Aureus hic liber est : non est preciosior ulla ge[m]ma kalendario ...
Alternate Title(s):
Avreus hic liber est
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
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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-93Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00093000Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M37455BAC 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:
Calendar -- Early works to 1800. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.