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til00185000
- Text-inc Id:
- til00185000
- Bod-inc Id:
- L-098
- Headings:
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Leupoldus, Dux Austriae
Compilatio de astrorum scientia.
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a2v Ratdolt, Erhardus: [Letter addressed to] Udalricus III von Frundsberg, Bishop of Trient. Incipit: ‘Hortatur me, obseruandissime presul, singularis tua inestimabilisque in me collata beneficentia . . .’
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a3r Leupoldus, Dux Austriae: Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Incipit: ‘[G]loriosus deus et sublimis qui omnia verbo creauit terram in celi medio prudenter collocauit . . .’ see Thorndike–Kibre 588.
- Imprint:
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Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Jan. 1489. 4°.
- Collation:
- a–n8 o6. 112 woodcuts: see Schramm.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: il00185000
HC *10042;
Goff L‑185;
BMC II 382;
Pr 1879;
BSB‑Ink L‑130; CIBN L‑154; Hillard 1222; Oates 958; Rhodes 1091; Sack, Freiburg, 2245; Schramm XXIII p. 25; Schreiber V 4493; Sheppard 1323.
LCN: 14450826
- Copies:
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L-098(1)
Copy
A note on the title-page, in the hand of George Cundall, shows that this item was formerly bound with Albumasar, Flores astrologiae, and Johannes Eszler, Speculum astrologorum.
Binding: Mottled calf with a single gold fillet; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Scar of an index tab on a2.
Size: 200 × 148 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 194 × 135 mm.
Some sixteenth-century marginal annotations.
Provenance: Stephanus [ ] (sixteenth century); name on h1r, cancelled in the same ink as that used for Cundall's name below: ‘Stephanus ραονισερ ’.
George Cundall (sixteenth century); name on a1r, and h1r-v: ‘Georgius Cundall'.
London, British Museum; duplicate stamp on a1r, dated 1787; manuscript note: ‘dupl'; T. A. Birrell suggests in a private letter of 23 Jan. 1999 that it was probably part of a tract volume broken up and put into the ‘duplicates room' without ever being incorporated into the collection; sale, A Catalogue of the Duplicate Books . . . of the British Museum (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 6 Mar. 1788), lot 1462.
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 948.
Purchased for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 13.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 1.12.
