Flores Albumasaris.

Accession number:

PML 158

Author:

Abū Maʻshar, -886.

Published:

Auguste Veindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij [18 November 1488].

Description:

[20] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNPM

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c3v: Opus floru[m] Albumasaris explicit feliciter. Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis viri solertis eximia industria: [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venetijs: nu[n]c Auguste Vindelico[rum] excellit nominatissim[us] .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 8:90R, and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-b⁸c⁴: 20 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
For the translator see F.J. Carmody, Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in translation (Berkeley, 1955), p.92 (CIBN).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm. NNPM
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank). NNPM

Binding:

20th-century English gold-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Bradstreet's for Morgan (unbound when purchased from Bennett). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. NNPM

Variant Title:

Flores astrologiae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 18th/19th-century bibliographical note below half-title (leaf a1r). NNPM

Provenance:

Richard Bennett (1849-1930), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books