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PROBUS, Marcus Valerius. Hoc in volumine haec continentur. M. Val. Probus de notis Roma. ex codice manuscripto castigatior...Ven. Beda de computo per gestum digitorum . Idem de loquela. Idem de ratione vnciarum...Haec omnia nunc primum edita. Venice: Joannes Tacuinus, February 1525.
Small 4°. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a sybil standing in an arch on a4v, with the final blank. (Title somewhat stained.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of Bede's Computus, an important scientific treatise on the art and science of telling time, a necessary function for the scattered monastic communities in which the correct time for the cycle of psalms and prayers through ordained days and years was essential. The other treatises in the volume consist mainly of lists of abbreviations in Roman official and legal writings, Roman religious rites and explanations of weights and measures. Sander 5902.
Small 4°. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a sybil standing in an arch on a4v, with the final blank. (Title somewhat stained.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of Bede's Computus, an important scientific treatise on the art and science of telling time, a necessary function for the scattered monastic communities in which the correct time for the cycle of psalms and prayers through ordained days and years was essential. The other treatises in the volume consist mainly of lists of abbreviations in Roman official and legal writings, Roman religious rites and explanations of weights and measures. Sander 5902.