Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Abiosi, Giovanni, active 15th century

Title:

Dialogus in Astrologie defensionem cnm[sic] Uaticinio a diluuio vsq[ue] ad Christi annos. 1702. Ioannis Abiosi Neapolis Regni Ex balneolo mathematicarum professoris Artium [et] Meditine Doctoris.

Alternate Title(s):

Dialogus in Astrologie defensionem cum Vaticinio a diluvio usque ad Christi annos 1702

Published / Created:

[Venice] : [Franciscus Lapicida], [20 Oct. 1494]

Physical Description:

[38] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0734
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

With a 7-line poem by Domicus Palladius Soranus on the last leaf.

Title from caption on first leaf.

Dedication at head of title reads: Ad inuictissimum ac potentissimum bello et prudentissimum Sicilie Regem Alfonsum.

Imprint from Goff.

Colophon reads: Finit opus Dialogi ac vaticinij compositum per Peritissimum Doctorem Ioa[n]nem Abiosum Anno Christi. 1492. Transmissum tamen Ac directum Inuictissimo Regi Alfonso. Die quarto Iunij. 1494. Et Impressu[m] Uenetijs Die. 20. octobris 1494. Per Magistrum Franciscnm[sic] Lapicidam in contrata Sancte Lucie.

Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ (e6 blank).

Chancery quarto, 44-49 lines; area of text: 162 x 112 mm. With a few ornamental woodcut initials (leaves a1-c5) and initial spaces with guide-letters (leaves c6-e1); without foliation and catchwords.

Includes 4 schematic diagrams (leaves a5v, b8v, c5r, and d3v) and one almost full-page woodcut illustration (144 x 97 mm.) on the title leaf: Astrologia on her throne.

Text of line 19 of leaf a2v varies, may begin "Demo[n]stratio" or "QUuonia[m]"--GW

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00008000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A8

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 24*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0734: Imperfect: title leaf only, with full-page woodcut. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Astrology -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)

Contributors:

Palladius, Domicus, Soranus, approximately 1460–approximately 1533. | Lapicida, Franciscus, active 1494, printer.