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Claudii Ptolemaei cosmographiae liber primus.

Accession number
PML 26737
Creator
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Object title

Claudii Ptolemaei cosmographiae liber primus.

Published

Vicenciae accuratiffime impressa : ab Hermano leuilapide Coloniensi, M. CCCC. LXXV. IDI. SEPT. [13 September 1475]

Description

[144] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm. (folio)

Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf 2a3r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G10v: En tibi cosmographia Ptolemaei ab Hermano leuilapide Coloniensi Vicenciae accuratiffime impressa. Benedicto Trivisano: & Angelo Michaele praesidibus. M. CCCC. LXXV. IDI. SEPT.
Printed in Lichtenstein's type 1:102R.
Signatures: 2a¹⁰ 2b⁸ a¹⁰ b-g⁸ h¹⁰ A-F⁸ G¹⁰: 144 leaves, leaf aa1 blank. Leaf 2b7 blank, frequently cut away.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated into Latin by Jacobus Angelus, and edited by Angelus Vadius and Barnabas Picardus.
1 column, 39 lines. Capital spaces without guide letters.
For variants see Polain.
PML copy leaf dimensions:
Binding
16th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (31.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps.
Variant title
Cosmographia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript title (leaf aa1r). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Clementis Braun (d. 1826), Augustinian canon at Polling and Rothenbuch, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., July 1929.
Classification
Century
Department