Iohannis de Sacrobusto anglici uiri clarissimi Spera mundi feliciter incipit. [Gerardi Cremonensis uiri clarissimi Theorica planetaru[m] feliciter incipit].
Imprint:
Venice: Per Franciscu[m] Renner de Hailbrun, 1478.
Comments
and Notes:
Caption titles (from incipits, leaves a1 recto and e1 recto).
The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cremonensis who died 1187. Cf. Dict. of scientific biog., suppl., p. 189 for a summary of the evidence. Both works were first printed in 1472. Cf. The awakening interest in science during the first cent. of printing / Margaret Bingham Stillwell. no. 63, 70.
Imprint from colophon (leaf f10 verso).
Signatures: a-b8 c-d6 e-f10.
Leaves printed on both sides; 25-26 lines per page.
Incipits printed in red; initials; side-notes.
Leaf d6 verso is blank.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Old ms. annotations and diagrams in ink.
Modern vellum over paperboard binding; red sprinkled edges; title inked on spine: De Sacrobusto, Venetiis, 1478.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1478
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00402000-B
J-0402
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1485)
Title:
Nouiciis adolfscentibus [i.e. adolescentibus], ad astronomicam rempu. capessenda[m] aditu[m] i[m]petra[n]tib[us], per breui rectoq[ue] tramite a uulgari uestigio semoto, Ioannis de Sacro Busto Sphericum opusculu[m] Georgiiq[ue] Purbachii I[n] mot[us] plan...
Imprint:
Venice: [Erhard Ratdolt, before 4 Nov. 1485]
Comments
and Notes:
Caption title (from incipit, leaf 1<2> recto).
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf 7<10> verso) reads: Impressum est hoc opusculum mira arte & diligentia Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis. Anno Salutifere Incarnationis, 1485.
Signatures: 1-68 710.
Leaves printed on both sides; 32-33 lines per page.
Large woodcut of armillary sphere as frontispiece (leaf 1<1> verso); seven diagrams printed partly in colors; initials.
Imperfect copy: leaf 1<1> (frontispiece) wanting; replaced by photocopy from a Yale Univ. Library copy.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bookseller's ticket on front paste-down: C.E. Rappaport ... Rome.
Old autograph on front free endpaper, beneath a pen and ink sketch of a man's head: Di Bernedetto Lanci[ss?]i.
Old ms. annotations in ink.
Old limp vellum binding; ties wanting. In modern box.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1485
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00406000-B
J-0406
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1488)
Title:
Spaerae mundi co[m]pendicu[m] foeliciter inchoat.
Imprint:
Venice: [Johannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis, 31 Mar. 1488]
Caption title (leaf A2 recto).
Imprint from Goff.
Incipit (leaf A2 recto; printed in red) reads: Nouiciis adolescentibus: ad astronomica[m] remp. capessenda[m] aditum impetra[n]tibus, pro breui rectoq[ue] tramite a uulgari uestigio semoto: Ioha[n]nis de sacro busto Sphaericu[m] opusculu[m] una cu[m] additionib[us] no[n]nullis littera A sparsim ubi intersertae sint signatis Contraq[ue] cremonensia in planetar[um] theoricas delyramenta Ioha[n]nis de mo[n]te regio disputatio[n]es ta[m] accuratiss. q[uam] utiliss. Nec no[n] Georgii purbachii i[n] eoru[n]de[m] mot[us] planetar[um] accuratiss. theoricae: dicatum opus: utili serie contextum fausto sidere inchoat.
Colophon (leaf G6 recto) reads: Hoc quoq[ue] sideralis scientiae singulare opusculum mirifica illa arte nuper ingenio germanico in luce[m] prodita impressione uidelicet Prididie [i.e. Pridie] calen[das] Aprilis. Anno Salutis. M.cccc.lxxxviii. completu[m] est. Venetiis.
Signatures: A10 B8 2B12 C8 D10 (-D10) E-F8 G6.
Leaves printed on both sides; 33-35 lines per page.
Initials; publisher's device on colophon.
Several of the woodcut diagrams are printed in colors.
Leaf D3 is signed D4; leaf a1 recto and leaf G6 verso are blank.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Autograph on front free endpaper: Charles Singer.
Coat of arms (unidentified) painted at bottom of leaf A2 recto.
Bound in old blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; metal clasps; raised bands; re-backed. In modern box.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1488
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00407000-B
J-0407
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1489)
Title:
Iohannis de Sacro Busto Spericum opusculum vnacum vtilissimis figuris textu[m] declara[n]tibus.
Imprint:
Leipzig: Per Conradum Kachelouen, [1489]
Comments
and Notes:
Text in Latin, with some words and phrases in Greek.
Place and name of publisher from colophon (leaf d8 recto); date of publication from Goff.
Signatures: a-d8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 18-21 lines per page.
Spaces left for initials.
Final p. is blank.
Leaf d8 is misbound between leaves c8 and d1; a photocopy of leaf d7 verso and d8 recto from a Yale Univ. Library copy (variant printing) is inserted at end.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Extensively annotated with diagrams, in an old hand.
Modern half-vellum over brown paperboard binding; title inked on spine.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1489
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00408000-B
J-0408
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1490)
Title:
Sphaera mundi.
Imprint:
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct. 1490]
Comments
and Notes:
Listed in ISTC as being in the Burndy Library.
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Sphaerae mundi compendium foeliciter inchoat. Following that is a statement of the contents of this ed.: ... Ioa[n]nis de Sacro Busto Sphaericu[m] opusculu[m] una cu[m] addit[i]o[n]ibus no[n]nullis l[itte]ra A sparsim ubi i[n]tersertae sint signatis: Co[n]traq[ue] Cremone[n]sia i[n] planetar[um] theoricas delyramenta Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]teregio disputa[ti]o[n]es ... nec no[n] Georgii Purbachii i[n] eoru[n]de[m] motus planetar[um] accuratis. theoricae dicatu[m] opus ...
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf F7 verso) reads: Hoc quoq[ue] sideralis scientie singulare opusculum impressum est Venetiis mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiensis, Anno Salutis M.cccc.lxxxx. quarto Nonas Octobris.
"The woodcut[s] ... appear to be from the same blocks employed by De Sanctis in his 1488 edition"--BM 15th cent. The col. ill. are printed with blocks inked brownish yellow; one ill. is printed using an additional block inked red.
Initials; publisher's device in red on leaf F8 recto.
Signatures: a-f8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 41 lines per page.
Final p. is blank.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Beige paperboard binding; title inked on spine.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1490
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00409000-B
J-0409
0
0
0
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1495)
Title:
Textus De sphera Johannis de Sacrobosco : cum additione (quantum necessarium est) adiecta / nouo co[m]mentario nuper edito ad vtilitatem studentiu[m] philosophice Parisien[sis] Academie ; illustratus.
Imprint:
Paris: [Johannes Higman, for Wolfgang Hopyl, 12 Feb. 1494/1495, i.e. 1495]
Comments
and Notes:
Edited with a commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples.
Imprint from Goff.
The last paragraph of the commentary (leaf C10 verso) refers to the deposition of the relics of SS. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius on "qui[n]to Idus Nouembris" 1494 (usually dated 9 October 1494), indicating the year of printing should be reckoned "more gallicano."
The colophon transcribed in Copinger and in NUC Pre-1956, v. 513, p. 485 is not present in this variant printing.
Signatures: a8 b6 c10.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bookseller's ticket on front paste-down: C.E. Rappaport ... Roma.
Some old ms. annotations in ink.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1495
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00414000-B
J-0414
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1499)
Title:
Sphera mundi / cu[m] tribus commentis nuper editus vz. Cicchi Esculani, Francisci Capuani de Manfredonia, Iacobi Fabri Stapulensis.
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon (leaf o6 recto) reads: Impressum Venetiis per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaquam & summa diligentia correctum: ut legentibus patebit. Anno Cristi Siderum conditoris. MCDXCIX. Decimo Calendas Nouembres.
Signatures: a-c6 d8 e-z6 &6 [con]4; the variant printing lacks the final gathering ([con]4).
Leaves printed on both sides; the text of Theorica planetarum is in double columns.
Printer's device on colophon (leaf o6 recto).
Initials; guide-letters; leaf u2 is signed n2; register on leaf &6 recto.
Regiomontanus' Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta, which should be part of this edition according to the incipit on leaf a3 recto, is apparently not included.
"Theorice nouae planetarum [Georgii Purbachii] cum commento [Francisci Capuani]" has special half-title on p. [300] (leaf [con]4 verso), not present in variant printing.
The Dibner Library copy is the variant printing complete in [292] pages, as described in Goff and Copinger.
Leaf a1 has been detached and remounted on a strip of paper inserted at front of volume.
Bookplate: Burndy Library … gift of Bern Dibner.
Bookplate: Ex libris Pierre Duhem.
Old ms. annotations and diagrams in ink.
Text bordered throughout by brown ruled lines drawn in ink.
Old full sprinkled calf binding; gilt-ruled covers; gilt-tooled spine and spine labels; raised bands; red edges.
For variants see CIBN and Hillard. Copinger mentions a copy from a Hoepli catalogue (1893), apparently with 146 instead of 150 leaves.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
QB41 .S12 1499
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIJ00419000-B
J-0419
0
0
0
Author:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Short
Title:
Sphaera mundi
(1500)
Title:
Figura sphere / cu[m] glosis Georgii de Mo[n]teferrato ...
Imprint:
Venice: Impensis ... Georgii de Mo[n]teferrato ..., 1500, die. 28 Ianuarii.
Comments
and Notes:
Incipit: Ioannis de Sacrobosco ... Sphæra mu[n]di ... [l. 2]
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-E4 F6.
Includes index.
Errata: on l. 26.
Ms. notes and underlining throughout.
Dibner gift.
