COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233102940
Reference Number:
18025.1
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
Aureus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulla / Ge[m]ma kalendario: quod docet istud opus. ...
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Calendarium. 1476
Creator:
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Maler, Bernhard, active 1476-1478
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Löslein, Peter, active 1476-approximately 1487
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1476
Publication Details:
Venice: Bernhard Maler Pictor, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein
Page/Sheet:
Title page [a1]r
Image Sequence Number:
a001r
Description:
The first book to have a separate title page, with title, author, place of publication, imprint date given in Arabic rather than Roman numerals, includes printer's names. Ornamental leafy woodcut border of five separate pieces around title verse. Initial 'A'. Title, author and printer's names from verse, which reads in full: Aureus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulla / Ge[m]ma kalendario: quod docet istud opus. / Aureus hic numerus: lun[a]e: solisq[ue] labores / Monstrantur facile: cunctaq[ue] signa poli: / Quotq[ue] sub hoc libro terr[a]e per longa regantur / Tempora: quisq[ue] dies: mensis: & annus erit. / Scitur in instanti qu[a]ecunq[ue] sit hora diei. / Hunc emat astrologus qui uelit esse cito. / Hoc Ioannes opus regio de monte probatum / Composuit: tota notus in italia. / Quod ueneta impressum fuit in tellure per illos / Inferius quorum nomina picta loco. / .1476. / Bernardus Pictor de Augusta / Petrus loslein de Langencen / Erhardus ratdolt de Augusta.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Astronomy--Tables--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Calendar--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Charts, diagrams, etc--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Ephemerides--Early works to 1800
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Woodcut (process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Italy: Veneto: Venezia: Venice
Item Height:
292 mm
Item Width:
218 mm
Provenance:
Apponyi, Antal György, gróf, 1751-1817, former owner
Provenance:
Apponyi, Anton, graf, 1782-1852, former owner
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Notes:
Bound with: Albertus Pighius, 'Albertus Pighius Campensis De aequinoctiorum solsticioru[m]que inuentione' (Paris: [Conrad Resch and Pierre Vidoué, 1520]).
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
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