Explanatio super cosmographia Ptolemei, 1497 March 20-1506 May 25 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:tables (documents)

Physical Description:[6], [79], [4] leaves, bound ; 33 cm (fol.)

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:45902478

Notes:

Title from Butler

Place of production from colophon on recto of leaf [77]: "Hoc exiguu[m] opus edidit donus Bernardus Albi[n]gaunensis, monachus ceruarie professus: existens in eremitario Diue Marie Magdalene: apud Monte[m] Rubru[m]: a Genue Ligurie regionis ..."

First line of text is author's dedication to Bernardo Salvago of Genoa (verso of leaf [1])

Text in black and red; large and small ornamental capitals in black and gold; part of text in two columns, with numerous elaborate astronomical charts, tables, and diagrams in red, black, and gold; marginal notes and alphabetical and numerical references in red and black

Contemporary foliations in upper and lower corners of rectos are irregular; some leaves may be misbound or missing

Early 19th-century Italian tree calf, with gold-stamped spine ornaments; in newer dark brown leather box by W. Pratt, elaborately tooled in blind and gold; center panel of lozenges within concentric rectangular borders; gold-stamped corner fleurons; gold-stamped spine title

Bound with [6] blank leaves at front of text, and [4] blank leaves at end

Memorial bookplate of Edward E. Ayer and the Henry Stevens Ptolemy Collection: "Begun in 1848 and since his death in 1886 continued by his son Henry Newton Stevens until acquired in 1898 by Edward E. Ayer."

Bookplate in red and black; woodcut vignette; illustrated woodcut compartmentalized borders in the Holbein style, containing corner monograms of Cl[audius] Pt[olemy]y and three previous owners of ms., and binder's name, "W. Pratt"; added ms. title: "Bernardus Albingavensis. Explanatio super cosmographer Ptolemei 1497-1502."

From the Visconti-Pallavicini collection; cf. leaf [4] at end; also De Ricci

Acquired by Edward E. Ayer on May 15, 1911, possibly from Leo Olschki or Anton Hiersemann; cf De Ricci

Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Language Notes:In Latin, with some parts in Italian