Accession number
PML 125701
Creator
Abū Maʻshar, -886.
Object title
Flores Albumasaris.
Published
Auguste Veindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, .xiiij. kal[endas] Dece[m]bris .M.cccc.lxxxviij [18 November 1488].
Description
[20] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
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.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank).
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.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank).
Binding
20th-century vellum over pasteboard (21 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedows and endleaves.
Variant title
Flores astrologiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary red and yellow rubrication, capital strokes, and initials and woodcuts sporadically colored.
Provenance
Francis R. Forbes, British diplomat active in Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, inscription, Vienna, 16th May 1829 (front endleaf 2 recto) and initials (leaf a6r); Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), bookplate (front pastedown), purchased Dawson's Book Shop, 1964, donated to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
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