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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:
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.
