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Organum Vranicum. / Sebastianus Munsterus. Habes in hoc libro, amice lector, explicatas theoricas omnium planetaru[m], atq[ue] eorunde[m] uarios, singulos & quotidianos ad annos usq[ue] c & ultrà expressos motus, lunae quoq[ue] in lumine crescentis, senesce[n]tis & per eclipsim deficientis, & item solis deliquiu[m] patientis, omne[m] uarietate[m]: quibus omnibus co[m]modi adiecti sunt canones.

Accession number
PML 195039.2
Creator
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.
Published
Basileae : Apud Henricum Petrum, mense Martio, anno 1536.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., and on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2008.
Notes
Marginal notes and two inserted leaves of astronomical calculations by Nicolaus Regensburger.
"Organa planetarum" (with section title): p. [3]-[38] following p. 70.
Signatures: [dagger]⁴a-i⁴A-C⁴D⁶.
Leaf i4 (p. [1]-[2] following p. 70) is blank.
Illustrated t.p.; initials (some historiated); printer's device (no. 73 in Heitz, P. Basler Büchermarken) on final page.
The astronomical woodcuts are by Konrad Schnitt, cf. Frank Hieronymus, 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988 (1997), 181.
Volvelles.
Description
[8], 70, [38] p. : ill. ; 30 cm (fol. in 4s)
Provenance
From the library of James Stevens-Cox.
Binding
Contemporary paneled calf, title on fore-edge.
Classification
Department