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HYGINUS Mythographus. Poeticon astronomicon. Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 22 January 1485.
Chancery 4o (204 x 154 mm). Collation: a-g8 (a1 blank, a2r diagram of the sphere, a3r text, g7v Sentinus' verses to the readers, g8r colophon, g8v blank). 54 leaves (of 56, lacking bifolium e2.7). 32 lines. Types: 8:91R (text), 3:91G (inscriptions to two cuts), 10:65G (inscription on diagram), 91Gk (a few words). White-on-black floriated 11-line and smaller woodcut capitals. Woodcut diagram and 43 (of 46) woodcuts of the constellations. Manuscript correction to caption of diagram on a1v, possibly by the printer. (Lacking 2 leaves as above, a few small marginal stains.) 19th-century blind-stamped morocco (worn, upper joint cracked).
Provenanc: a few contemporary marginal notes -- AW (elaborate pen-and-ink monogram on front free endleaf, within ribbon border with arcane inscription dated Oct. 20 1860) -- J. Eliot Hodgkin, bookplate.
Second illustrated edition, reprinting Ratdolt's 1482 edition, with the addition of the diagram of the terrestrial sphere. Ratdolt's blocks, attributed to Santritter, were the first printed illustrations of the allegorical figures of the constellations and planets. The text derives from Aratus, Phaenomena, or on a now-lost compendium based on Aratus.
HC 9063*; BMC V, 289 (IA. 20540); BSB-Ink H-460; CIBN H-335; Essling 286; Pr 4398; Redgrave 48; Sander 3473; Goff H-561.
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Provenanc: a few contemporary marginal notes -- AW (elaborate pen-and-ink monogram on front free endleaf, within ribbon border with arcane inscription dated Oct. 20 1860) -- J. Eliot Hodgkin, bookplate.
Second illustrated edition, reprinting Ratdolt's 1482 edition, with the addition of the diagram of the terrestrial sphere. Ratdolt's blocks, attributed to Santritter, were the first printed illustrations of the allegorical figures of the constellations and planets. The text derives from Aratus, Phaenomena, or on a now-lost compendium based on Aratus.
HC 9063*; BMC V, 289 (IA. 20540); BSB-Ink H-460; CIBN H-335; Essling 286; Pr 4398; Redgrave 48; Sander 3473; Goff H-561.