Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi.
With the gloss of Georgius de Monteferrato.
Venice: [Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco] for Georgius de Monteferrato, 28 Jan. 1500/01.
4to. A-E4 F6. [1], 2-26 leaves.
Woodcut diagrams and initials.
ISTC ij00421000; GW M14661; Goff J421; BMC V 566 (IA. 24536).
| GIP number: | J25 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian R.6.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | Bound as the fifth item with five early 16th-century Italian imprints: (1) Gauricus, Lucas, ed., Tetragonismus. Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa, 28 Aug. 1503; (2) Arnoldus de Villa Nova, ed., Computus ecclesiasticus et astronomicus. Venice: Bernardino dei Vitali, 3 Feb. 1501; (3) Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus noviter impressum. Venice: Bernardino dei Vitali, 17 Feb. 1501; (4) Ritius (Ricius), Augustinus, De motu octave sphere. Trino: Giovanni Giolito de’ Ferrari, 10 Sept. 1513; (6) Chrisogonus, Federicus, Speculum astronomicum. Venice: Lazarus de Soardis, 29 Nov. 1507. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “O.9.5”. |
| Binding: | Italy, 17th/18th-century parchment, gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves (all items in volume); green silk bookmark. Size: 200 x 153 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 191 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
