Lucii Bellantii Senensis physici Liber de astrologica veritate ; et, In Disputationes Ioannis Pici adversus astrologos responsiones.

Accession number:

PML 30781

Author:

Bellanti, Lucio, -1499.

Published:

Florentie : Gherardus de Haerlem, die .viiii. Maii .M.cccc.lxxxxviii [9 May 1498, i.e. 1499?].

Description:

[130] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1934.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Colophon (leaf u6v): Lucii Bellantii civis Senensis Artium & Medicinae doctoris, respo[n]siones ad Iohannis Pici. comitis obiectiones quas adversus Astrologicam veritatem qua[m]vis no[n] ediderit co[m]mentatus. Feliciter finiunt. Diligenter impressit. Gherardus de Haerlem. Florentie Die .viiii. Maii .M.cccc.lxxxxviii.
Printed in Gerardus's type 1:101R.
For discussion of the date (after Savonarola's execution, 28 May 1498), see C.F. Bühler, "Bibliographical Notes," PBSA 60.1 (1966), p. 99.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-i⁶ K⁶ l-t⁶ u⁸; [2]⁴: 130 leaves, leaves [2]/2-4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Second title occupies gatherings q-u.
Space left for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/2 (blank), as indicated by contemporary foliation.

Binding:

Contemporary tacketed parchement envelope (27.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 2 supports. Plain endbands. 1 parchement tie.

Variant Title:

Liber de astrologica veritate

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text, in 2 different hands. Contemporary foliation, indicating that quire [2] is 4 leaves and missing leaf 2.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Sept. 1934.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

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Department:

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