Accession number
PML 160
Creator
Abū Maʻshar, -886.
Object title
Albumasar de magnis coniunctionibus : annorum revolutionibus ac eorum profectionibus, octo continens tractatus.
Published
Auguste Vindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, pridie kalendas. Aprilis .1489 [31 March 1489].
Description
[118] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf P8r: Opus Albumazaris de magnis co[n]iunctionib[us] explicit feliciter: magistri Iohannis Angeli viri peritissimi dilige[n]ti correctione: Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venetijs: nunc Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit no[m]iatissim[us] pridie kal[endas]. Aprilis .1489.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 9:130G, 8:90R, and 10:65G.
Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁶ P⁸: 118 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Johannes Angelus. Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 15.5 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: A1, replaced in facsimile.
Imprint from colophon, leaf P8r: Opus Albumazaris de magnis co[n]iunctionib[us] explicit feliciter: magistri Iohannis Angeli viri peritissimi dilige[n]ti correctione: Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venetijs: nunc Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit no[m]iatissim[us] pridie kal[endas]. Aprilis .1489.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 9:130G, 8:90R, and 10:65G.
Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁶ P⁸: 118 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Johannes Angelus. Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 15.5 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: A1, replaced in facsimile.
Binding
19th-century French dark brown morocco over paper boards (21.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Belz-Niedrée, with gilt arms of Seillière/Bibliothèque de Mello. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De magnis coniunctionibus
Provenance
Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding, Bibliothèque de Mello sale: Paris, 5 May 1890, lot 208; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 175, 8/5/96 and price code: wm/wm/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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