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Summa astrologiae iudicialis de accidentibus mundi quae anglicana uulgo nuncupatur Ioannis eshcuidi [i.e. Eschuidi] niri [i.e. uiri] anglici peritissimi scie[n]tiae astrologiae foelici sidere inchoat.

Accession number
PML 20700
Creator
Eschuid, Johannes, active 1350.
Object title

Summa astrologiae iudicialis de accidentibus mundi quae anglicana uulgo nuncupatur Ioannis eshcuidi [i.e. Eschuidi] niri [i.e. uiri] anglici peritissimi scie[n]tiae astrologiae foelici sidere inchoat.

Published

Venetiis : Johannis Lucilii Sanctiter [sic] ... Impensis ... Fra[n]cisci Bolani , Anno salutis .1489. nonis Julii [7 July 1489].

Description

[2], 306 [i.e. 218, 1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), map ; 31 cm

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf D7v): "Su[m]mae astrologiae iudicialis accidentibus mu[n]di anglicana vulgo nuncupatur. Iohannis eschuid viri anglici eiusdem scientiae astrologiae peritissim. Finis hic imponitur faustus. Opera quoq[ue] & cura diligenti qua fieri potuit. Iohannis lucilii. Sanctiter [sic] helbro[n]nensis germani. Impensis quoq[ue] non minimis. Generosi viri. Fra[n]cisci bolani eloquentissimi olim viri Candiani patritii veneti. Anno salutis .1489. nonis Iulii impressione completum est Venetiis."
Printed in Santritter's types 5:82R, 6:60G, and 7:55G.
Collation: [1²]; a-i⁸ k⁴ l⁶ m⁸ n⁸(+n5) o-z & A-D⁸: 221 leaves, leaf n5 is a signed singleton.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Many errors in foliation.
Woodcut map, initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 18.5 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Summa astrologiae iudicialis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where necessary). Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal note in text (leaf b4r).
Provenance
Alfred Heales (1827-1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1900; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: PN (rear pastedown, preserved from former binding), purchased Nov. 1900; his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3096 purchased by Quaritch for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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Department