In iudiciis astro[rum].

Accession number:

PML 34926

Author:

Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063

Published:

Venice : Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1485.

Description:

[4], 1-152 leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31.5 x 21.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1938.

Notes:

Collation: [1]⁴; a-t⁸: 156 leaves.
Colophon (leaf t8r): Finit feliciter liber co[m]pletus in iudiciis stella[rum] que[m] co[m]posuit albohazen Hali filius abenragel: bene revisus [et] fideli studio eme[n]datus p[er] dominu[m] Bartolomeu[m] de Alten de Nusia germanu[m] artiu[m] [et] medicine doctore[m] excellentissimu[m]. Impressus arte [et] impe[n]sis Erhardi Ratdolt de Augusta: regna[n]te Johanne Mocenico duce Venetiaru[m] Anno dominice incarnationis d[omi]ni .1485. quarto nonas iulii Venetiis.
Edited by Bartholomaeus de Alten. Translated by Aegidius de Tebaldis and Petrus de Regio.
ISTC records author as Haly, filius Abenragel (Albohazen).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist author name form: Hali.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 19.2 cm
PML copy on vellum.
Printed in type 6:76G.
Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Preclarissim[us] liber co[m]plet[us] in iudiciis astro[rum]: que[m] edidit albohazen Haly filius abenragel q[uem]felicissime incipit: [et] primo prohemiu[m] in ipsu[m] librum.
Woodcut initials. Geometric line diagram on leaf q1v.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled brown morocco with Austrian arms over heavy paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Decorative paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Georg Ratzenberger (d. 1537), signatures (leaves [1]/1r, a1r, and t8v); perhaps Vienna, Austrian National Library, binding and shelf mark label: 15. E. 13. (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Orioli, April 1938.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books