Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi
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Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi

Simon Bevilaqua, 1499

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Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi
Simon Bevilaqua, 1499
JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. c.1230-1240). Sphaera mundi. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 23 October 1499.

The fundamental astronomical textbook of the later Middle Ages. This edition is sometimes found without the four leaves of text by Capuanus and Puerbach, as here; GW distinguishes a separate issue: GW M14633. H 14125*; [not H]C 14125 (var, as here); BSB-Ink I-512; BMC V 524; Bod-inc J-189; IGI 535; Klebs 874.26; Essling 263; Goff J-419; ISTC ij00419000.

Chancery folio (293 x 205mm). 146 leaves (of 146; not including 4 leaves of Capuanus and Puerbach present in some copies). Two large woodcuts of an armillary sphere, other woodcut diagrams throughout, small woodcut initials, Bevilaqua’s woodcut device (some dampstaining and spotting, occasional wormholes). Modern brown morocco (very tightly bound). Provenance: acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal, New York, 1 April 1958.

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