BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Binding of stamped calf on wooden boards from between 1482 and 1492. Originally the volume had 5 brass bosses on each board, 2 are now wanting from the front board. Remnants of brass clasps., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Presentation inscription: Hic liber est mei Jeronimj Monetarii de Feltkirchen, arciu[m] ast medicinae doctoris, quem mihi dono dedit Bernardus Walther, Ciuis Nure[n]berge, sua etate in mathematica peritissim[us], anno salut[is] 1492 in dieb[us] Julii., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: With: Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1474. Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Vniversis bonarum artium studiosis Ioannes de Monteregio .S.D.P. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1475., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r)., Translated from Arabic by Adelard of Bath; edited by Campano da Novara. While books I-XIII are Euclid's (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v.3, p. 519), Book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. by Hypsicles and book XV the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th century. For a discussion by B.L. van der Waerden of Euclid's sources see Enc. Brit., 15th ed., Micro. IV, p 589., With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt., and Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142, Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate, Brandenburg, Hilprand,--1442-1514--Presentation inscription to Reichskartause Buxheim, Campano, da Novara, d. 1296, Hypsicles, of Alexandria, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Presentation inscription from B. Walther, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, Reichskartause Buxheim Presentation inscription from Hilprand Brandenburg, and Walther, Bernhard,--1430-1504--Presention inscription to H. Münzer
Subject (Topic):
Geometry--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, and Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800
