tip01081000

Text-inc Id:

tip01081000

Bod-inc Id:

P-526

Headings:

Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli, ed. Angelus Vadius and Barnabas Picardus Vicentinus).

Analysis of content:

1. aa2r Angeli [de Scarperia], Jacobus: [Letter addressed] to Alexander V, Pont. Max. Incipit:`[A]d tempora Claudii Ptolemae iuiri(!) Alexandrini . . .’
2. aa3r Ptolemaeus [Alexandrinus], Claudius: Geographia. ‘Ptolemaei Cosmographiae liber primus in quo differt Cosmographia a Chorographia'. Translated from the Greek by Jacobus Angeli. Edited by Angelus Vadius and Barnabas Picardus. Incipit: ‘[C]osmographia designatrix imitatio est totius cogniti orbis cum his quae fere uniuersaliter . . .’ See J. Fischer, Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas graecus 82 (Leipzig, 1932), I (prodromus), 205-8; Firenze e la scoperta dell'America: Umanesimo e geografia nel ’400 Fiorentino, ed. Sebastiano Gentile (Florence, 1992), 99 no. 49. For Emanuel Chrysoloras' initiation of the translation c.1403; see R. Weiss, ‘Jacobo Angelo da Scarperia (c.1360-1410)', in Medioevo e Rinascimento: Studi in onore di Bruno Nardi (Florence, 1955), II 811, 819.
3. G5v Vadius, Angelus and Picardus, Barnabas: [Address to the reader]. Firenze e la scoperta, ed. Gentile, 99 no. 49.

Imprint:

Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 13 Sept. 1475. Folio.

Collation:

aa¹⁰ bb⁶⁺¹ a¹⁰ b–g⁸ h¹⁰ A–F⁸ G¹⁰. Woodcut diagrams on bb5v, bb6v, and bb7v. There is no diagram at the beginning of Book VII; see Firenze e la scoperta, 99 no. 49.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip01081000 HC 13536; Goff P‑1081; BMC VII 1035; Pr 7139; BSB‑Ink P‑856; Eames 66469; Firenze e la scoperta, 99 no. 49; Rhodes 1478; Sander 5973; Sheppard 5900. LCN: 14064804

Copies:

1. P-526(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Johannes Regiomontanus, Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. [Nuremberg: Johann Müller, of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), c.1475] (R‑038);
   3. Georgius Purbachius, Theoricae novae planetarum. [Nuremberg: Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), c.1474] (P‑543). Wanting the blank leaf aa1. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; the spine gold-tooled; red-edged leaves. Size: 283 × 205 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 277 × 188 mm. ‘389' in ink on front pastedown. A few numerical notes on the first diagram; book numbers in the upper right-hand corner of every leaf in a contemporary hand. Manuscript contents list by Gerard Meerman on aa2v. Three- to six-line initials supplied in red. Provenance: Gerard Meerman (1722-1771); acquired after 1747 (ex informatione Jos van Heel); manuscript catalogue (MMW S 145 IV), fol. 75^v. Johan Meerman (1753-1815); inscription on aa2r: ‘Meerman Cat. vol. 3 no. 8.'; purchased at his sale, vol. III/1, p. 1, lot 8, for Fl. 100; see Books Purchased . . . at the Sale of M. Meerman, p. 20, with auction number on label at the head of the spine. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.19(1).