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Imprint:
Venice: Bernardus Pictor de Augusta, Petrus Loslein de Langencen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta, 1476.
Comments
and Notes:
Uniform title from Goff.
Signatures: [1]8 [2]10 [3]16.
Title within decorative border.
Printed in black and red.
Blank pages [40] and [41] pasted together to support volvelle on p. [42]; blank pages [66] and [67] pasted together to support mounted pointer on p. [68].
White sections of eclipse woodcuts hand-colored yellow as usual.
Bookplates of Elector and Duke of Bavaria; bookplate on back paste down dated 1618.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
CE73 .R33 1476
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIR00093000-B
R-0093
Author:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Short
Title:
Calendarium
(1483)
Title:
In laudem operis Calendarij a Ioanne de monte regio Germanorum decoris nostre etatis astronomo[rum] principis editi Iacobi Sentini Ricinensis Carmina.
Imprint:
Venice: [Erhard Ratdolt, 13 Sept. 1483]
Comments
and Notes:
Title from incipit [leaf 1a recto], which introduces a prefatory poem by J. Sentius in praise of Regiomontanus' Calendarium.
Imprint from Goff.
Couplets by Santritter on leaf a1 verso give the imprint information: Hoc Augustensis ratdolt Germanus Erhardus dispositis signis vndiq[ue] pressit opus. … Anno S. 1483. Idus Septembri Uenetijs.
Signatures: a10 b-c8 chi2.
Final [4] pages consist of four leaves pasted together in pairs.
Printed in red and black.
Text printed in double columns; 42 lines per page.
Ornamental border on a1 recto; initials; volvelles.
Last line of last table (leaf C8 verso) reads: 1531 9 Aprilis 2 Aprilis 7.
Volvelles lacking in Dibner copy.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Contemporary full limp vellum binding made from manuscript waste; ties lacking. In modern portfolio.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
CE10 .R33 1483
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIR00095000-B
R-0095
Author:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Short
Title:
Tabulae directionum et profectionum
(1490)
Title:
Tabule directionu[m] profectionu[m]q[ue] famosissimi viri Magistri Ioannis Germani de Regiomonte in natiuitatibus multum vtiles.
Imprint:
Augsburg: [Erhard Ratdolt, 2 Jan. 1490]
Comments
and Notes:
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf S5 verso) reads: Opus tabularum directionum profectionumq[ue] pro reuerendissimo d[omi]no Ioanne archie[pisco]po Strigonien[sis] [etc.] per magistrum Ioannem de Regiomonte composita[rum] anno d[omi]ni 1467 explicit feliciter. Magistri Ioannis Angeli viri p[eri]tissimi dilige[n]ti correctione. Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt mira imprimendi arte, qua nuper Uenetijs nunc Auguste vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus. 4 nonas Ianuariij 1490.
Signatures: a-b8 c6 d-q8 r8 s6 chi8 2chi8.
Printer's device in red and black on leaf s6 recto.
Initials.
Imperfect: Lacks the "Tabella sinus recti" section (leaves [141] recto to [156] recto) which appears in some later copies of this edition.
Extensive contemporary ms. annotations and corrections made in ink.
Bookplate: Ex libris Jacobi P.R. Lyell.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Anonymous ms. note ([1] p.), describing this edition and copy, tipped in on front free endpaper.
Bound in limp paper boards; title inked on spine.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB11 .R33 1490
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIR00112000-B
R-0112
Author:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Short
Title:
Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolomei
(1496)
Title:
Epytoma Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei.
ISTC does not list this as being in the Dibner Library, but in the Burndy Library.
Woodcut title (leaf a1 recto).
The Epitoma was begun by Georg von Peurbach and finished by Regiomontanus; the editors for this edition were Giovanni Abiosi, Caspar Grossch and Stephanus Roemer.
Imprint from Goff.
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Cl. Ptolemei Alexandrini Astronomo[rum] principis [Is megalin sintaxin] id est In magnam constructione[m].
Colophon (leaf p7 verso) reads: Explicit Magne compositionis astronomicon epitoma .... Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Iohannis Ha[m]man de Landoia, dictus Hertzog, felicibus astris expletum. ... In hemispherio Ueneto, anno salutis 1496 currente, pridie calen[das] Septembris Uenetijs ...
"Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug. 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2" --Goff; this letter not present in Dibner library copy.
Signatures: a10 b-n8/6 o6 p8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 48-49 lines per page.
Final leaf (p8) is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy.
Initials; printer's device on leaf p7 verso.
Woodcut ill. of Ptolemy, Regiomontanus and an armillary sphere, inside an ornamental border, on leaf a3 verso; "The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic" --Heralds of science.
Leaf a3 is reversed and misbound before leaf a2.
Extensive ms. annotations with mathematical diagrams throughout, in an old hand.
Excised leaf from an old printed ecclesiastical text used as front free endpaper.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Old limp vellum binding; in modern green drop-back box.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB16 .R33 1496
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIR00111000-B
R-0111
0
0
0
Author:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Short
Title:
Calendarium
(1499)
Title:
Kalendarium magistri Joannis de Mo[n]teregio viri peritissimi.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [25] verso), which reads: Kalendarion viri peritissimi magistri Joha[n]nis de Monteregio explicit feliciter Erhardi Ratdolt viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprime[n]di arte: qua nup[er] Venetij: nunc Auguste Vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus. 1499.
"A page for page reprint of the 1496 issue."--Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) II, p. 389-390 (IA6777)
Leaves printed on both sides.
Printing, including the diagrams of eclipses, in black and red. Leaves [27]-[28] and [29]-[30] are pasted together: the first pair of leaves supports a moveable volvelle, while the second pair of leaves holds a brass pointer and mount.
Signatures: a10 b8 c12.
Leaf c8 (i.e. leaf [26]) is blank.
Initials.
Dibner Library copy imperfect: Volvelle (on leaves [27]-[28]) and brass pointer (on leaves [29]-[30]) are wanting.
Extensively annotated throughout in ink in an old hand; some annotations affected by closely cropped margins.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bound in old paper boards covered with [contemporary?] printed and rubricated leaves from an unidentified text; paste-down endpapers also made from old printed and rubricated text sheets; in archival portfolio for preservation.
