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MANILIUS, Marcus. Astronomicon. -- ARATUS. Phaenomena. Translated by Germanicus Caesar. Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, "20 March" 1474.
Chancery 2° (270 x 185mm). Collation: [110 2-38 44 5-810.8 9-108 116] (1/1 blank, 1/2r Astronomicon, 4/3v-4 blank, 5/1 part II, 8/8r headings for Aratus, 8/8v blank, 9/1r Aratus, 11/6v colophon). 82 (of 88, lacking 1/3-7 and without blank 1/1 and 4/4) leaves. 35 lines. Type: 1:98R. 3-5-line initials alternating in red and blue, later three-quarter border of flowers and foliate vines in gold and colours opening the text. (Tears into a few leaves into text, repaired without loss, washed.) Modern brown morocco, g.e., by C. Hanson at the National Library of Wales. Provenance: [Duke of Devonshire, duplicate sold 1815; Richard Heber (notes on flyleaf removed in rebinding)].
Second edition. Although possibly preceded by the Nuremberg edition of ca. 1472-4, the Bologna edition was printed from an independent exemplar. The identity of the author and the dating of his work remains uncertain, but it was begun in the early years of the first century A.D. and has strong connections to Hermetic astrological writings. The Astronomicon is joined here by the FIRST EDITION of the Aratea. It was the main source of Greek astronomy during the Middle Ages. Most of the pages of the Aratea have been left blank, to be filled in with zodiacal and astronomical drawings, for which a table is printed on fo.66r. HCR 10707; BMC VI, 805 (IB. 28583-a-b); Goff M-203; Polain(B) 2589; IGI 6126.
Chancery 2° (270 x 185mm). Collation: [110 2-38 44 5-810.8 9-108 116] (1/1 blank, 1/2r Astronomicon, 4/3v-4 blank, 5/1 part II, 8/8r headings for Aratus, 8/8v blank, 9/1r Aratus, 11/6v colophon). 82 (of 88, lacking 1/3-7 and without blank 1/1 and 4/4) leaves. 35 lines. Type: 1:98R. 3-5-line initials alternating in red and blue, later three-quarter border of flowers and foliate vines in gold and colours opening the text. (Tears into a few leaves into text, repaired without loss, washed.) Modern brown morocco, g.e., by C. Hanson at the National Library of Wales. Provenance: [Duke of Devonshire, duplicate sold 1815; Richard Heber (notes on flyleaf removed in rebinding)].
Second edition. Although possibly preceded by the Nuremberg edition of ca. 1472-4, the Bologna edition was printed from an independent exemplar. The identity of the author and the dating of his work remains uncertain, but it was begun in the early years of the first century A.D. and has strong connections to Hermetic astrological writings. The Astronomicon is joined here by the FIRST EDITION of the Aratea. It was the main source of Greek astronomy during the Middle Ages. Most of the pages of the Aratea have been left blank, to be filled in with zodiacal and astronomical drawings, for which a table is printed on fo.66r. HCR 10707; BMC VI, 805 (IB. 28583-a-b); Goff M-203; Polain(B) 2589; IGI 6126.