Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi.
Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae novae planetarum. Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.
[Venice]: Erhard Ratdolt, [before 4 Nov.] 1485.
4to. 1-68 710. [58] leaves.
Woodcuts (partly printed in colour); woodcut initials.
ISTC ij00406000; GW M14654; Goff J406; BMC V 290 (IA. 20546); Bod-inc J-182; CIBN J-271; BSB-Ink I-503.
| GIP number: | J23 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.41 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | Formerly bound as the first of two incunabula, the second item being Alliaco, Petrus de, Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 2 Jan. 1490 (A46). The two items rebound separately in 1955 (see Binding). |
| Provenance: | John Ratcliffe (1707-1776), book collector: lot 1357 in Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana (1776). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter for £0.12.0 at the Ratcliffe sale according to the annotated British Library copy of the Ratcliffe sale catalogue (shelfmark 822.d.6). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.10.42”. |
| Binding: | England, quarter tan goatskin, marbled sides, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Jan. 1955, replacing an 18th-century quarter sheep binding, marbled paper sides (original black leather title labels mounted on new front pastedown); binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 200 x 143 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 193 x 136 mm. |
| Annotations: | On leaf 1/1r the title “de sfera”; zodiac and planet names added to the woodcut on leaf 1/2v; very occasional marginal annotations in an early hand. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
