Accession number
PML 125702
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
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.
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: 19.2 x 14.5 cm.
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: 19.2 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
17th/18th-century(?) laced limp vellum (19.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports; recased and relined, with pairs of renewed pale-green silk ties on fore-edge.
Variant title
De magnis coniunctionibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricaiton not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early notes on the active dates of certain astronomers (leaf a1r).
Provenance
Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), bookplate (front pastedown), purchased in 1941 (maybe at Vollbehr duplicates sale by Gimbel Bros), donated to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.
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