Accession number
PML 366
Creator
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Object title
Epytoma Joa[n]nis de mo[n]te regio in almagestu[m] ptolomei.
Published
Venetiis : Johannis ha[m]man de Landoia, Anno salutis .1496. currente: Pridie Calen[das] Septembris [31 August 1496].
Description
[108] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from xylographic half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf p7v): Explicit Magne Composition Astronomicon Epitoma Johannis de Regiomonte. Impensis non minimis: curaq[ue] [et] emendatione non mediocri virorum prestantiu[m] Casparis Grossch: [et] Stephani Roemer. Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Johannis ha[m]man de Landoia: dictus hertzog: felicibus astris expletum. Anno a prima rerum etherearu[m] circuitione .8480. Sole in parte sextadecima virginis gradiente. In hemispherio Veneto: Anno salutis .1496. currente: Pridie Calen[das] Septembris Venetiis: Maximiliano Romanorum rege primo Faustissime imperante.
Printed in Hamman's types 2:103G, 5:70G, 7:127G, and 8:86G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸/⁶ o⁶ p⁸: 108 leaves, leaf p8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Begun by Georgius Purbachius.
Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2 (M.C. Davies, in The Library ser.6 18 (1996) p.205 note 41).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy does not have the 2-leaf letter inserted between leaves a1 and a2.
Colophon (leaf p7v): Explicit Magne Composition Astronomicon Epitoma Johannis de Regiomonte. Impensis non minimis: curaq[ue] [et] emendatione non mediocri virorum prestantiu[m] Casparis Grossch: [et] Stephani Roemer. Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Johannis ha[m]man de Landoia: dictus hertzog: felicibus astris expletum. Anno a prima rerum etherearu[m] circuitione .8480. Sole in parte sextadecima virginis gradiente. In hemispherio Veneto: Anno salutis .1496. currente: Pridie Calen[das] Septembris Venetiis: Maximiliano Romanorum rege primo Faustissime imperante.
Printed in Hamman's types 2:103G, 5:70G, 7:127G, and 8:86G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸/⁶ o⁶ p⁸: 108 leaves, leaf p8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Begun by Georgius Purbachius.
Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2 (M.C. Davies, in The Library ser.6 18 (1996) p.205 note 41).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy does not have the 2-leaf letter inserted between leaves a1 and a2.
Binding
Modern quarter black goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey, 1946. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Epytoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoratino: No rubrication required. Annotations: No substantial marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 205, 15/5/96 (rear pastedown, preserved from former binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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