Anno a Christi natiuitate 1525. Tertio Kal'. Apriles.
Call Number:
1976 +325
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Each map is printed across two leaves of plates. Maps 1 to 49 are numbered and have text on recto of initial leaf; final map is unnumbered, has no text on recto of initial leaf., Imprint information from colophon (leaf Q8 recto)., Index ([68] p., third group) bound at end, after maps., Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ 0-P⁶ Q⁸ a-e⁶ f⁴., and Variant order of binding: index precedes maps. Autograph of Giovanni Battista Francino.
Publisher:
Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat,
Subject (Name):
Francino, Giovanni Battista,--1631-1698--Autograph. and Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
Description:
In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
