Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati....
Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati. Marci Manilii astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phaenomena Germanico Caesare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem phaenomenon fragmentum Marco T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena graece. Theonis commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phaenomena graece. Procli Diadochi Sphaera graece. Procli eiusdem Sphaera, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Venice : Aldus Manutius, Romanus, June and 17 Oct. 1499.
Uniform title
Alternative title
Astronomicorum libri octo integri.
Date
June and 17 Oct. 1499.
Call Numbers
RB/LQ0002/S
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Language
- Latin
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
2 pts ([368], [384] p.) : ill. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Venice : Aldus Manutius, Romanus, June and 17 Oct. 1499.
Date Published
June and 17 Oct. 1499.
Subjects
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati. Marci Manilii astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phaenomena Germanico Caesare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem phaenomenon fragmentum Marco T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phaenomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusd...
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.
Linacre, Thomas, 1460-1524.
Rufus, Sextus.
Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D.
Negri, Francesco, 1452-approximately 1523.
Aratus, Solensis. Phaenomena.
Manilius, Marcus. Astronomicon.
Theon, of Alexandria, active 364. Commentaria in Aratum.
Proclus, approximately 410-485. De sphaera.
Notes
General note
Collection of works sometimes known as the Scriptores astronomici veteres.
Title from contents leaf.
Edited by Francesco Negri (Franciscus Niger).
Imprint from colophons, which read: Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani mense Iunio. MID (pt. 1, leaf 2k8r); Venetiis cura, & diligentia Aldi Ro. Mense Octob. MID (pt. 2, leaf T8r)
Some selections are in verse.
Rare Books copy at RB/LQ0002/S: Copy is imperfect, comprising signatures G-K only (Arati vita; Fragmentum Arati Phaenomenon per Germanicum in Latinvm conversi; Fragmentum Arati Phaenomenon). Initial capital supplied [by a former owner?] in blue and red on leaf G1v; other capitals not supplied. Monogram at foot of G1r. Bibliographical notes in Itali...
Citation / References Note
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 560
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 9981
ISTC, if00191000
Kaplan, H.G. A first census of incunabula in Australia and New Zealand, 213
Language note
Text chiefly in Latin with some words and phrases in Greek; the Phaenomena of Aratus with Theon's commentary and the Sphaera of Proclus are in Greek.
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RB/LQ0002/S
Record Identifier
74VMl4zlxDey
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MMS ID
991003464829702626
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