Shelfmark
Gb.2.15
Author
Collective uniform title
Works. 1551.
Title
Claudii Ptolemæi Pelusiensis Alexandrini omnia quæ extant opera, præter Geographiam, quam non dissimili forma nuperrimè ædidimus: summa cura & diligentia castigata ab Erasmo Osualdo Schrekenfuchsio, & ab eodem Isagoica in Almagestum præfatione, & fidelissimis in priores libros annotationibus illustrata, quemadmodum sequens pagina catalogo indicat.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Omnia quae extant opera
Varying form of title
Other title: Almagest
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basiliæ : in officina Henrichi Petri, mense martio, anno M. D. LI. [1551]
Physical description
[88], 447, [1] p., 1 folded leaf : ill. ; 32 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Main body of text is printed in two columns.
Note
Woodcut printers' device as title-page vignette and on verso of final leaf; historiated initials; woodcut mathematical diagrams throughout.
Note
Full imprint details taken from colophon.
Note
Signatures: [double sword]6, *6 (*5 numbered *4 in error), a6-d6, e4-f4, A6, B2, C6, D4, E6-G6, H8, I6-Z6, Aa2, Bb4, Cc6-Ff6, Gg2, Hh6-Pp6. Qq4, Rr6. With some possible cancels.
Formatted contents note
Contents: (from verso of t.p.) Almagesti seu Magnæ compositionis mathematicae opus, / à Georgio Trapezuntio tralatum, lib. XIII -- De iudicijs astrologicis, aut, ut vulgò vocant, Quadripartitæ co[n]structionis, lib. IIII / Quoru[m] priores duo à Ioachimo Camerario Latinitate donati sunt ... -- Centum sententiæ, quod Centiloquium dicunt / à Iouiano Pontano versæ -- Inerrantium stellarum seu fixarum significationes / per Nicolaum Leonicum traductæ -- Procli Diadochi Hypotoposes astronomicarum positionum, qu[ae] est omnium, qu[ae] in Almagesto demonstrantur, epitome & compendium, quod ad reminiscentiam conducet plurimum / Georgio Valla Placentino interprete.
Citation/references note
Adams, P2208
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso.
Provenance
Possibly from the library of John Harrison, Head Master at Eton 1630-1642, according to the card catalogue record.
Binding
Seventeenth century limp vellum case; green sewn end bands; ?orange stained edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dg.3.10.
Subject
Geography, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Petri, Heinrich, 1508 - 1579 printer.
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basle
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46940