Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476, Aureus hic liber est , 1476
- Title(s):
- Aureus hic liber est : non est preciosior ulla ge[m]ma kalendario ...
- Additional Title(s):
Avreus hic liber est
Calendarium- Published/Created:
- [Venice] [Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein], 1476.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (4to)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0101Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3284595
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN: For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
One of the first books to have a separate title page, a woodcut title border, and an imprint date given in Arabic rather than Roman numerals. See Jeremy Norman's historyofinformation.com website.
Page [1]: Aureus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulla Gẽma kalendario: quod docet istud opus ... Hod Ioannes opus Regio de Monte probatum composuit: tota notus in Italia. Quod Ueneta impressum finit in tellure per illos inferius quorum nomina picta loco. 1476. Bernardus Pictor de Augusta, Petrus Loflein de Langencen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta.
Unsigned; [a]⁸ [b]¹⁰ [c]¹⁶ (includes leaves [19] and [32] which are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together).
Woodcuts: ornamental leafy woodcut border around title; ornamental foliated initials; [10] p. of black-and-white woodcut diagrams of lunar eclipses for the years 1475-1530, hand-colored in (faded) yellow; p. [38] contains a large volvelle (intact), with woodcut floral and star designs on center wheel and background corners; [3] full page astronomical diagrams for calculating the hour using the angle of the sun; articulated brass pointer fastened to diagram on last page.
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V:243 (IB. 20481)
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13776*
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-93
Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00093000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M37455
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0101: Imperfect: leaf [32] only. With diagrams: "Quadrans horologii horizontalis" (recto) and "Quadratum horarium generale" (verso). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.Calendar -- Early works to 1800.Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Volvelles
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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