʻshar, -886.
Object title
Flores Albumasaris.
Published
Auguste Veindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij [18 November 1488].
Description
[20] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c3v: Opus floru[m] Albumasaris explicit feliciter. Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venetijs: nu[n]c Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit nominatissim[us] .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 8:90R, and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-b⁸c⁴: 20 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
For the translator see F.J. Carmody, Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in translation (Berkeley, 1955), p.92 (CIBN).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf c3v: Opus floru[m] Albumasaris explicit feliciter. Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venetijs: nu[n]c Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit nominatissim[us] .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 8:90R, and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-b⁸c⁴: 20 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
For the translator see F.J. Carmody, Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in translation (Berkeley, 1955), p.92 (CIBN).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank).
Binding
20th-century English gold-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Bradstreet's for Morgan (unbound when purchased from Bennett). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Flores astrologiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 18th/19th-century bibliographical note below half-title (leaf a1r).
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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