Sphera mundi cu[m] tribus commentis nuper editis vz. Cicchi Esculani, Francisci Capuani de Manfredonia, Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.

Accession number: 
PML 370
Author: 
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Published: 
Impressum Venetiis : Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaquam, MCDXCIX Decimo Calendas Novembres [23 October 1499].
Description: 
150 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, diagrams ; 32 cm. (folio)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf o6r).
Printed in Bevilaqua's types 13:57G, 18*:82R, 21:85G, 22:120G, and 23:112R.
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁸; e-o⁶; p-z &⁶ [us]⁴: 150 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Leaf d5 recto: an illustration indicates "zona i[n]cognita."
Leaf [us]4v: Theorice nove planetarum cum commento.
Includes Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum.
Commentary to Sphaera mundi by Cecco d'Ascoli, Franciscus Capuanus, Jacobus Faber Stapulensis; commentary to Theoricae novae planetarum by Capuanus.
ISTC, Goff, and BMC consider as a single work; GW and BSB-Ink considers variant as secondary edition.
For variants see CIBN and Hillard. Copinger mentions a copy from a Hoepli catalogue (1893), apparently with 146 instead of 150 leaves (ISTC).
Woodcut diagrams and initials.
PML copy lead dimensions: 31.2 x 20.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half-leather over original beach boards (33 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Peter Franck, 1930. Original paper pastedowns. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Johann Faber, Bishop of Vienna (1478-1541), donation inscription signed by Jacob Schwartz, Bishop of Vienna (leaf [us]3r) and printed donation statement giving books to Collegium Trilingue St. Nikolaus, 1540 (front pastedown); Vienna, Imperial Library, abraded ink stamp (leaf a1r), books acquired from St. Nicolaus; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 152, 8/5/96 and price code: wo/-/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Wooden boards (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books