Shelfmark
Gb.4.18
Author
Uniform title
[Tabulae directionum profectionumque]
Title
Tabulae positionum pro variis ac diuersis poli eleuationibus, ad directiones necessario pertinentes, summa fide, cura & diligentia supputatæ, atq[ue] nunc primum in lucem editæ. / Per Cyprianum Leouitium à Leonicia.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Secunda pars tabularum directionum
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Augsburg] : Excudebat Philippus Vlhardus Augustae Vindelicorum, in plaea templaria Diui Huldrichi., Anno domini 1551. Mense Octobri [- Nouembri]. [October-November 1551]
Physical description
[692] p. : tables ; 25 cm. (4to.)
Note
These astronomical tables were first published by Regiomontanus in Nuremberg in 1475 as 'Tabulae directionum profectionumque, non tam astrologiea iudiciariae'; this edition is one of several edited and added to by later editors. See Giuseppe Bezza, 'Representation of the skies and the astrological chart' in 'A companion to astrology in the Renaissance' edited by Brendan Dooley (Leiden: Brill, 2014), p. 70.
Note
Additional title-page on leaf AAaaa1: Secunda pars tabularum directionum, continens ascensiones obliquas ad plure eleuationes poli extensas, vnà cum suis tabulis positionum particularibus, adiecta tabula differentarum ascensionalium, & tabula positionu[m] generali, vsq[ue] ad .81. grad: latitudinis, nunc primum in lucem ædita. Autore Cypriano Leouitio à Leonitia. Both portions have separate colophons.
Note
Imprint information taken from colophon.
Note
Pages unnumbered.
Note
Signatures: AA4-ZZ4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Zzzz4, AAaaa4-SSsss4; AAaaaa4-ZZzzz4, AAAaaa4-EEEeee4.
Citation/references note
Adams, R291
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page.
Binding
Seventeenth century limp parchment case; tawed leather thongs used to sew the folded parchment to itself on front and rear; two sewn bands; yap edges, now flattened; deckled edges; title written in ink on head edge; vellum stub with ?fifteenth century hand at rear.
Copy-specific note
Two leaves signed P bound in at the front of the volume bearing a list of errata from both the 'Problemata' and the 'Tabulae' of Regiomontanus.
Copy-specific note
Copious annotation in an early italic hand on title-page.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Dd.6.9, Fd.6.9.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astrology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Ephemerides Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Leowitz, Cyprian, 1524 - 1574 editor.
Added entry--name
Ulhart, Philipp, ? - 1567 or 1568 printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Augsburg
Language code
lat
Identifier
B47008